Apple is reportedly cutting iPhone 5c production in half from 300,000 units to 150,000 units per day, according to claims by C Technology, which leaked a number of photos of the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c ahead of their launches last month. As highlighted by Unwired View, gray market pricing for iPhone 5c units has also been falling as availability has remained solid...
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IDC's cabal of statisticians, nerds and people who just love spreadsheets have handed down their latest document about the state of the tablet market. Of the 25 million slates shipped in the second quarter, 17 million of them were iPads -- giving Apple 68.2 percent of the market. Samsung came second with 2.4 million devices and Amazon third, although since the Kindle Fire maker doesn't reveal numbers, there's probably some guesswork involved there. Rounding out the top five are ASUS and Acer, although the former should expect to move up a place (or two), depending on the success of the Nexus 7 when Q3's results are released in a few months time.
Top 5 Vendors, Worldwide Media Tablet Shipments, Second Quarter 2012
|
2Q 2012 Shipments |
Market Share |
2Q 2011 Shipments | Market Share |
Q212 / 2Q11Growth |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apple | 17,042 | 68.2% | 9,248 | 61.5% | 84.3% |
| Samsung | 2,391 | 9.6% | 1,099 | 7.3% | 117.6% |
| Amazon | 1,252 | 5.0% | 0 | N/A | N/A |
| ASUS | 855 | 3.4% | 397 | 2.6% | 115.5% |
| Acer | 385 | 1.5% | 629 | 4.2% | -38.7% |
| Others | 3,067 | 12.3% | 3,668 | 24.4% | -16.4% |
| Total | 24,994 | 100% | 15,042 | 100% | 66.2& |
| Unit shipments are in thousands | |||||
[Source: Engadget]
Lenovo has announced its latest ultrabook – ThinkPad X1 Carbon – in Taiwan, adopting a carbon-fiber reinforced plastic chassis to strengthen its sturdiness, while reducing thickness.
The ThinkPad X1 Carbon features a weight of 1.36kg, a thickness of 1.88cm at its thinnest place and a 14-inch panel.
Lenovo's continued rising shipments are starting to gain the company advantages over component purchasing as well as its channel marketing. Meanwhile, the company has also been aggressively establishing new plants in countries such as Japan and Brazil, and is reportedly planning to set up plants in Germany, a country that has a rather high employee salary rate, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.
The sources noted that Lenovo is expecting to further enhance its manufacturing quality through better management and is hoping to achieve similar results to Apple, which also adopts strict quality controls over its products. With ODMs to start seeing more purchasing restrictions from Lenovo, figuring out a way to respond to the vendor's requests will become a new lesson for the ODMs
[Source: DIGITIMES]