According to market research firm Gartner, Apple’s iPad is going to have a “free run” this holiday season. Competitors are still struggling with their tablets, except for Asus‘ Transformer that seems to be doing ok but not in this list because it is an hybrid. According to Gartner Apple will account for 73.4 percent of [...]
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Apple’s iPad will have no competition this the holiday season
iPhone 5 shipments beginning soon, Foxconn making 150,000 a day
September 8, 2011
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Apple‘s suppliers in Taiwan for the much-anticipated iPhone 5 are feeding the supply chain that has reached a production yield, at Foxconn alone, of 150,000 daily units. The Taiwanese publication DigiTimes reported on Thursday that volume shipments of the new Apple iPhone 5 will begin soon. Lens maker Largan Precision, touch panel maker TPK Holding, [...]
MacBook Air rivals ‘testing the water’ with 50K Ultrabook units
September 6, 2011
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Following the will of several key partners in the ‘ultrabook’ project, the initial shipments for the new thin-and-light computers will be purposely limited to 50,000 units. This new breed of ultra-thin computers that will be directly competing with Apple‘s MacBook Air, should sell well but for now the first-tier ultrabook vendors, namely Toshiba with the [...]
Apple’s manufacturers started assembling iPhone 5 for October shipping
September 4, 2011
According to the Japanese blog Macotakara, citing a Chinese source, Apple‘s manufacturer’s have started the iPhone 5 production. The Taiwan-based Foxconn and Pegatron will be in charge of the first production with Foxconn manufacturing 85 percent of the next generation iPhone and Pegatron taking care of the remaining 15 percent. The iPhone 5 however will [...]
Asus soon launching MacBook Air copycat UX21: will Apple stop them?
August 30, 2011
Soon the ultra-thin Apple‘s MacBook Air may have to face some stiff competition with the new Ultrabooks from Asus, or maybe not. Due any day from now, Asustek, the maker of Asus computers, will reportedly launch half a dozen of the new super-thin and powerful personal computers, which Intel, the promoter behind the Ultrabooks, hopes [...]
iPhone 5, still coming in September
August 3, 2011
Another day another iPhone 5 rumor regarding its release. I know lots of you are disliking the rumor mill and all this murmuring. On the other hand, we don’t report all we hear or read on the Web. We never reported that the iPhone 5 will be launched in October because we’ve always believed in [...]
iPhone and iPad manufacturer Foxconn to replace workers with robots
August 1, 2011
Foxconn, the Chinese assembler for the iPhone and iPad, revealed on Sunday that the company will soon start replacing man-power with robots. You would expect that an assembly line where one worker only performs a repetitive 3 second long action for 10 hours a day, would have some form of robotic automation already in place. [...]
September 22, 2011
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