“Apple is ready to sell its iPad Pro in November, but has only placed limited orders with the related upstream supply chain prior to the end of 2015 and for the first quarter of 2016, showing Apple is taking a rather conservative attitude about the sales of the product, according to sources from the upstream supply chain,” Monica Chen and Joseph Tsai report for DigiTimes.
“Currently, Apple only placed orders for fewer than 2.5 million units for the iPad Pro before the end of 2015,” Chen and Tsai report, “and the volume for the first quarter of 2016 is expected to be even lower if demand for the device during the year-end holidays is weaker than expected.”
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MacDailyNews Take: It wouldn’t be Apple if there weren’t severe supply constraints.