“Apple may not unable to ramp up the supply of its next-generation iPads (iPad 3), which are expected to be launched at a company event on March 7, due to insufficient supply of high resolution displays, according to industry sources in the supply chain,” Siu Han and Steve Shen report for DigiTimes.
“The new iPad, which reportedly will come in 16GB and 32GB versions, will continue to be equipped with 9.7-inch panels but with a display resolution of 2048 by 1536 pixels (264ppi) …the whole supply chain has failed to substantially ramp up the supply of QXGA panels, the sources revealed,” Han and Shen report. “Shipments of iPad 3 [will] start gaining momentum in the second quarter, the sources stated.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Pre-order early (if they have pre-orders) or make plans to line up if you want to be the first one on your block with the next-gen iPad.
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Not even a 64GB model? I doubt it
It’s DigiTimes, enough said. I don’t believe Tim would release it without a significant supply on hand. The old days are over.
Ho-hum. (Yawn) Wake me when they get on stage. Otherwise, keep your hit seeking yaps shut.
+1
I’m really challenged by the concept of NOT having a 64GB model. This is a mobile device. Moving and streaming movies over wifi – when you are MOBILE and away from solid bandwidth is an awful experience (and expensive). My god – could you imagine if these movies were HD now that we’ll have a primo display?? I hope that this rumor is wrong.
Remember, the operative word in this whole “story” is RUMOR.
Here, I’ll start my own – I heard from a source who once knew someone who worked for Foxconn, who told someone who used to live in China, that the iPad 3 is going to max out at 256 GB.
Happy?
No, sorry, anything less than 512GB on board just will not make the cut.
Me personally – I’m holding out for the first 1 TB iPad. Should be just around the corner.
640K should be enough for anyone.
+∞
Usual made up tabloid nonsense from DigiTimes.
This story strikes me as very suspicious.
First, some of the largest electronics companies in the world can’t make displays for the iPad 3, despite the fact they’ve had months and months to work on it.
Second, although the displays can’t be produced today, the article tells us that in the second quarter, it will be possible to produce them. (Now how could they know that?)
Third, iPad 3’s will be available in 16gb and 32gb models. (I would have expected 32/64/128.)
No 64 GB model?!
Impossible.
I think whoever wrote this article has been playing with Eric, Stevie, and Mikey. This article obviously does not reflect reality. Apple doesn’t do things that way. Honestly, these reporters and pundits need to stay away from the delusional 3 (D3) its starting to rub off on others. 🙂
Mike Dell could use a cheap iPad 2 as an augmented reality device to get around his lack of stereoscopic vision.
Need more supply…..what a pain in the ass going to the apple store every morning to see if iPad 2s were available was.
Conspiracy theory time: AAPL has been doing well the past few days, time for some stupid rumors to knock back the stock a bit. Anyone see Cramer around lately…
DigiTimes.
I think the “Touch” part of the “See and Touch” invitation from Apple means immediate availability. High demand may result in a quick sellout though.
I just sold my AAPL stock and am going to buy up as many iPads as I can, so I can resell them at scalper’s markup!
The iPad 3 supply will initially be constrained, and in other news, water will initially be wet.
Yeah, no 64GB model… It’ll actually be 128GB since we’ll all want to store 1080p HD movies now instead of 720p and also improved apps and games that will require more storage.
No way Apple will allow the iPhone to have more storage than the iPad.
Limiting the iPad3 to 32GB is exactly what they should do if they want to users to adopt iCloud. Think about it. The success of their whole cloud strategy hinges on quick user uptake of iCloud services. Right now users overall are a little luke warm on relying on iCloud. Limiting local storage would ‘friendly-force’ users to begin adoption.