Here's the latest sign that Apple's iPhone 6 is a juggernaut.Â
Apple is delaying plans to make a bigger iPad, Lorraine Luk and Daisuke Wakabayashi at The Wall Street Journal report [2] .
The reason the big iPad is being delayed? So Apple can focus on making more iPhones.Â
Luk and Wakabayashi say Apple had been planning to start manufacturing a 12.9-inch iPad in December. The current iPad Mini is 7.9-inches, and the iPad Air is 9.7-inches, so this is a significantly larger device.
The bigger iPad won't be made until early 2015.
Here's what a source in the supply chain told The Journal:
The top priority for the supply chain is to meet the overwhelming demand for the larger screen iPhones. The output of the 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus remains unsatisfactory. It would be challenging for display makers to split resources and spend a few months to ramp up production for a new larger screen iPad now.
Apple's bigger iPad is something of a mystery.Â
We're not really sure why Apple is going to make a bigger iPad. The bigger iPhones made sense. People wanted bigger screens. For an iPad, a bigger screen just makes it harder to use.Â
There's gossip that Apple could go a Microsoft Surface route and produce a tablet that doubles as a traditional desktop computer. But that would be a surprise because Apple has been loudly critical of the Surface . And the Surface hasn't sold particularly well.
It's possible the big iPad is a device aimed at corporations, but Apple doesn't really target the enterprise, so that too would be surprising.Â
Links
- ^ Tinhte.vn (www.tinhte.vn)
- ^ Lorraine Luk and Daisuke Wakabayashi at The Wall Street Journal report (online.wsj.com)
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