By About this time of the year people are so busy planning New Years Eve parties and such that it’s difficult to draw attention even when the Apple iPad is involved.
Somehow, I think a recent bit of information may actually be interesting for most Apple iPad enthusiasts even though the item is sales related. The news is sales related because we’ve got word from Apple iPad part suppliers about what’s going on.
The suppliers in question are Samsung and LG Display, the companies responsible with making the screens the Apple iPad needs. According to them, production capability exists and has been met in order to ready 65 million of the Apple iPad over the following year.
Given how the Apple iPad has racked in sales of just about 10 million this year, such immense quantity means something important is going on.
My top two picks are the following; Apple plans to saturate the existing markets and drop prices to a point where they wipe out the competition, or lots of new markets will be open to the Apple iPad.
As much as I would love to see the first situation happen my money is on the international market assault for the iPad. The serious stock making is most likely related to the Apple iPad never being in stock in China.
Apart from China’s actual coverage of Apple’s tablet there are still plenty of other markets out there to hit and who knows what Steve Jobs & Co has in store for us.
The 10 million units of the Apple iPad, sold in 2010, may not be very relevant but in order to put this into perspective, both Samsung and LG struggled to have sales larger than 1 million tablets.
That sort of statistic makes it that more amazing when you consider how Jobs wants to shift 65 million of the Apple iPad next year.
