Maybe competitors find it hard to accept that Apple can release one product a year and have it sell well all year where as they have to release a new iteration every few months to stay "fresh."
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'iPad 4' Headed for October Launch with iPad 3 as Interim Upgrade?
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Maybe competitors find it hard to accept that Apple can release one product a year and have it sell well all year where as they have to release a new iteration every few months to stay "fresh."
Bingo. iPad 3 this spring. iOS 6 upgrade around the time of the next iPhone launch in the fall.
Well you've replied to my question with two questions.
It still begs the question, what advantage would there be for a twice yearly iPad release?
Well, they did actually significantly improve the GPU with the A5. (9x or so? It was immediately dismissed as unimportant to anyone but gamers. Maybe it will be useful to those higher resolution displays. It's almost as if Apple plans these things in advance!
)The rumor is still ridiculous though.
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the reason samsung is so successful is they have one flagship phone/tablet per year. unlike HTC which has a different name phone which is the same hardware every other week
Does anyone else feel like some undercover Android/Microsoft PR people are pushing these "rumors" out there to scare people into not buying the next Apple product? People are already mumbling about iPhone 6 and iPad 4. It's dumb and it's not going to happen. Buy the next Apple product, enjoy it for a year, get hyped for the product that comes out the following year, rinse and repeat. That's Apple's tried and true cycle, and they're not going to abandon that.
One of the reasons Apple's products are so successful is because of the general mystery and hype that surrounds them for an entire year leading up to their unveiling at the huge keynote events. If they're releasing products every 6 months, a lot of that mystery and hype just won't be there and/or nobody will care.
One of the reasons Apple's products are so successful is because of the general mystery and hype that surrounds them for an entire year leading up to their unveiling at the huge keynote events. If they're releasing products every 6 months, a lot of that mystery and hype just won't be there and/or nobody will care.
This doesn't make any sense. To release an iPad 3 and outdate it right before the holiday season? That would be incredibly stupid.
The iPad 3 will have high demand from the early adopters in March/April, and demand will increase again with iOS 6 later in the year and the holiday season of 2012.
To release an iPad 4 in October would only serve to piss off iPad 3 early adopters and guarantee that they don't have enough units to keep stores stocked over the holidays, meaning they will miss out on a lot of sales.
The iPad 3 will have high demand from the early adopters in March/April, and demand will increase again with iOS 6 later in the year and the holiday season of 2012.
To release an iPad 4 in October would only serve to piss off iPad 3 early adopters and guarantee that they don't have enough units to keep stores stocked over the holidays, meaning they will miss out on a lot of sales.
This "news" item is posted to MacRumors because DigiTimes reported it on their site. Since this is all a numbers game (whoever gets the most hits gets the most advertising $) MacRumors has to waste our time with it in order to stay in business.
Indeed. Can we have a little filtering between anything vaguely plausible and "random words put out by someone who has never seen an apple product"?
There aren't going to be 2 new iPads in 2012, or 2 new iPhones, just as there weren't 2 of either in 2011. There will not be a 'pro' iPad with "insert feature here". Apple hasn't done that in years. They will introduce a new iPad in the first quarter, it will be the same basic size, it will be more powerful, it will come with a few different onboard memory sizes and a choice of 3G or WiFi. The iPad2 will continue to exist for a while at a lower price point.
That is it for iPad for 2012.
1. Laptops and desktops have competition they have to keep up with and it's been like this for quite a while. Even so they don't always update more than once a year (how many updates did the 2010 13" MBP have in 2010?).
2. Look at Apple's pattern, iPhones have competition these days and they still are only updating it once a year.
3. Why would Apple update the iPad twice a year when it still is very much the dominant tablet? Especially when they've shown they don't even update more than once a year when the competition really has caught up?
Given those three reasons I think this rumor really is grasping at straws and I agree it really shouldn't even be front page news. Hell, we had a similar rumor last year, and it didn't even come close to happening (I mean, by it we should have had the iPad three months ago! Like around when the iPhone 4s came out).
I won't say it won't happen unless Apple outright says it won't happen (after all, unless you personally know their plans all of us are just guessing), but I would be shocked if it did.
lol @ this rumour.
Everyone knows that what will really happen is the iPad 3 in the next few months, iPad 4 in the summer, and then iPad 5 in November.
I've heard that the iPad 6 is due in December though, so everyone might want to wait until mid-2013 when the iPad 12 comes out.
Everyone knows that what will really happen is the iPad 3 in the next few months, iPad 4 in the summer, and then iPad 5 in November.
I've heard that the iPad 6 is due in December though, so everyone might want to wait until mid-2013 when the iPad 12 comes out.