Welcome and many thanks for including an international ipad forum.
I am sure their are many members whom live out side of USA so please join us and let me know what country you are from. There are some issues living out side USA in respect to Apple , one major one is that each major country has their own itunes store and can only down load from that store. This is primarily due to copy right issues so unfortunately one cannot obtain music, movies and books etc from the USA site. Most applications however are available many localised for that country, ie GPS maps food etc. Apple iphone is now number 2 in Australia just ahead of Blackbury. Nokia is number 1 so that gives you some idea Apple's market penetration here.
Apple is expected to release the ipad both wifi and 3g in Australia late May. I suspect May 24 and we anticipate it will have the same impact as it has done in USA.
So lets hear from all the International members.
Cheers Colin
About me :::
Apple user since 1978 ( Apple II was my first computer) Lived in USA 1976 - 1988
Support specialist and independent Apple solutions reseller 1993 - 2008
Apple gear:
Macbook,: imac i5 :Apple TV: 2 iphones :1 ipod touch : 2 Nano's
In car I use the Parrot MKi9200 integrated hands free system for the iphone and Ipods
( Can be used to play movies with full in car audio with iPAD)