It seems that many of the negative forecasts on the stock of the iPad miniRetina they have ended up not being fulfilled. Analysts claimed that there were component supply problems that would hinder the availability of units for consumers until 2014. Now a report from the production chain in Taiwan assures that in November 4 million units have been shipped.
Digitimes has probed their contacts in the bitten apple production chain. Despite having been available only since mid-November, this month they have ordered more units than the first generation ordered in the same month last year.
The first iPad mini also had some problems supply that made their sales not as strong in their exit. It was expected that from its departure at the end of October until the end of 2012 10 million units would be sold, finally the figure approached 8 million.
With this year's model, in less than 15 days 4 million units have traveled to the stores and we still have December.
Your display supply problems were true. The Difficulty creating a 7,9-inch Retina display it is higher than creating a 9,7-inch with the same resolution. Even so, it is clear that solutions have been found and that the flow of shipments is constant even if it is not at full throttle. Therefore, more pessimistic omens they have lost consistency.
If we wanted to buy an iPad mini Retina right now through your online store, it would get us home within a period of between 5 and 10 days, both here and in the United States. For the collection in store, some shortage problems of the cheapest models were detected in their country of origin, but with a trip to an Apple Store a little further away this was solved.
In short, Digitimes points out that the results of the second generation will be higher than those of the first in the last quarter of its year of exit. The iPad Air is also outperforming its predecessor and its distribution is really stable given that it was prepared with a lot of time.
Source: Digitimes