Many Apple-savvy customers have caught on onto the high probability of Apple releasing a second-generation iPad early next year. Although many analysts don’t anticipate a release of iPad 2G before the Spring, a prospect of a first quarter refresh of the iPad next year is now believed to be discouraging many customers from purchasing the first generation iPad this holiday season either for themselves or for someone else.

Recently, the same sources, which are overseas supplies, who reported the forthcoming iPad 2G have similarly begun expressing concerns that the looming prospect of a brand new iPad (likely one that will have a front facing camera for FaceTime video chats) will severely hamper the current sales of the Apple tablet. Many people have the ideology of – Why buy the first-gen iPad, when it may become the “older model” in just a few months?

Any and all suspicions that Apple’s prospective iPad refresh will hurt sales of the first iPad this holiday season are pretty arrogant. Apple is no longer the sole player in the tablet market. While many think that the dip in the first-gen iPad sales as an indication that the marketplace is simply holding off for a new iPad, people are also forgetting about the tablets produced by other companies such as Samsung, RIM, etc, which may also prove to be  factor in this equation. While the iPad is widely predicted to dominate the tablet market for the duration of 2011, it isn’t far-fetched at all to expect the competition to take at least a small chunk of market share away from Apple.

Source: DigiTimes

Authors: TechHead

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