The fifth-generation iPad tablet should go into production this fall, and suppliers believe that Apple will replace its old technology with a new technology that allows it to create a touch panel from thin layers, which it currently uses iPad miniThis will allow Appto create a thinner, lighter and, last but not least, sexier fifth-generation iPad with a 9,7-inch display. According to Digitimes, the new touch panels will be available for Apple in the summer of 2013, with the fact that suppliers will experience the greatest production load in the fall of this year, when Apple to produce iPads for the pre-Christmas market.
This means that the fifth generation of iPad will not start shipping until the fall basically, which will make it Apple attack the pre-Christmas market. According to Forbes magazine Apple it won't even offer a new 5th-generation iPad until October of this year, giving consumers a whole year to buy the fourth-generation, which has drawn criticism for being introduced just seven months after the 3rd-generation iPad and offering essentially nothing innovative. Currently, it has been more than half a year since Apple not only did it not release any news, it also did not offer any substantial software update.
The company should start releasing its products in a way that it can basically offer either new software or a new product several times a year. Currently, everything indicates that we will not see the first products until WWDC 2013, in June and then in the fall. In general, the new iPad is expected to adopt the design from the iPad, in addition to a hardware update. miniThe iPad with a 9,7″ display should offer not only a thinner design, but also slimmer bezels, again following the example of what was demonstrated iPad mini.
Source: forbes.com
Um, so the dry/desert season continues
up to WWDC
I have a great iPad3 now, and then I will go to the iPad5, where I will sell the iPad3 in the highest version with a nice discount :).