Apple iPad 3 will arrive in the market in the next 3-4 months

Apple is planning to release its third generation iPad in the first quarter of the next year. According to the reports sources within the supply chain for the company started to ship out the parts and components for Apple’s new tablet and they planned to launch it in the market in the next 3-4 months.

Also the OEM production of iPad two will stay at 14-15 million units around the month of December following which it will slowly drop off to 4-5 million units in Q1 of 2012 to give way for the production and release of iPad 3.

Keeping in mind the trend of device release which Apple have followed so far that it launched original iPad in April 2010, its successor, iPad 2 in March 2011.

If the timeline does have a similar pattern for iPad 3 then the chances of seeing the new tablet in the first quarter of 2012 are pretty high. That it’ll come sooner or later is what we’ll have to wait and see.