iPad Mini Shipments May Drop 30% in 2Q13

[exfileme]

iPad mini shipments are dropping up to 30-percent, possibly due to customers holding off for the next version.

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[teh_chem]

This is a cyclical thing that's usually seen with Apple. Sure, it could mean anything, but year after year, when the current model is getting "stale," and nearing the time of a product refresh, analysts almost always make these "discoveries" and the stock tips. Then it goes up after the refreshed product is released. But the continued downward trend of the Apple stock is interesting, and probably an indication of investor confidence after more blunders than booms with the company.

 

[del35]

Ummmm, so people are not as technologically clueless as we have been led to think...

 

[house70]

They'll slap a higher PPI display and call it a miracle (like the past 3 years or so of "innovation"). Apple has become so predictable and boring, it's not even funny anymore.

 

[joebob2000]

The burning question: what will the price of the mini be after the mini 2 comes out? Will they even keep it around? They could sell a ton of them for $229 if they cut the price $100 after they intro the retina version for $329 but they might keep it where it is and just charge more for the retina version ($429?) so that is going to be the big story when it breaks. My bet is that Apple wont sell the mini any cheaper, if they keep it at all. Surely they don't want to sell cheap tablets.

 

[balister]

This is a "well duh" moment. You have the product at the end of the lifecycle, a new version of the product is in the wings, so people don't want to pay full price for something that is going to be "stale" in just a couple months when a "fresh" model comes out.

 

[jessterman21]

Put an A6 and Retina display in it, sell it for the same price, take the 7-8" tablet market by storm.

 

[edogawa]

I saw a guy the other day say he got an iPad mini just because everyone else had one...I wanted to laugh.

 

[m32]

Looks like Apple hit the wall. The wall they should've hit two years ago.