In the tech world, there is not much time to rest on your laurels. With the iPhone 4S flying off shelves, it’s time to turn our attention to the next big thing on the horizon: the iPad 3. The third-generation Apple tablet could appear early next year, according to a Friday report.
One Wall Street analyst says Apple is pumping up iPad production during the fourth quarter by about a million units. That increase is viewed as a sign the iPad 3 is already in the works – perhaps unveiled in early 2012.
“We are now seeing 600,000 to 1 million iPad 3 builds showing up on the plan for the fourth quarter of calendar 2011,” Susquehanna Financial analyst Jeff Fidacaro told the Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital. Apple has expanded iPad production to 12 million to 14 million units, up from 11 million to 13 million, he said.
If we were to speculate when the iPad 3 might appear, Apple introduced the iPad 2 in March of 2011. However, as in the case of the iPhone 4S’ October unveiling, the tech giant’s calendar is not as rigid as in the past.
