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Apple’s iPad may encounter a holiday sales slowdown, according to Rodman & Renshaw analyst Ashok Kumar. While analysts have estimated iPad sales at 6 million units for the fourth quarter, Kumar now states that Apple—along with other tablet makers such as Samsung—could have some trouble meeting those numbers.
Kumar’s research note to the firm’s clients, reproduced widely by Websites such as Bloomberg and Fortune, hints that Apple’s supply chain will be unlikely to meet that 6-million-units figure. Kumar also posits that the new MacBook Air could cannibalize the iPad’s customer base, although he cites no hard figures to back that assertion.
Perhaps more worrisome for the overall tablet market, though, is Kumar’s suggestion that both the Dell Streak and Samsung Galaxy Tab are experiencing low sell-through rates.
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