Foxconn is the largest exporter of consumer electronics in the Greater China area. A number of gadget vendors based in North America and Europe outsource their manufacturing to the Taiwan-based company, including Apple, with the iPhone and the iPad the best-known products that Foxconn produces.
The DigiTimes estimate of 20 million iPad 2s is a 60 percent increase from the prior three months. Still, given the supply shortages that struck Japan early this year, Apple may simply be taking the precaution of stocking up well in advance of this year's holiday shopping season.
"We are modeling for second-half calendar-year 2011 iPad unit [shipments] of 22 million -- up 91 percent year over year from 11.5 million in the second half of calendar year 2010," Piper Jaffray analyst Andrew Murphy wrote Thursday in an email.
The firm also currently estimates that Apple's 2011 iPad shipments "will grow 143 percent year over year to 35.9 million units," Murphy added, though this last comparison is to a partial year of iPad sales in 2010.
Accelerating demand for media tablets overall -- and Apple's iPad in particular -- has forced Net Applications to change the way it reports data about the global market shares of browsers and operating systems. The web-metrics firm said Thursday that it will be releasing separate statistics for the PC and mobile/media tablet markets.
"The combination of mobile and tablet usage has continued to rise dramatically and is now over six percent -- and accelerating -- of all browsing on the Internet," said Net Applications Executive Vice President Vince...
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