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iPad Mini Manufacturer Sees Weaker Demand for the Tablet This Quarter [Updated]

Reminds me the same rumors before quarter results saying the demands were slowing down for iPhone 5. Apple still outsold it.

Still, news site like macrumors continue to relay that kind of nonsense...
 
Well, pretty much everyone who wanted an iPad has gotten one by now and unless we see some awesome new features, I just don't see people ther than the crazy fanatics jumping at a new one when the current iPads run everything just fine.

Of course the sales will slip. Especially when Windows works out all the kinks and matures its App Store.

And don't forget about Android.
 
computers

20% drop? maybe some people are just getting bored with computers, getting tired of poking/staring at glowing screens all day, and charging device's batteries, generally wasting time, I think facebook is dropping in use too...(it's been linked to depression, google"computers depression" or "facebook depression"). It just BORING!
Enough with incremental upgrades...most people with a computer, already have way more capability than...i gotta go.
 
** Key Word: CONTRACTOR **

Key word here is contractor.. They don't generally get stable workloads.. Suppliers change.. especially 3rd party ones.. Not just for production reasons, but possible leaks, etc..

We've seen a lot less leaks this time around than last time.. almost all conjecture..

I would not be surprised if this was a grab for their 15 minutes to drum up business. puff
 
Chisholm said:
have we reached a level of temporary saturation perhaps? Perhaps momentarily high on consumerism?
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We're entering the Post-Post-PC Era, or what I, an aspiring analyst, am calling the Neo-Retro Era. People are becoming bored with technology, because they're discovering that their lives are no more fulfilling than they were in the 1950s. If you're wise, you'll start investing in print-media companies and brick-and-mortar bookstores, because the Internet and related technologies are a passing fad.
 
There´s just about that many people on the globe that will buy the apple products, I think, and the current pads and minis have reached most of the customers looking for these products (the rest is waiting for the next new thing). So, when apple hasn´t released a single new product for 6 months, no wonder the sales numbers are going down. Apple has to constantly feed the consumers with cool new stuff, if not the interest will drop. It´s a though wave to ride I guess.
 
"I suggest its good to question the accuracy of any kind of rumor about build plans. Even if a particular data point were factual, it would be impossible to interpret that data point as to what it meant to our business. The supply chain is very complex and we have multiple sources for things. Yields can vary, supplier performance can vary. There is an inordinate long list of things that can make any single data point not a great proxy for what is going on."

-horse's mouth
 
nunomoreira10 said:
By now almost every family has a tablet, most people are upgrading instead of buying for the first time, demand is going to be less, i guess.
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Exactly

The market is saturated

I have the old iPad 3 and its great. No need to upgrade and I've upgraded every year !
 
What is with this new trend by manufacturers who contracts dry up then producing statements that the entire industry is contracting?

The only one contracting in growth is the supplier. Look at the entire industry, it's expanding.

It's a really passive aggressive way of deflecting responsibility for your company having or will have a weak next quarter.
 
dampfnudel said:
and hopefully with 128GB. I'm waiting for my retina iPad mini 2 with an A6 or A7 and 128GB of storage. Can't wait!!!:D
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I can't imagine this will happen - the storage bump is an added differentiator between the mini and regular iPad.

You pay more for:
-A bigger screen
-More storage (32, 64, 128 versus 16, 32, 64)
-A faster chip (A7X versus A6)

Those HAVE to be the main differentiators IMO.....makes it more of a choice for consumers.

Otherwise, why not offer the same specs in two different sizes for the same price?
 
so...

Apple sold a metric planet load of iPad minis last quarter. It was Christmas. It was coming down in this quarter as it always does. Less... wait for it... demand in the economy. Goes up at Christmas. Now, people know there's a new one this year and guessing it will be Retina. So they underestimated the falloff, which is fine because they get the Retinas next. So their guess at this quarter was a little optimistic. But it's Apple! So time to put it on the ailing giant corporation about to collapse. Got it?
 
Seems that all the products are declining for this manufacturer....

I notice that all the comments here are only on the iPad mini....but no one has noted or seemed to read in the article that the same CEO made similar statements about tablets and game consoles in general:

"but CEO Jason Cheng also noted that "almost every item is moving in a negative direction" for the quarter. "Not just tablets, also e-books and games consoles"."

So if this is correct, then my take away is that the overall market is slower right now....not at all just the iPad mini.
 
Internaut said:
The news merely underlines the fact that world + dog owns a tablet and a simple incremental upgrade isn't going to sell in the really big numbers. There are still plenty of super happy iPad 2 owners out there who never saw a need to upgrade to the 3, 4 or Mini.
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Again, 48% year over year growth for the iPad last quarter. 117% growth for the tablet market. :confused:
 
Ubele said:
We're entering the Post-Post-PC Era, or what I, an aspiring analyst, am calling the Neo-Retro Era. People are becoming bored with technology, because they're discovering that their lives are no more fulfilling than they were in the 1950s. If you're wise, you'll start investing in print-media companies and brick-and-mortar bookstores, because the Internet and related technologies are a passing fad.
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Yes. In future, when you buy a computing device over the Internet, a zen monk shows up and keeps hitting you over the head when you want to get on the Internet. Then he takes away your computer. "Post-PC" he says, laughing.
 
Ubele said:
We're entering the Post-Post-PC Era, or what I, an aspiring analyst, am calling the Neo-Retro Era. People are becoming bored with technology, because they're discovering that their lives are no more fulfilling than they were in the 1950s. If you're wise, you'll start investing in print-media companies and brick-and-mortar bookstores, because the Internet and related technologies are a passing fad.
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You joke, but this is real. On the side I own a vintage arcade and game store. The throwback stuff has been doing well anyway but about two years ago I had a chance to buy out an entire warehouse full of comics. Dead tree media seemed like a bad investment so I passed. Now it would cost me double the offer just to get that inventory at all, and print comics sales are booming. Completely unexpected.
 
These stories are so silly and irrelevant. Of course demand is going to be weaker in the last quarter of a model's existence. Happens with cameras, TVs, cars, clothing (example: regular priced summer clothing usually not a big seller in Sept in most of the U.S. mainland). But no one writes about those items because, well, it's not news.

Seriously it's getting to be like the modern day equivalent of the boy who cried wolf except its the blog who cried doom.
 
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