Report Details iPad 2 Components Vulnerable to Shortages Following Japanese Earthquake

[MSM Hobbes]

First and foremost, to those in Japan and your loved ones... best wishes, thoughts are with you all.

As to this article... I see nothing w/in that is in poor taste - it is simply stating facts that are of interest to the subject matter, an Apple product.

Lastly, one will be coming to my house, someday,,, I'm patient.

 

[rockosmodurnlif]

please stop suggesting that I stop

I will if you stop

 

[01Shambrook]

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I, as a person that cares about the Japanese disaster and really hopes they can regain solidarity soon, would like to say that the iPad 2 just isn't that important. You can wait.

 

[Chrisdanger]

First: Whats happened in Japan is the level of disaster that we havent seen in our collected lifetimes. If you have the 499-699 to purchase an iPad, donate that to the Red Cross. I promise you'll feel better for doing that, as the tech will always be there.

Second: This is another reason we should bring these types of manufacturing jobs back to the US. It might cost more for building of these components, but the potential for "planned shortages" to build up demand (see: apple, nintendo, sony) is lessened.

Lastly: Ive tested both the iPad 2 and a Xoom recently..Both are amazing, but i'll be honest, the Xoom takes a slight lead when it comes to cool tech and OS design, something apple usually has the lead-in. Im normally an Apple guy, but in this case, I might make an exception for a wi-fi Xoom.

 

[adolfop]

oh please

Give me a break. The catastrophe in Japan is more than sad and hopefully we are all doing our part to help by donating time and or money.

In the meantime, there is nothing wrong wondering where your iPad is and if it's going to take longer to get it.

I'm happy mine is arriving on Wednesday. That doesn't make me insensitive.

 

[iDisk]

You ask Macrumors to stop because they are "insensitive" and yet you should be allowed to continue displaying your insensitivity on this subject ?

The economic impacts of the Japan crisis will have repercussions the whole world over. Many automotive manufacturers are having to shut down plants and lay workers off in the US and Canada because of a lack of parts coming in from Japan.

Are these worker's plight as bad as the plight of the Japanese people that are currently homeless ? Probably not, but it does not mean that news about their troubles should be ignored.

Yet there you are, asking for it to be ignored. There's a real human crisis going on here and it stretches way beyond the borders of a single country. News items on this crisis should not be censored. There is nothing insensitive about covering all aspects of the crisis, including economic, humanitarian and scientific aspects. Next are you going to ask censoring articles about the seismic activities that lead to the earthquake ? Marine biology articles about the effects of the tsunami in the pacific ?

Seriously. The only insensitive people are the ones that have a narrow view of the crisis and want everyone else to have the same narrow view.

There you go again running off with my comment

 

[Andy-V]

The idea that this Apple related news shouldn't be posted because it's the result of a tragic disaster is silly. Undoubtably what's happened in Japan overshadows the small detail that as a result, iPads may be delayed. But it's news that people will be affected by.

There's this sketch I saw where it has a guy coming home from work, he's a doctor and his housemate works at an ice cream factory. They've both had a bad day at work, but the doctor's bad day involved losing a patient. Does that mean that the ice cream factory worker should just shut up about having a bad day because in the grand scheme of things it wasn't as bad? Should any news about the iPad be posted when there's people in the world starving to death?

People naturally care about themselves more than people they don't know. If that wasn't true then everyone would give every little spare bit of money they had to Japan or another charity. But they don't. You can't take any moral high ground if you are sitting there on your iPad while people can't eat.

The only reason people care about Japan is because it's been in the media for the past week. People are living with worse ALL THE TIME. But that's not news so everyone just forgets. If this article is insensitive then where does it stop? Surely only when every person on the planet is 'fine' should we be allowed to care about anything other than just surviving. But no, that's an insane idea isn't it?

 

[adolfop]

Bravo!

The idea that this Apple related news shouldn't be posted because it's the result of a tragic disaster is silly. Undoubtably what's happened in Japan overshadows the small detail that as a result, iPads may be delayed. But it's news that people will be affected by.

There's this sketch I saw where it has a guy coming home from work, he's a doctor and his housemate works at an ice cream factory. They've both had a bad day at work, but the doctor's bad day involved losing a patient. Does that mean that the ice cream factory worker should just shut up about having a bad day because in the grand scheme of things it wasn't as bad? Should any news about the iPad be posted when there's people in the world starving to death?

People naturally care about themselves more than people they don't know. If that wasn't true then everyone would give every little spare bit of money they had to Japan or another charity. But they don't. You can't take any moral high ground if you are sitting there on your iPad while people can't eat.

The only reason people care about Japan is because it's been in the media for the past week. People are living with worse ALL THE TIME. But that's not news so everyone just forgets. If this article is insensitive then where does it stop? Surely only when every person on the planet is 'fine' should we be allowed to care about anything other than just surviving. But no, that's an insane idea isn't it?

Well said!

 

[SactoGuy18]

Personally, I think Apple may now face a situation with both the iPad 2 and the upcoming iPhone 5 akin to the first year of Nintendo Wii sales: too high demand and you will need a lot of luck finding one at the retail level. Even if you order one from the online Apple Store you might end up with a wait of 5-6 weeks just to get one.

As such, Apple will be forced to "make it up" to customers and accelerate development of the iPad 3 and iPhone 6 so both devices come out in early April 2012 but with far larger initial supply. Why do you think Hon Hai Precision Industry, Ltd. is preparing to open a new factory in Brazil?

 

[KnightWRX]

There you go again running off with my comment

Maybe I wouldn't have if you hadn't gone running off about this story. With the quantity of people who have told you this is a legitimate news piece, maybe you should "understand" by now just how wrong you were.

 

[Michael383]

first and foremost, to those in japan and your loved ones... Best wishes, thoughts are with you all.

As to this article... I see nothing w/in that is in poor taste - it is simply stating facts that are of interest to the subject matter, an apple product.

+1

Couldn't have said it better myself.