Foxconn and Pegasus are fuming. At least, this is assured by the Japanese media, Makotakara, which refers to the effort that these Chinese production plants are carrying out to produce the iPad 3 game necessary to support the demand that Apple expects to respond to the launch of its new tablet.
According to data from the Japanese media, these Asian factories have responded to the plans that we were already echoing at the end of 2011, according to which, intensive production shifts had been scheduled that went through increasing work rates in order to avoid delays caused by the festivities of the Chinese New Year, which will be celebrated this year between January 28 and 28. In any case, it had even been raised that the response to Apple's roadmap could even cause production not to stop during these parties.
In any case, as of today and according to Macotakara, they want to avoid the damage derived from the stoppage in the assembly of the iPad 3 at the end of the month, so that they had already started that activity these days, which would translate into significant amount of units for the launch of the terminal in March. Specifically, Foxconn would be producing 85 percent of the tablets that would end up on shelves around the world, while the remaining 15 percent would come from the Pegasus plant.
By the way, these days it has been suggested that the latter will be responsible in the future for the vast majority of the production of the iPad, considering that Foxconn could focus exclusively on the manufacture of mobile terminals -that is, future generations of the iPhone from Apple -.
At the moment it is not officially known when the launch of the new iPad will be. Apple has scheduled an event for next Thursday, January 19, although hopes that it will be at that time when the new iPad will be shown to the world is low. In fact, it has already been known that the event will be especially aimed at the advertising and publishing sector, with the firm's iBooks platform as its axis.
