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Chinese manufacturers catched leaders and went ahead of iPads
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    Apple has reportedly cut its shipments of the iPad mini to between 10-12 million units for the second quarter of 2013, according to industry sources. The figure is based on shipment information given from multiple sources who provide various components for Apple's iPad mini.

    The decrease may be as high as 20% on month during April, the sources noted, and may continue to slightly decrease throughout the quarter to bring total shipments of the iPad mini to as low as 10 million units during the quarter.

    Sources noted that Apple's cut is because of increased competition from various 7-inch Android tablets.

    Apple recently adjusted shipment estimates for its iPad and iPad mini products in 2013 to 33 million and 55 million, respectively, said the sources.

    Things seems not good.

  • "Things seems not good."

    for apple(s)! not for oranges and the rest of us ; ) i tried a few of these and the expandability,i/o's and computing power for the price is simply unbeatable indeed apple would seriously need to reconsider their act to stay afloat in the future.

  • Upstream sources in the iPad mini supply chain expect a 20-30% decline in shipments for the device during the second quarter of 2013 due to lacking demand in the market.

    Same shit

  • Apple has reportedly stopped placing component orders for its Mac series products recently and related upstream suppliers so far have not yet received any word about when the US-based vendor will resume its orders, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.

    The sources revealed that Apple's Mac orders to the supply chain dropped to almost nothing after the Lunar New Year holidays. Apple had high hopes for its Mac product lines and placed aggressive orders at the end of 2012; however, the company is now badly affected by the decision.

    Hmm.

  • Why is there never GPS in Chinese 10" tablets?

  • Why is there never GPS in Chinese 10" tablets?

    Because people do not use GPS in China, I guess. Hence in integrated solutions GPS support is usually absent.

  • China Business says Apple has rejected 5-8 million iPhones from Foxconn because they weren't built well enough (read - because they can't sell them at all).

    News become better and better.

  • LG Display’s net income for the quarter was $3.1 million, according to the Associated Press, which cited Hanwha Securities as estimating that LG Display’s iPhone screen sales had fallen by 42 percent, compared with the quarter before, while iPad screen sales fell by 31 percent.

    Things are not good.

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  • Samsung Electronics, currently the world's largest smartphone vendor, has continually downwardly adjusted its shipment targets by 10-20% during the past two quarters, causing Taiwan-based supply chain makers to worry about decreased orders from Samsung due to its slipping global smartphone market share, according to those Taiwan-based makers.

    Apple seems to be not alone now :-)

  • Disappointing sales of higher-end smartphones might have a negative impact on Siliconware Precision Industries' (SPIL) sales performance during the second half of 2013, according to market sources.

    Suppliers of ICs for use in smartphones, particularly high-end models, are holding unpackaged chips due to a slowdown in end-market demand, the sources indicated. SPIL will likely report lower-than-expected revenues for the third quarter as its mobile-chip customers delay orders, the sources said.

    Seems like high marginal products sales by Samsung and Apple have issues.

  • Apple's iPad shipments are expected to drop to only 10-12 million units in the third quarter, down from the company's announced 14.6 million units...

    Of second-quarter shipments, 10-11 million units were iPad minis and 3.6-4.6 million units were 9.7-inch iPads, the sources estimated.

    In the second quarter, iPad's share is estimated to have dropped to about 30-35%.

  • The new Nexus 7 looks interesting.

  • It was bound to happen, after a certain level of functionality and feature set are achieved people won't be upgrading every year for a little bigger screen etc

  • It was bound to happen, after a certain level of functionality and feature set are achieved people won't be upgrading every year for a little bigger screen etc

    Right now it is not very big problem. As screen resolution is still increasing, same is happening for RAM and CPU. Big problem is chinese manufacturers who enter all markets, sometimes under local brands or chains own brands.

  • The company said on Tuesday that its revenue from China fell 14% year-on-year to $4.6 billion in the quarter ending June 29. The figure looked even worse on a quarterly basis, down 43% drop from the previous and marking the first time that revenue decreased in those three sales regions

    And all this despite all major media playing for Apple and trying to fully ignore guys who made all this damages.

  • In addition to Allwinner, China-based Rockchip also has entered the tablet supply chains of Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Toshiba and is the one of the potential partners of Asustek and Acer.

    Facing competition from China IC designers, Qualcomm and Nvidia have seen weaker shipments. Nvidia is even reportedly considering launching own-brand Tegra-5-based tablets, the sources noted.

    Via: http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20130814PD204.html

  • A number of branded smartphone vendors have recently reshuffled the top management of their operations in China as they are struggling to stay afloat in the country's smartphone industry amid the rapid rise of local brands, according to industry sources.

    Among international players, the lackluster performance of Nokia and BlackBerry might be caused by the low popularity of Windows Phone and BlackBerry platforms in China, while slumping sales of Android phones offered by Sony Mobile, LG and HTC in China might be blamed on their pricing strategies and their cooperation relationships with local telecom carriers, commented the sources.

    Additionally, while struggling in the mid-range to high-end Android segment, HTC, Sony Mobile and LG have been reluctant to step into the sub-CNY2,000 (US$327) segment, further weakening their competitiveness in the China market, added the sources.

    Via: http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20130816PD207.html

  • Android models accounted for 97% of the second-quarter smartphone shipments in Taiwan, followed by Windows Phone models with 2% and iOS ones with 1%,

    Hmm.

  • The world is still Android's oyster. Strategy Analytics estimates that the OS has crossed the symbolic 80 percent mark, reaching 81.3 percent of smartphone shipments by the end of September. Not that Google was the only company doing well -- Nokia's strong US sales helped Windows Phone grow to 4.1 percent of the market, or nearly double what it had a year ago.

    Strange, Windows Phone must have died long ago according to analytics :-)

    IC foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) capacity utilization of its 28nm processes has fallen to 70% due to a slowdown in orders for high-end mobile chips, according to industry sources.

    With demand for high-end smartphones staying weaker-than-expected, TSMC's 28nm chip customers have moved to decelerate their pace of orders recently. Consequently, TSMC's utilization rates for its 28nm processes have slipped rapidly over the past few weeks, the sources noted.

    Who could have thought....

  • China white-box tablet shipments reached about 25 million units in the third quarter of 2013, up 56.3% sequentially and 40.4% on year thanks to strong overseas shipments, which accounted for 80% of the total volume.

    Huh.

  • IDC estimates that Samsung's smartphone shipments saw a rare year-over-year drop in the second quarter, taking it from a lofty 32.3 percent market share down to 25.2 percent. That's still enough to give it a comfortable lead, but a shock for a company which is used to growth. The cause, analysts say, is the rapid rise of Chinese brands that cut directly into Samsung's business.

    Things happen.