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January 7-Inch Tablet Panel Shipments Hit Nine Million, Expected To Drive Panel Growth In 1Q13
Apple's mini Being More Popular Than iPad Not A Good Thing
Array Of Computing Interfaces That Want to Replace the Touchscreen Coming
Apple Lightning Connector Breaks Off Inside iPad mini Port
Texan Litigant Claims iPod Exploded In Her Face
Arkansas State's 'iPad Initiative' Will Require All Incoming Students To Have Apple's Tablet
January 7-Inch Tablet Panel Shipments Hit Nine Million, Expected To Drive Panel Growth In 1Q13
Digitimes' Sammi Huang and Alex Wolfgram report that shipments for 7-inch tablet panels exceeded nine million units in January, and are expected to be the main driver for panel makers' revenues during the first quarter of 2013, according to market observers, and cite research firm DisplaySearch data indicating that shipments of small-to-medium-size panels sized 9-inch and below reached 178 million units in January 2013, down 2% on month but up 29% on year. Large-size tablet panel shipments exceeded 20 million units during the time period, up 134% on year.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20130301PD209.html
Apple's mini Being More Popular Than iPad Not A Good Thing
BetaNews's Joe Wilcox says that the largely unanticipated popularity of the iPad mini outstripping the full-size iPad is a distinctly mixed mixed blessing for Apple, with the mini yielding lower margins and cannibalizing iPad sales - likely Mac sales too.
Wilcox cites NPD's David Hsieh who wrote in a blog last week that in January "Shipments of 9.7-inch tablet PC panels collapsed, falling from 7.4 to 1.3 million, while 7-inch and 7.9-inch panel shipments grew rapidly, from 12 to 14 million", also noting that Apple had planned to sell 40 million iPad minis (7.9-inches) and 60 million iPads (9.- inches) in 2013", but Hsieh says he now understands "that Apple may have revised its sales projections to 55 million iPad minis and 33 million iPads in 2013.
Wilcox notes that during Apple's earnings call in January, CFO Peter Oppenheimer acknowledged: "We saw a reduction in our iPad ASPs of about $101 year-over-year in the December quarter - and you can see that, our iPad units grew faster than our iPad revenue in the December quarter," later adding: "iPad mini gross margin is significantly below the corporate average" - and that's for Apple's second-largest revenue category.
He posits the example of a hypothetical family shopping for a new computer opting for three iPad minis ($987) and three Logitech keyboard covers ($299.85) for a grand total of $1,286.85 - or roughly equivalent to the price of one iMac or MacBook Air, and their old computer can likely still serve when desktop PC power anf features are required.
As Wilcox says, "Do the math."
For the full commentary visit here:
http://goo.gl/q1fLp
Array Of Computing Interfaces That Want to Replace the Touchscreen Coming
The Atlantic's Alexis C. Madrigal reports that over the next six months or so, we're going to see an explosion of new ways of interacting with computers, televisions, and mobile devices - many of them radical departures from the way things have been done.
MAdrigal predicts the almost all of them will fail quickly and be forgotten forever, but observes that there's a chance one of these new technologies will hit a consumer sweetspot and become enshrined in our lives like the remote control or the keyboard.
For the full report visit here:
http://goo.gl/MMWuA
Apple Lightning Connector Breaks Off Inside iPad mini Port
GearDiary's Judie Stanford asks if you'd wondered how well the new Apple Lightning connector might hold up over time, noting that when she came home from Mobile World Congress, she found a young friend had plugged the Lightning connector into her iPad mini, and the tip of the charger had broken off in the port, noting that the port space is too small for even her tiniest-tipped tweezers to fit inside; even if they could fit, there is not enough of the broken tip sticking out to grab.
That meant an online chat with Apple support.
The most ominous comment from the Apple advisor being:
"Alright, well I knew the thing was flimsy but this is officially the first time I've ever heard of it breaking off in the device!"
[Urk....... Ed.]
For the full report visit here:
http://goo.gl/lqimj
Texan Litigant Claims iPod Exploded In Her Face
In a deliciously sarcastic smackdown, The Register's Rik Myslewski report on Apple being sued by a Nacogdoches, Texas, woman who claims her iPod touch exploded in her face.
You can check it out at:
http://goo.gl/wKauC
Arkansas State's 'iPad Initiative' Will Require All Incoming Students To Have Apple's Tablet
Appleinsider's Kevin Bostic notes that just two years ago, Arkansas State University first began to experiment with the iPad in the classroom. Now come fall, in a major shift for the school and a boon for Apple's tablet, all incoming students will be required to have one.
For the full report visit here:
http://goo.gl/zBvVf
For more information, visit:
http://ittc-web.astate.edu/mobilelearn/#
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