Wednesday, November 14, 2012

AAPL: 8 Reasons The iPad Mini Launch Should Have Failed

8 Reasons The iPad Mini Launch Should Have Failed
by Jason Schwarz

During Apple's (AAPL) iPad mini event, CEO Tim Cook displayed a informational slide that showed Q2 2012 iPad unit sales exceeded the i (ndividual PC shipments of all vendors including Acer (ASIYF.PK), Dell (DELL), Lenovo (LNVGF.PK) and HP (HPQ). Cook took his iPad vs. PC message a step further on the earnings call when he said, "We continue to be very confident that the tablet market will surpass the PC market...When you look at the size of the PC market, there is an enormous opportunity for Apple there. Pretty much each quarter you see 80 to 90 million PC's being sold. And so we do think that the iPad and the iPad mini and the iPad 2 will all be extremely attractive offerings for people in lieu of PC's." read more »

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