Retina version of iPad mini or postponed to 10 months after mass production - Sina

SAN FRANCISCO, April 29 morning news, the China Taiwan KGI Securities analyst Kuo Ming-Ikegami Sunday released a research report that the screen production problems led Apple can not mass production in October this year, the second-generation iPad mini tablet.

Kuo Ming-Chi said in the report, called the iPad mini is difficult to mass production in October this year, because it is difficult enough pixels to conform to the definition of the retina screen stuffed into the 7.9-inch display.

In view of the problems in these rumors, Kuo Ming-Chi that Apple may launch a cheaper iPad mini as a transition, in order to boost sales, and to resist the challenge of low-cost competitors. He believes that low-cost iPad mini will be priced at between 199-249 U.S. dollars.

In his view,

Apple can use a variety of ways to reduce the manufacturing cost of the iPad mini. He suggested to remove the rear camera, built-in storage space to 8GB, and simplify the production process of the metal shell, or the use of more high-end technology to manufacture the A5 processor.

specific to the full-size 9.7 inches iPad, Kuo Ming-Chi is still expected Apple will launch this fall, the fifth generation of products, and similar to the iPad mini frame design. He expects the full-size iPad sales will not increase substantially because this product provides the user experience with the iPad mini is not much difference.

“We believe that with the exciting new product launch, Apple will continue to maintain a competitive advantage in the tablet market for a long time.” he said, “but with the product release pushed back and competition heats up Apple iPad supply chain in order to achieve significant growth in the fourth quarter of 2013. “

Kuo Ming-Chi on Sunday released another report said that Apple will launch this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on a new generation of MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. He predicted that Apple will continue to sell non-retina screen and is equipped with a CD-ROM old MacBook Pro, there are still a lot of demand because of the high Internet penetration in emerging markets.

Kuo Ming-Chi last year, the first disclosure of a number of major adjustment of the Apple product line, including no longer develop 17-inch MacBook Pro, as well as sales of both the old and the new MacBook Pro. He also used to accurately predict Apple last fall’s entire product line, including after the new design of the iPod Nano, and equipped with high-speed processor and lightning interface of the iPad. Face supply shortages few months before in a new generation of iMac all-in-one computer, Kuo Ming-Chi also predicted ahead of this problem. (Ding Hong)