Manufacturers of accessories for iDevices take risks before launching each new terminal and produce accessories without knowing for sure whether the product released by Apple will look as they are told or not. The same plan was followed by those who produced cases for iPad Mini, and one such manufacturer decided to stop the production of its accessories because of a change that Apple made to the design of the tablet. No one knows for sure what the change would be, but since the production of accessories has been stopped, it is clear that it is important, and we will find out more in the coming weeks.
Large OEM mobile accessory maker has stopped their iPad mini case production, because the form of iPad mini seems to be changed. Source told me the round shape seems changed, then case designed based on leaked iPad mini may be dropped.
For the producers, it is about tens of thousands of dollars lost by manufacturing products that are now almost useless, but every year they risk considerable money on rumors and can end up in situations like this. Of course, their practice will not stop, even if the losses are hundreds of thousands of dollars, and this convinces the employees of Apple's partners to steal sketches of future products and sell them to accessory manufacturers.
