Apple could be planning to discontinue the iPad 2 in the first quarter of 2014, an analyst has said while predicting shipments of the iPad Air and iPad mini 2 this week. KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has a strong track record for predicting Apple launches, believes that Apple will see a significant increase in Retina iPad mini 2 shipments during the first quarter of 2014, but that this increase will cannibalise Apple's larger iPad Air, reducing shipments by 43 per cent. In a research note this week, Kuo said that he expects Apple to ship 23.1 million iPads in the fourth quarter o
