LG says they can't make enough iPad screens, Apple may need to delay launches
Once again it looks like Apple might get some heat for something that it doesn't control -- namely the supply of iPad screens which LG now warns are constrained to the point international roll-outs might need to be delayed.
Given how much Apple does on their own, we sometimes forget they're still at the mercy of other companies -- even competing companies -- when it comes to components, like LG for screens, and Samsung for chips.
Apple delayed their second wave of iPad launches by a month last May, and has just entered several more countries this weekend, but high demand and low screen supply seems to be something they can't get passed. Even if they kick things into high gear, LG CEO Kwon Young-Soo warns, they won't be able to meet demand until 2011.
[Reuters via Engadget, thanks Doug!]
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Ploy by LG to give Apple more negative attention? Probz.
@JJ
That would be idiotic; the contract for the screens must bring in a pretty good haul of crisp readies for LG
Does sound strange. Guess there is not a contract clause reference LG can be fined daily for failure to deliver on time.
JJ, can't be a ploy! They are actually saying that they (LG) do not have the capacity to keep up with Apples popularity. Positive for APPL and indifferent or negative for LG from all angles.
you mean, "...something they can't get PAST" (not "passed").
@JJ
Congrats on winning teh stupidz prize for the day.
I love the fanboys on here no one uses any logic they just alyways say someone elae tryin to screw apple lol i love this site
Is this referring to the iPad orders placed by the International's just recently given access, such as Belgium and Mexico? Or which roll out.
this is a good one... hehe