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Apple Reportedly Looking to Push Monthly iPad Production to 3 Million
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To a degree the last one is probably the weakest but I'm still not sure that the demand is there for a rear facing camera - I can see the front facing being of use with FaceTime etc but trying to keep a device weighing 1.5-1.6 pounds still to take good photo's I'm less sure of.
Adding weight to the camera makes it easier to hold steady. I would like to see the iPad II come out with three forward facing cameras. One shoots underexposed. One normal, One over.
Because it's virtually the only good tablet you can buy right now?
Everyone else's is "coming soon", or, if you read the reviews, not that great.
this may be true for the holiday season, but they will update the iPad in march or sooner hopefully
At 3 million per month, they're approaching netbook sales (which are sliding down at the moment). And sales of iPad 2 will no doubt improve on that next spring. It's amazing to think that the iPad might actually leapfrog the netbook within just one year.
iOS has been on the iPad since day one. It's getting an upgrade to a new version is all. It already stands alone as it's own device - you don't even need to own a computer. Apple will activate it in store for you and that's the last time it needs connecting to a computer.
Pfft, everyone who wants one of these things already has one. Amiright guys?
Appealing products at reasonable price points tend to sell.
Apart from the 80% of the world's countries who are still waiting for it to even be released to them.
I don't see a rear facing camera ever - this thing would look ridiculous held up as a camera - to hold this in one hand while touching the screen to take a picture/touch focus with the other would be awkward to say the least.
A front facing camera, maybe (as an optional extra) but you'd want the device on a stand, on a desk, to use facetime or the other person gets a shot straight up your nose. By the time you've done this, you might as well be on your laptop/desktop...
Apples last quarterly report, i believe it was just over 2 million, but don't quote me. That covered a period before it was available outside the US, also.
I agree. Cameras or a camera on the iPad would be absolutely ridiculous. And I'll be one of the first to say that face time will fade. I know almost nobody who uses it and almost nobody who uses such features on their computer either. I don't want to see people to talk to them on the phone. Maybe my lady friend, but that's all and infrequently.
Thank you... You should read the thread on the new iPods, people crying like school girls over the nano losing it's camera and the lesser than iPhone quality on the touches. The nano is an audio player, it doesn't need one. The touch however, is more of a pocket computer, so if you are going to put one, put a good one.
I like my iPad without the camera. I also wish I could purchase an Apple laptop without one.
Man these kills me jokes are killing me (pun always intended)
Lets compare the suicide rate to other companies that chain their workers to a desk 23 hours a day. One thing to remember, the penalty for killing yourself at Foxcon is extreme. I understand you lose three shifts pay and may or may not get time off to go to your own funeral.
The sad thing is, Apple works quite hard to insure there workers get the best treatment. It makes you wonder what the other companies do to their workers.
The real sad thing is that Apple management still thinks it's better to crank out as much hardware as possible out of China and ship it to the US than build hardware in the US.
Maybe someday they'll learn.
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I heard people are working for less in Burkina-Faso anyway. They should move their plants over there.
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I'd like to know how Apple might feel it can get the iPad to a lower tier of buyer?
Let's be honest, there is a mass of people out there who can't afford the current price.
I can see a few scenario's
1: Either a lower spec/smaller one can be made but Apple to capture the market.
2: It will just take a few years and these people with buy the 2nd and 3rd hand iPads as current users upgrade and sell them off in another year.
3: Another tablet maker will clean up with a lower cost device.
4: These people will never have a Tablet.
Let's be honest, there is a mass of people out there who can't afford the current price.
I can see a few scenario's
1: Either a lower spec/smaller one can be made but Apple to capture the market.
2: It will just take a few years and these people with buy the 2nd and 3rd hand iPads as current users upgrade and sell them off in another year.
3: Another tablet maker will clean up with a lower cost device.
4: These people will never have a Tablet.
A large number of people like them,as I do,and feel comfortable paying the current price to get one.Simple really.
Not every product fits everyone's needs/desires,though.
Man, this Foxcon thing kills me (pun intended)
Shhhhh!
Facts only confuse people.Now back to those pooooor Foxcon workers who are unable to quit their horrific jobs and find suicide the only way to get a vacation...
Right.
Since it is popular here to pronounce things un-Apple like (as for example the iPhone4)I'll chime in and say it's un-Apple like to revise an iOS device in any major way on a shorter than 12 month schedule.
And I too have no problem Ebaying my iPad when the new one comes out.The resale value makes trading up pretty affordable.
Well we ARE at 90% employment in the US...
Reality check: Over 50% of the iPad sales come in from non-US soil.
But more importantly, Foxconn is in trouble. It won't only need to please Apple, but a couple of other companies as well. Now look at how many different Apple products it need to assemble, so tell me how should this work? I mean if Foxconn works on Apple products all day long, then they simply cannot work on anything else anymore!
I tell you this. What Foxconn does is to mass produce [assemble] a large number of iPad's and then it goes on to assemble another product. And that can't always be Apple [related]. That is simply impossible.
I don't think you realise how big Foxconn is. Last number I read was 380,000 employees. The number of iPads built is a nice, big number for Apple, but for Foxconn, it is nothing. Well, not nothing, I nice fat contract that they would hate to lose, but nothing the company can't handle. Just think: If Foxconn has 380,000 employees, even if they built 38 million iPads a year, that would be 100 per employee.
And you forget that these iPads are not on top of everything else they build. If Apple sells two or three million iPads a month, that is a whole lot of netbooks and laptops that are not being sold and that need not building. Acer has already indicated that their netbook sales went down.
I'd like to see exact numbers how much an identical iPad built in the USA would cost. And then I would like to know how many of them Apple would sell.
Or maybe I do.
That number doesn't mean anything since we here are only interested in production. What percentage do you think actually works on Apple products? Don't forget cleaning, maintenance, staff and all other jobs that take people away from real production work. And don't forget that many different people work on one single iPad – they are still folding boxes by hand!
For that to happen Foxconn need to employ another 500.000 people.
I'm in interested in how apple will increase distribution, now that they've reached equilibrium (in the U.S.) between supply and demand.
They sell them at the Apple store and Best Buy. Who will be next to get them? I'd love to see them at Costco. I think they would sell a **** ton of them at Costco.
They sell them at the Apple store and Best Buy. Who will be next to get them? I'd love to see them at Costco. I think they would sell a **** ton of them at Costco.
I want the first...
I want the first iPad with iSight. If the only thing Apple does in their next hardware upgrade is add the cameras, I want it.
I love the ipad now and software upgrades aree nice, but Facetime is where it's at!
I want the first iPad with iSight. If the only thing Apple does in their next hardware upgrade is add the cameras, I want it.
I love the ipad now and software upgrades aree nice, but Facetime is where it's at!
Thought that name Katy Huberty sounded familiar...
http://seekingalpha.com/article/96803-worst-analyst-on-apple-lowers-price-target
http://seekingalpha.com/article/96803-worst-analyst-on-apple-lowers-price-target