On February 11, Bloomberg reported that foxconn said yesterday that the shortage of components that have limited the supply of equipment in the past two years has now shown signs of relief. Parts shortages will improve significantly in the first quarter of 2022, and overall supply constraints are expected to be eased in the second half of the year. However, he also added that power management chips are still in short supply.
Nikkei Asia previously reported that Apple will prioritize the production of the iPhone. Xiao Lei's colleagues recently bought a new iPad 9 with a shipping time of up to 43 days.
At present, the price of the basic version of the iPad 9 in the official Tmall store is 2399 yuan, and in a merchant in Pinduoduo, the price of this product is as high as 2498, and it is also displayed as an out-of-stock state, indicating that the current iPad is really difficult to find.
The official website (including the Tmall flagship store) shows that all versions of the iPad 9 are out of stock offline, and it takes more than a month to ship, Jingdong self-operated display price increase 400 sales, the honeycomb version is more difficult to buy, there are fewer merchants hoarding the honeycomb version.
According to Foxconn, the delivery time of the iPad is expected to be significantly shortened in the second half of this year. However, the production priority of iPad 9 is relatively last, the current production of the most priority is definitely the iPhone, iPhone not only has a higher profit, users usually install more Apps on the iPhone, so that the revenue from the App Store, Apple Music and other paid services, subscription services will be much higher.
For users who want to buy the basic iPad, Xiao Lei believes that the iPad 9 is a good choice, its initial capacity has increased to 64GB, and it is not increased. iPad 8's 32GB is too much to use, install a few more apps, cache some files are full, very affect the use experience.
However, after all, the iPad 9 currently has to wait for a month and a half, and the second-hand iPad 8 128GB is actually a good choice, that is, the front camera and chip are not as good as the iPad 9. The iPad 9 front camera upgrade is larger, not only can shoot 1080P video, but also support the function of the character drama, the display interface during video chat is wider, suitable for family-style video chat, the screen can also move with the movement of the character, more suitable for use in the kitchen and other scenarios.