Apple’s all-new iPad may eat away the netbook market it aims to reinvent, Paul Peng, executive VP of AU Optronics' (AUO's) global business unit has said.The highly-placed executive notes that: “iPad's starting price of US$499 is very competitive and should give Apple a chance to achieve annual sales of 10 million units, which is a significant estimate considering the current tablet PC market is only about three million units a year. However, sales may be impacted by component shortages.”
This was also noted by our own Seth Weintraub at
