January 16, 2010 by Jenny Sanderson
Okay, deep breath everyone, here comes another Apple rumour. Usual provisos apply, your own discretion is required – this thing is full of anonymous sources and a very healthy dose of conjecture and may very well be the work of an Apple PR engaging in the dark art of leaking, or just plain made up. I don’t know, but it seems plausible enough to be worth talking about nevertheless.
Electronics suppliers in Asia are reportedly telling anyone who wants a bulk order of 10” screens that they cannot have one as Apple have pre-ordered them all. What would Apple want with all those 10” screens? Well, the popular theory, predictably, is that these screens are for the long-awaited and heavily rumoured Apple tablet computer, the standard practice with a bulk build of this nature being to bulk order ahead of time, to guarantee supplies at current prices.
An anonymous (told you) source states, “We were designing a product for a customer and we needed 10-inch screens, but we’ve been trying for months and can’t get one from any of the Asian suppliers… We were told that Apple preordered them all. All 10 inch LCDs, and all 10 inch OLEDs too.”
So, it’s official then? Well, no. The strange thing about this rumour is that Apple is supposed to also be buying up OLED panels with the screens and Industry experts are predicting that 10” OLEDs would make the device prohibitively expensive, even by apple’s standards.
There you go, make up your own mind. I’ll let you know about any developments.
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