“Just weeks before Apple is rumored to launch a trio of new iPads, 12.9-inch iPad Pro stock is drying up around the world,” Joe Rossignol reports for MacRumors.
“A spot check of Apple’s online store reveals that most if not all 12.9-inch iPad Pro models are now estimated to ship in 2-3 weeks in the United States, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, and elsewhere—that’s up from a shipping estimate of 1-2 weeks as recently as last weekend,” Rossignol reports. “12.9-inch iPad Pro models are also largely out of stock or backordered by several weeks at resellers such as Best Buy, AT&T, and Verizon in the United States.”
“Lengthy shipping times can sometimes indicate that a product refresh is imminent, but in this case, the supply chain could be to blame,” Rossignol reports. “In its latest earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company underestimated iPad demand this quarter and had an issue with one of its suppliers. Cook said he does not expect the shortage to be totally resolved this quarter, and that could reasonably explain why the 12.9-inch iPad Pro is increasingly hard to find.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Tim Cook at Apple’s Q117 conference call on January 31st:
If I zoom out of the 90-day clock and look at it, we’ve got some exciting things coming on iPad. I still feel very optimistic about where we can take the product… I see a lot of good things and hope for better results, but we are still currently in this shortage issue now, and I’m not projecting to get out of that totally during the quarter. And so it will damper this quarter somewhat. But again, beyond the 90-day clock, I’m very bullish on iPad.
I own an iPad Pro 12.9-inch and I can tell you for a fact that it’s fast with the 4GB of RAM, it also has a decent but not spectacular screen. Still, aside from a pen I will never use in the first place, it has absolutely NO “pro” features… and as long as Cook is CEO it never will.
It’s also overpriced for what you get and should actually start at 64GB for the price. That’s why I bought mine slightly used for $650. The iPad is a missed opportunity for Apple, under Cook’s questionable leadership. I recommend the Surface Pro for those who want a real professional, productivity device.
I watched our I.T. people take over two hours to sort out my line manager’s failing Surface Pro last week. Tell you what, I’ll stick with my plans to buy a new iPad Pro.
So it has the pro feature of a pen, and you choose not to use it. And the problem would be?
I’ve been waiting for version 2 of the iPad pro. Can’t wait, i’ll be buying the pencil with it and POSSIBLY the new airpods.
Can’t wait!! Hoping for a true PRO version to challenge the feature of the Surface… better keyboard please!!!
I am buying two of them.
Love my iPad Pro 12.9 and use it for all but database development. There is little that I cannot accomplish with this very powerful computer. My desktop and laptops very rarely get touched. The only big complaint is printing capabilities. I need to print some documents from time to time and the lack of formatting abilities is my second of two complaints. Otherwise, Not needing the so-called “truck”.
iPad Pro and Pencil could have been purpose-built for my requirement – colorising many 100s of of legacy line artworks. Excellent tools that make the job a real pleasure.