“A sufficient supply of cover lenses for touch panel modules will be the key for Apple and other vendors to reach their shipment goals for tablet PCs in second-quarter 2011, according to sources at upstream touch panel suppliers,” Yenting Chen and Steve Shen report for DigiTimes.
“Sales of iPad 2 are running at a rate faster than its predecessor, and Apple took delivery of 2.4-2.6 million units in March, the sources noted,” Chen and Shen report. “Based on a conservative estimate, Apple is likely to take delivery of 4-4.3 million units a month, or a total of over 12 million units, of iPad 2 tablets in the second quarter, said the sources.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Brawndo Drinker” for the heads up.]
Just to be a fly in the Apple strategy room walls since the last decade. Wish someone, someday would release the meeting minutes, would make for the best of modern business strategy lessons not found in textbooks.
With people willing to get shot in the head over an iPad 2, they should work to increase the number so each person in the country has a “shot” at one.
You forget that everyone desires Flash on their tablets so they can see the “ENTIRE” internet. So, even though only 100,000 Xooms were sold to date, there is great potential for selling gazillions more.
Uh huh. Sure. Whatever you say.
Everyone is a big number. I’ve had an iPad for a year now and don’t miss flash at all. So that’s one.
I, for one, appreciate your satirical take, LaughingBoy.
Please note that 1 gazillion is equivalent to 1000 Xoom units sold…
I remember a rumor that, should the plan succeed, Apple may one day be selling iPads by the Brazilians!
Ha! Well, I’ve been featuring Flash-based Issuu page-turning software brochures on my website for ages.
Just launched a Mobile Edition and they won’t play of course, or on the iPad either.
Sooo… farewell to the FU Flash-only Issuu, but I did like the moving pages I must say.
Time to think of a cunning replacement.
Wooooo! 50M this year!
That’s a phenomenal number and is really on the beginning.
Imagine how much that will impact the sales of cheap netbooks. Those PC makers must be running scared right now.
The real effect is going to appear at a slower rate, when the iPad will have finished creating a critical mass of tablets, that will support the next revolution in publishing. Great times!
I would like to see iPad 2 set a new world record for products sold in a three month period and beat the one set by Kinect.
“A sufficient supply of cover lenses for touch panel modules will be the key for Apple and other vendors to reach their shipment goals…”
Yeah, the “other vendors” should only need a few dozen.