Analyst Foresees Positive iPad Mini Commercial Performance
Apple has reportedly ordered 10 million units for the last few months of 2012 alone.
According to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, the iPad Mini could affect the larger iPad's sales figures.
In a note to investors, he said the iPad Mini will have a 20 percent cannibalization rate on sales for the regular iPad.
He believes that every five million iPad Mini unit sales will subsequently result in a decrease of one million sales for the larger iPad units.
Janney Montgomery Scott’s Bill Choi, meanwhile, expects the 7.85-inch iPad to cannibalize around 15 percent of standard iPad sales. “We view the smaller iPad as mostly an incremental opportunity, but see some modest cannibalization risk to the iPad and iPod touch,” he said.
Choi expects that for the December quarter, Apple will sell a total of 25.5 million iPad units, with the iPad Mini attributing to six million of those sales. Apple has instilled enough confidence into the tablet that it has reportedly ordered 10 million units for the fourth quarter.
The iPad Mini is due to be announced on October 23, while a release date is said to follow a week later on November 2.

It is Zak Islam, what do you expect?
I predict my AAPL shares go higher
Get ready to sell during the conference, cause after they show the iPad mini brings nothing new to the table, you'll be under a few grand, haha.
Cheers!
Surface with its 1366x768 screen, Tegra 3, no apps and a $500 price tag (no keyboard)? Oh yeah, it'll have Office... if you really need to edit spreadsheets on a tablet.
Even if Surface wasn't an underpowered, overpriced piece of crap, I'm not supporting Microsoft while it's trying to push the entire PC world into their walled garden. Last time I gave them money (for Windows 7), they used it to develop Windows 8. I'm not giving them any more money until they get their act together.