Apple reigns over touch panel marketFebruary 18, 2011 - 16:04 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Nearly 60 per cent of the world’s touch-screen panels have already been secured by Apple, in a move that will leave competitors like RIM and HP struggling for getting touch-screen panels for their devices. Eamerging reports claim that Apple has already prepaid $3.9 billion to the key manufacturers, Wintek and TPK, to get touch-screen panels over a long period of time. Signing long-term contracts with the manufacturers of touch-screen panels will allows the iPhone-maker to control pricing. Rival companies like Motorola, HP and RIM will now compete for the remaining 40 per cent of touch-screen panels. The scarcity will definitely push the prices of the panels up. Last year, Apple had to struggle hard to keep pace with demand for the iPhone and the iPad due to shortage of touch-screen panels. According to a research, a total of 59.5 million tablets were sold last year, with Apple’s iPadaccounting for 10.2 million. iSuppli is of the view that Apple will be able to sell 44 million iPad or iPad 2 tablets in 2011, Top News reports. Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | Putin congratulates Pashinyan’s birthday Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on his birthday on June 1. Opposition motorcade en route to Gyumri for large rally A motorcade of protesters headed by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan is heading to the city of Gyumri. Ruling MPs, Foreign Minister talk Armenia-Azerbaijan processes MOs from the ruling Civil Contract party met with the Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan in the Armenian parliament. Russia: Armenia’s frozen membership weakens CSTO position in Caucasus A Russian envoy said any step that could alienate the CSTO member states from each other is “deeply wrong”. |