There’s some bad news for those living outside of the United State who are waiting to buy an iPad. It looks like you’ll be waiting even longer. Apple has delayed the international launch of the iPad until the end of May, due to such high demand and short supply in the U.S.

The iPad sold 500,000 units in it’s first week, and that’s just for the WiFi model. The 3G model isn’t even out yet. We’ll see if people held out for the 3G model when it hits stores at the end of April, or if the majority of buyers went out and picked up the WiFi iPad.  Here’s the official statement from Apple…

“Although we have delivered more than 500,000 iPads during its first week, demand is far higher than we predicted and will likely continue to exceed our supply over the next several weeks as more people see and touch an iPad™. We have also taken a large number of pre-orders for iPad 3G models for delivery by the end of April.

Faced with this surprisingly strong US demand, we have made the difficult decision to postpone the international launch of iPad by one month, until the end of May. We will announce international pricing and begin taking online pre-orders on Monday, May 10. We know that many international customers waiting to buy an iPad will be disappointed by this news, but we hope they will be pleased to learn the reason—the iPad is a runaway success in the US thus far.”

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