Apple creating touch panel shortages for tablet competition?

Things tend to get messy for the competition when Apple decides to direct its vast cash reserves on "very strategic" components. Especially when Cupertino starts waving around stacks of dough in the range of $ 3.9 billion to $ 7.8 billion. Just look at what Apple did to NAND supplies as the flash-based iPod rose to dominance, for reference. Today DigiTimes is reporting that Apple is occupying close to 60 percent of the global touch panel production capacity resulting in a "tight supply" for

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