Nobody limits supply to a quarter of what they could have sold if they hadn't limited the supply. You explain why in the last two sentences of your post. Apple didn't get to where it is by being stupid.
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Retina iPad Mini Launch Supplies Set to Be 'Ridiculously Tight' Until Early 2014
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Nobody limits supply to a quarter of what they could have sold if they hadn't limited the supply. You explain why in the last two sentences of your post. Apple didn't get to where it is by being stupid.
Agreed. This notion that Apple plans on increasing sales by shipping 10% of the numbers they could sell is just stupid.
Well I don't think the demand for the retina will be as high as the original launch. The $299 version will sell like hotcakes this holiday season, however. (IMO)
Extremely disappointed. 
Sold my iPad 2 in anticipation of the event, been waiting for the Retina Mini for a very long time
Sold my iPad 2 in anticipation of the event, been waiting for the Retina Mini for a very long time
Now I'm not sure what lesson Tim Cook said he learned from last years 27" iMac debacle. The retina mini didn't need to be announced if it's not going to be reasonably available. The air is almost as light & only $100 more. Seems Apple would be better off just having announced a cut in the mini price & launched the retina mini in March.
No, it is deliberate. Apple can't deliver on its promise. But announces new products anyway to boost investor confidence, satisfy shareholders, and raise its stock price while leaving consumers out on a limb.
not. no company wants to *not* sell devices it makes good profit on. selling is how they *make* money.
theyre supply constrained because everybody wants their stuff and they dont come out of thin air.
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'Ridiculously Tight' seems to be the new theme for product release(s) over the last year +
iMac
iPad
iPad mini
iPhone
Channel inventory / supply chain is supposedly someone's strength at Apple
yep, thats how you measure success -- wild sell-outs in days or hours. more people want apple products today than ever before. run-away, amazing success. producing the goods takes time...iphones, ipads, macbooks, macs...enormous volumes of inventory. they all require resources, facilities, time. they do not come off of trees.
no other company is shipping so many desired items. thus...supply constraint.
Right here!
Sorry. I couldn't resist. Haha.
Seriously, though. The A7 should be plenty.
more power. a7 has 2x the graphics power of the a6x though, it wasn't needed.
So perhaps Apple is starting a trend of not needing "X" chips?
I do not think that it was intentional to have tight supply in this instance, just poor logistics on the part of Apple. That, or no control over screen supply.
I believe that Apple had to stick to the usually scheduled timescale of the iPad update / release pattern. It has worked hard now to separate iPhone, iPad, iMac etc, launches over a year and had no intention of messing this up just to satisfy it's customers....
The result is, that this is not good for any conscious purchaser having to wait unit after the new year for a new iPad.
For example, they announced the new iPad in October (which is when it should be released), if the news is to be true, then most customers have to wait until January or February 2014.
That is 3-4 months into the [12 month] life cycle of the announced product, which they will invariably update again in October 2014.
Anybody who says it does not matter, does not appreciate the self imposed short shelf life of technology Apple now build's into it's ecosystem and did not buy the iPad 3 (as I did), to have a new release just 6 months later.
I am happy to buy a 128GB, cellular iPad mini to replace my WIFI only, but if I cannot get it before Christmas, I will wait until the next release.
Once bitten, twice shy...
I believe that Apple had to stick to the usually scheduled timescale of the iPad update / release pattern. It has worked hard now to separate iPhone, iPad, iMac etc, launches over a year and had no intention of messing this up just to satisfy it's customers....
The result is, that this is not good for any conscious purchaser having to wait unit after the new year for a new iPad.
For example, they announced the new iPad in October (which is when it should be released), if the news is to be true, then most customers have to wait until January or February 2014.
That is 3-4 months into the [12 month] life cycle of the announced product, which they will invariably update again in October 2014.
Anybody who says it does not matter, does not appreciate the self imposed short shelf life of technology Apple now build's into it's ecosystem and did not buy the iPad 3 (as I did), to have a new release just 6 months later.
I am happy to buy a 128GB, cellular iPad mini to replace my WIFI only, but if I cannot get it before Christmas, I will wait until the next release.
Once bitten, twice shy...
I hate this too. Some people would try to make profit from that. It doesn't seem they ready to sell but just to let people delay from buying other brands.
More likely than not, the reality is that they wanted to release both new iPads on November 1st and hit a snag on the Mini. Thus, we get a nebulous "late november" estimate.
How is this a marketing tactic? Isn't it just reality? Don't you think they would sell on Nov. 1st if they could? Or do you mean to suggest that they should have scheduled a second iPad event to announce just the iPad Mini by itself?
Excuse you, you're FUDing all over this thread.
In a totally unrelated post: I thought Samsung stopped paying people to post nonsense.
We say that now, but had Apple not announced a retina mini all the stories would be how come Google, Amazon etc. can produce high res 7" tablets but Apple can't. I don't think going another 5-6 months without retina would've been any better.
Extremely disappointed.
Same boat as you. Sold my iPad 2 32GB for a surprising $300 cash from Craigslist, was hoping to be pre-ordering a Retina Mini tonight at midnight, instead looks like I'll be waiting a whole month. Thankfully I can use my girlfriends old Mini while I wait but it really sucks not having your own games, accounts(Mail, Notes, Reminders, Bookmarks etc.), books.
Whether it was intentional or not they got me to at least go to look at the iPad Air on Nov. 1st which I wouldn't have done if I could have had the option to pre-order both tonight. Would have just gotten the Mini.