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It isn't just Apple who have misleading ads. Just about every company has misleading ads. The advetising people will write anything they think will help sell a product or service. Even the besy CEO can be fooled and too often they let something be used rather than argue. Every company should have an engineer or someone thoroughly familiar with the product to have a veto over ads. If this does not stop or at least slowdown misleading ads, the company should beput out of business, preferably by law.

What I don't understand is this, I am sure Apple knows that every country has its own implementation of 4G.

Each operates on its own band, just as 3G does.

What I don't get is, how Apple didn't work with local carriers to confirm the band used for their 4G to make sure the tablet is compatible in the first place?

The 4G models cost $130 more than its WiFi only counterpart.

A consumer, which we have already varified more tahn once don't read details, they read what catches their eyes. It says the devic eis 4G compatible. They expect that if you sell it in THEIR country of origin, it should work.

if you just bought a TV and it suppose to work with local cable providers and you pulled it out the box, only to find it has eurpoean connectors that don't work in the USA, would that not be misleading?

It's wrong. Selling a devices that simply won't work away from the USA/Canada is wrong and Apple shoudl be sued.

And as for the poster who said that others so this, name one. I can bet you, if the Samsung G-Tab for Australia is using 4G, I bet it works on their carriers network.

Here on Telstra's website for tablets - http://www.telstra.c...ts?SMSESSION=NO, I am sure the Xoom and others work on their Next G network as they call it. Yet the iPad doesn't.

So why is it being sold there if it only works with ATT, Sprint and Verizon?

This is something that should not have been missed. And yeah, if it was me I woudl want my money back or at least just exchange for the WiFI only option. What good is paying $130 extra for something I can't even use?

Apple will do anything to protect its near monopoly of the tablet market (frivolous lawsuits to shut out competition, dupe users into thinking they are getting a better product than what their competitors offer...). You can sense their desperation now that the competition has caught up and in many ways, exceeded them. iPad4 had better be more compelling than iPad3, or they are going to get left behind.

QUADICON, on 03 April 2012 - 12:40 PM, said:

I tend not to use terms like nanny state, but in this instance, it seems rather appropriate. If you purchase a $400-plus piece of computing hardware and don't have enough where-with-all to determine whether it will work where you live, I have little or no sympathy for you. If the ads and commercial has specifically stated the 4G would work in specific places where it was not compatible I could understand the uproar. As it stands, again, I have no sympathy. Governments should protect their citizens from willful harm, not from their own ignorance.