For some time, production problems have made ordering the ultra-popular iPad 2 seem like a slow boat to China. Despite heavy demand for the tablet, Apple’s foreign partners have been the weak link. Friday comes word that the situation has ‘significantly improved.’
The key to improving supplies is from changes made in overseas manufacturing, according to Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu. Components for the iPad 2’s touch panels. In January, the Cupertino, Calif.-based tech giant announced a $3.9 billion investment in suppliers of unnamed components.
The increased flow of iPad 2 components could enable Apple to almost double the number of new tablets sold, shipping more than 4 million units. That would be a dramatic increase over the 2.4 to 2.5 million iPad 2s reportedly sold in March.
Earlier this year, an Apple spokesperson described iPad 2 demand as “amazing.” The company was “working hard to get iPad 2 into the hands of every customer who wants one as quickly as possible,” Trudy Muller said at the time.
Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.
7 responses to “Apple Is Making More iPad 2s Faster As Supply Problems Ease”
i will believe it when i see it. put in for a replacement of mine . took 1 1/2 weeks to get it. also work for apple reseller 20k on order usually get 60. so yeah not sure why this article exists.
This article jinxed it…… Aka read he newest article about the explosion at Foxconn
yes they are making ipad 2s faster then ever, only to get blown up, efficient system
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