“The iPad Mini appears to be on its way to eclipsing the Retina iPad, according to NPD DisplaySearch,” Brooke Crothers reports for CNET.
“Apple had originally expected to sell 6 million iPad Minis in 2012. But that’s turning out to be a laughably low forecast, according to DisplaySearch analyst David Hsieh,” Crothers reports. “Now, Apple is asking display panel makers to ‘ship more than 12 million’ iPad Mini displays in the fourth quarter, Hsieh said in a research note.”
Crothers reports, “‘The iPad Mini apparently is selling better’ than the new iPad 4, Hsieh said in response to an e-mail query. ‘It seems people especially like the size…[it’s] lighter, slimmer and easier to carry.’ In 2013, the iPad Mini could account for half of all iPad shipments, which DisplaySearch says should reach 100 million.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Wow – just wait until the iPad mini gets a Retina display!
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Somebody needs to tell the folks who are selling their Apple shares.
Seems that the bull and bear of AAPL are fighting quite intensively .
And yet they use the FUD to push Apple stock lower to buy it up at extremely ridiculous low price now. They used a drop in target price to $700 as bad news. Hello, isn’t that about a 36% upside from this pounded down price!
I am all in now!
It’s going below $500 well before Christmas.
Wake me in the low $400’s.
Ah, the old one-trick pony is back pontificating once more! Gawd, but I would LOVE to see your stock portfolio, AP. If you’re the genius you *think* you are, there must be a couple of thousand AAPL “puts” there right now, eh? You know, the old money where your mouth is thing. Truth be told, betcha you ain’t got a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of. (Basements are difficult domiciles from which to dispose of one’s ordure, right AP?) So, you’re just throwing your crap around here and there so’s you can feel better about yourself. Still, I’d LOVE to put a wager of real money on the table with you face-to-face about your “400” scenario. Anonymity protects you from such confrontation though, doesn’t it? How truly lucky you are.
I wish I could remember the name of the person who criticized the hell out of me a few months ago for maintaining a balanced portfolio. I should have put it all in AAPL he said.
No surprise here.. ICal’d my feeling this would be the case before the mini was released….
Yes, an iPad Mini with a Retina display, Full color gamut, and A6 or variant processor- Major sales rush.
Then the form factor change for the iPad that matches the iPad Mini, Retina , A7, and a dose of IGZO.
Major thermonuclear response.
iPad mini, aka the girly pad, will outsell the iPad.
No wonder we are getting lower birth rates. Real men are an endangered species.
Ummmm… Ok, just add the phone part to the iPad Mini and we will be like China…. Just well endowed 🙂
I tried the Mini at the Apple Retail store when I picked up my iPhone 5. It feels really great. So much lighter than the full size, I can see why people are buying. I’d like to have both sizes for different uses.
The Windows Surface RT launch window and iPad mini going on sale is about a week apart. Both are new releases of a never before seen product, creating new tablet categories in their own right.
And yet Microsoft is struggling to move 100,000 Surface RT tablets vs. 26 million iPad minis for the Christmas quarter. Where are the IT doofuses who were supposed to buy the Surface RT in truckloads for corporate consumption hiding????
Corporate does not do Windows 8.
Yes, but this was supposed to be the iPad killer, the ARM tablet that had Microsoft Office installed by default so you could get in with your work merely by clicking open the built in stand.
Because the iPad with 275,000 tablet optimised apps didn’t have the one office productivity suite that corporate IT was waiting for!!!!
Cannot imagine any business buying that kludge of a kludge OS for anything serious.
Sold my iPad 2 to get a 64GB mini in black.
Best device I’ve ever used, never leaves my side.
Shorting and making a killing, although my short cover target is approaching possibly by the end of the day today. I however will not go long until capitulation which we may see shortly.
UBS price target cut is the blame for today’s nosedive. Expect more analysts to follow. Sub $500 appears to be when, not if. Don’t be fooled by the headline – iPad mini’s selling better than iPad 4 is actually bad news due to its lower profit margin.
Covered when it revisited the 505 low. Still think it’s going to break 500, but shorting is a dangerous game and am pleased with the profit.
Nice $400 stock. I stopped buying somewhere between $320-340 and sold a block at a little over $400. Hope none of you got torched buying when it was all amped up earlier this year.
Nice $400 stock and only $109 to go.
“Nice $400 stock. I stopped buying somewhere between $320-340 and sold a block at a little over $400.”
Yeah, sure. Prove it, sir. PROVE IT. Anybody can ride an Arabian stallion and profess to be Sultan here on the internet, can’t he, Agent Pee? Yeah, YOU’RE the genius, WE’RE the fools. We should ALL be more like you, huh? Damn, but it must be hard to wear a hat with your head so grandly inflated!
Been around MDN a long time, Jr. Don’t have to prove shit to a newbie or troll.
That’s strange, AP. I stopped buying somewhere between $600 and $650 and sold it at $703.
Nice $700 stock and only $190 to go.
I own both and tend to grab the mini over the new iPad 4. I love the retina screen on my iPhone and enjoy showing off pictures on the iPad 4. However for everyday, grab-and-read I honestly do not mind the non-retina screen on the mini. For everyday use I am willing to trade weight and battery for resolution. I hope if and when the retina mini arrives it is lighter and has longer battery life. I made the mistake of buying the first “new” retina iPad (the one after iPad 2) and it was the first apple devices I ever owned that felt like a step backwards.
There is no perfect solution that meets every single criteria known to man with completeness. Life is a series of trade offs. If you’re Michael Phelps you’re the king of the pool but you won’t beat Usain Bolt in a 100m dash.
Likewise with the mini. Apple made portability and lightness its touchstone sacrificing screen resolution in the process. It’s a good compromise. People are just bitching over something that’s hardly noticeable in everyday use.
In the meantime, AAPL continues it descent into hell.
Shortsighted analysts. It is better the mini take iPad share than a competitor. The margins will be fine, which is why it is priced at $329. But of course the stock took a hit because it was not priced at $249, with even lower margins. They also suggest iPhone 5 China sales will not be as good as 4S sales; they will be wrong about this too.
Apple is selling iPads…the competitors are selling cheap beer. Why beer? Because you have to be drunk to buy an iPad knockoff.
I could see sometime next year Apple making a retina display iPad mini for $329 and keeping the previous (current) version around for $269 (Similar to how Apple is keeping the iPad 2 around to attain a lower price point).
( 330 * 400 / 500 = $ 264 )
Brilliant move by Apple, not letting the other smaller tablets eat their lunch. This solidifies their leading position in the tablet market.
Mini size is the sweet spot. Add a Retina Display, and bye bye big heavy ipad! I use my Mini 10 times more than I did my iPad! It just fits!
Today I had my first look at the Windows Surface, since it’s now available in retails stores over here. It looks great, but the keyboard is unresponsive, so there’s no way I would consider getting it, as I can’t see myself writing for extended periods using its keyboard. But if the 2nd generation Surface improved the keyboard to be as responsive, say, as a MacBook Air, it would become a real contender.
Look, admit it, most Apple products of late – iPhone, iPad – took about 3-4 generations to get to a plateau of perfection. So give Microsoft’s surface about 3 years. We could have a fight on our hands. Perhaps the real battle when Microsoft brings out their Windows 9, having (hopefully) learned from their mistakes with Windows 8. Also, by then, the Surface hardware would have been refined. Apple needs some tough competition to get them to listen to customers again.
Let it be said, forever, that Steve Jobs got it wrong with the iPad Mini, as he did with many things. Apple needs to undo one of the last Jobisms — the removal of the matte, anti-glare screen from iMacs and Cinema Displays. NO ONE is saying to remove glossy screens. No. We’re just asking for an upgrade option for those people that need matte screens.