Bit of both really
Would like to carry all of my music around + some movies, it's probably a bit over the top I know but still 
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Bit of both really
Would like to carry all of my music around + some movies, it's probably a bit over the top I know but still 
But you can't stand up and use a laptop very conveniently. Or have built in LTE and a touchscreen (at least not with Macbooks).
Tablet and laptops, apples and oranges.
It has been for years now.
Apple lost the memo in their maps department.
When they find it they'll start passing component savings costs onto the faithful...or not.
Massive margins...$700/share...nevermind.
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Really man, this again? The VAST majority that have a laptop use it for simple things like web browsing, checking e-mails, watching a movie etc. The iPad arguably offers a far superior medium for that in a very nice form factor.
I, for one, think this move is genius on Apple's part. It gives them a boost on sales + revenue midway through the product cycle, and nobody can complain that they bought a 32 GB for $100 more than they aught to have (well, they will, but without the sincerely they would have if Apple actually dropped the price by $100 mid cycle.)
I'm not saying I support them as a customer in this move, but if I had spare money to invest in them, I'd think about it.
I'm not saying I support them as a customer in this move, but if I had spare money to invest in them, I'd think about it.
Yes. I filled up my 64 GB iPod touch before with my big music collection. I sold it and bought a classic and now I have the iPhone. I have 2 devices, I'd much rather have only 1.
This should pave the way for a 32GB base model 5th gen iPad 9.7". A worthy upgrade from my beloved 2nd gen
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See AT&T, Verizon & Sprint tiered data rates. Cloud could be wonderful but you have to pay these tollmasters for access anywhere, anytime that you are away from wifi. The cloud is not the answer as long as such tollmasters have a lock on the pipe between consumers and this cloud.
I am getting offended by apples pricing...
16gb (32gb-16gb) = $100
AND
32gb (64-32gb) = $100
AND now
64gb (128-64gb) =$100
Everybody knows that flash is cheap and that we are being ripped off, but now it's gotten absurd .
I have been a loyal apple enthusiast for years, but there is a point.
I say we all stop buying until apple gets more reasonable in their markups.
iPad 16gb $400
iPad 32gb $450
iPad 64gb $500
iPad 128gb $579
And apple while you are at it, why don't you drop the lte option down to $50?
How can it be that we are asked to pay the same prices for the same amount of memory as we were in 2008?!?
Where else in electronics has that ever happened?
16gb (32gb-16gb) = $100
AND
32gb (64-32gb) = $100
AND now
64gb (128-64gb) =$100
Everybody knows that flash is cheap and that we are being ripped off, but now it's gotten absurd .
I have been a loyal apple enthusiast for years, but there is a point.
I say we all stop buying until apple gets more reasonable in their markups.
iPad 16gb $400
iPad 32gb $450
iPad 64gb $500
iPad 128gb $579
And apple while you are at it, why don't you drop the lte option down to $50?
How can it be that we are asked to pay the same prices for the same amount of memory as we were in 2008?!?
Where else in electronics has that ever happened?
I have a limit per month of dl/up which is too small to store much data in a cloud service. (If I need a 128 GB iPad, it means that I have a lot of GB to store in the cloud) Instead, I have a local NAS. I still buy things physical (CD/BD). Why I would pay the same price (or often more) for an extra lossy compression that I even don't own ? So... All things I buy aren't in the cloud.
Oh, and well, as I compress movie from the BD and that I use them on my TV, I prefer to keep an higher bitrate than iTunes movie, so they're bigger. I need more space on an iPad for that.
why?
I dont understand why people are paying for fixed storage.
Just get the camera kit. Get any array of SD cards (including 128 Gigs). Install iFile (for easy selection and viewing movies right from), and carry your entire HD movie collection with you at all times, without taking any space on a 16 gig iPad......and no internet needed.
I dont understand why people are paying for fixed storage.
Just get the camera kit. Get any array of SD cards (including 128 Gigs). Install iFile (for easy selection and viewing movies right from), and carry your entire HD movie collection with you at all times, without taking any space on a 16 gig iPad......and no internet needed.
I'm just not biting this time...I've become accustomed to managing my 64GB iPad 4, and I'm NOT forking out for a brand new ipad just months after the new one. I'd rather save the money and buy a refreshed rMBP 15" to replace the 17" cMBP I just sold. But, I suspect they will sell in droves.
I would consider it. I have 24,000+ songs in iTunes...all at 320k. Of that, I have probably 8000 that are a 5-star rating (I used to dj). I also take a lot of video clips of our kids which eat up an enormous amount of space (30 seconds of video = 100MB space).
I can only fit about 4500 320k songs on my iPhone 64GB right now while leaving room for 15+ mins of video recording and some pix.
We all know the iPhone's calling features are at the bottom of the list of the reasons to buy an iPhone.
My iPhone is really a jukebox for me...the Touch's don't have enough features to warrant their prices compared to iPhones.Wouldn't we need to jailbreak the iPad? If so, that's why you are not understanding why most consumers are paying for the fixed storage...most consumers don't have the skills (or knowledge to even know about in advance) to jailbreak.
Right, but if you're gonna have a 128 GB tablet, you're obviously doing a lot with it. Might as well buy a laptop and make life easier.
Can't wait for the 256 GB at $899!
Seriously though, I think this is an odd moment to introduce this. Yes, it should have been introduced already, way earlier. But today it almost feels too late with iCloud, Netflix, Spotify, Dropbox, all that. I don't exactly have a growing library of mp3 files these days. Sure, it's nice if you have a conservative data plan, but I can't say I'm without WiFi for weeks at a time too often.
Seriously though, I think this is an odd moment to introduce this. Yes, it should have been introduced already, way earlier. But today it almost feels too late with iCloud, Netflix, Spotify, Dropbox, all that. I don't exactly have a growing library of mp3 files these days. Sure, it's nice if you have a conservative data plan, but I can't say I'm without WiFi for weeks at a time too often.
There are about 25 reasons NOT to use the Cloud...those reasons have been talked about in great length on this site and hundreds of other sites. Google around a bit (or just surf through MR)...I'm not going to repeat them here.