Here are your Apple rumors and AAPL stock news items for Thursday: Kids Want
Their Apple This Christmas: Nielsen released a survey on Thursday morning
tracking what electronic gadgets kids between 6 and 12 years old want this
holiday, and Apple took the three top spots. A whopping 44% of survey
respondents said that they wanted Apple s (NASDAQ: AAPL ) iPad this year. The
iPod Touch followed, with 30% listing it as the top priority, while the iPhone
trailed just behind at 27%. Following Apples products, 25% favored, in equal
measure, a computer, a non-iPad tablet computer and a Nintendo (PINK: NTDOY )
3DS gaming device. What is most interesting about these statistics is the
decline in interest in traditional computers. In 2010, 29% of respondents
expressed interest in a computer, trailing only the iPad, which commanded 31% of
interest. Nielsens survey certainly wont quell fear among PC makers worried
about the iPads encroachment on their territory. Apple Slows iPad 2 Orders Ahead
of iPad 3: A Thursday report at Digitimes said that Apple is cooling off of iPad
2 production going into 2012. The company had procured enough display panels to
produce between 15 million and 16 million iPads over the course of the third
quarter, but Apple sold just above 11 million iPads in that period. The
remaining stockpile of display panels will be used in the production of the iPad
3 starting in early 2012. Samsung and Sharp are reportedly manufacturing the
iPad 3 displays for Apple. The iPad 3 is rumored to have a significantly
improved screen over the iPad 2, offering resolution similar to the Retina
Display used in the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S. Retailers Looking to Liquidate
BlackBerry PlayBook: Research In Motion s (NASDAQ: RIMM ) iPad competitor, the
BlackBerry PlayBook, hasnt exactly torn up the sales charts since its release
earlier this year. The company shipped just 200,000 tablets during the third
quarter of 2011, bringing the total to 700,000 overall. Apple shipped 11 million
iPads in the last quarter alone. Now retailers are preparing to pull a
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ ) TouchPad, selling the PlayBook at hundreds of
dollars less than its sticker price to move existing stock. A report at Apple
Insider, citing ads from retailers like Staples (NASDAQ: SPLS ), said that there
are plans to sell the lowest-tier PlayBook for just $199, the same price as
Amazons new Kindle Fire and $300 below the regular price of the PlayBook. As of
this writing, Anthony John Agnello did not own a position in any of the
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