Source: www.macprices.net --- Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Apparently, the 10.5-inch iPad Pro is a go. The Taiwanese Apple watcher site recently reported that its anonymous sources inside the upstream supply chain say mass production of the new iPad began in March-April, and shipping volumes have been increasing, expected to hit 600,000 units monthly by July. Apple has a lot riding on its new tablet, whose marquee feature is shoehorning a modestly larger display into a machine with the same footprint as the 9.7-inch iPads, by virtue of narrower screen bezels. Of course there will be internal tweaks as well, such as a quad-core A10X system-on-chip, but the operative question is whether it will be enough to convince more high end iPad users to upgrade their tablet hardware. Indeed, the immediate future doesn’t appear terribly promising according to the latest report from International Data Corporation’s (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker, projecting that sales of high-end slate tablets will continue to decline at double-digit rates in 2017, with the rate of contraction slowing in the later years of the forecast period. IDC expects detachable Windows tablets to resume strong growth, albeit coming off a weaker than expected 2016 for detachable tablets. IDC has consequently reduced its overall detachable tablet sales forecast with the largest reductions coming from the United States and Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan). “Sales of detachable tablets haven’t quite met ou ...
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