href="http://cdn.everythingicafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/flipflops.jpg">src="http://cdn.everythingicafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/flipflops.jpg" alt="Digitimes" title="flipflops" width="300" height="300" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-23087" />/> Digitimes today is reporting that Apple has “cancelled their iPad 3 supply schedule” for the second half of 2011. If we go back to July 1st, it was Digitimes who claimed Taiwan-based companies started to prepare materials for a href="http://www.everythingicafe.com/digitimes-ipad-3-and-iphone-5-in-september/2011/07/01/">September debut of the iPad 3 and then public availability in October. Just one month later and Digitimes sources say Apple is “unable to control a certain level of supply volume.”
As Tim href="http://www.everythingicafe.com/digitimes-ipad-3-and-iphone-5-in-september/2011/07/01/">astutely pointed out back in July, any Digitimes report should be taken with a few large grains of salt. It should also be pointed out that it’s likely Apple never intended to release an iPad 3 this year, so they aren’t canceling anything.
Update: According to href="http://www.tipb.com/2011/08/12/iphone-october-7-ipad-spring-2012/">TIPB’s sources, Apple had intentions of introducing the iPad 3 this fall, only to push them to the Spring schedule due to component costs and yield rates of the 2048×1536 retina display. This ties in with tonight’s Digitimes report.
So, it looks like no iPad 3 this year folks.
Source: href="http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20110815PD218.html">Digitimes
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