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Apple May Reintroduce Discontinued iPad 4 Alongside 8 GB iPhone 5c Tomorrow
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Seconded. I own one of those 2012 cMBPs. Beachballs constantly.
I'll never forget when I was working on a group project for college and ended up using my classmate's 13" Air. Sure, it was faster, lighter, and more responsive, but he paid less for it than I paid for mine. Wait.
They won't be after today. Got an email from Apple with the news of the discontinuing of the iPad 2 with the 4th gen replacing it. So that part is true.
Now just waiting for the 8GB 5C.
That's not my point - what you said is already front page news. What I quoted was the part about Apple getting rid of ALL 30-pin devices, it's not. iPhone 4 and 4s are still alive
Yes, I've been around Apple long enough to know that this will happen. But apparently you haven't.
Walmart was selling the iPad 2 for $100 off just a few weeks ago. Target routinely sold the iPad 2 for $50 off.
People really just don't get it. The iPad 2 and now the iPad 4 aren't targeted at consumers. They are targeted at enterprise and educational institutions who are not paying full list price for the devices.
Yes - it would seem the 8GB 5C is only for select countries and even in some the 4/4S are still alive. Here in the US, looks like the 4S will remain.
Its obvious this guy has a mole inside FoxConn - he even predicted the date (Q1)
So happy apple finally got rid of the iPad 2. This is what I thought they should have done from day one of the iPad Air release. This is going to make my jobs so much easier. I work for best buy and hated when customers asked about the iPad 2 and didn't want to look at any other iPad because of pricing. I even had a hunch apple was going to get rid of it when it had been a month or so since we had got any stock of them. But now at least the iPad 4th gen will be a bit more reasonable seeing as it's only one model older then the iPad Air and not a three year old device.
Ahhh, finally, for a market hungry for something new from Apple, they release... an obsolete model from 2 years ago.
wtf is going on in cupertino
wtf is going on in cupertino
Someone please logically explain to me why they didn't have this lineup when the Air launched? They discontinued the iPad 4 for the iPad2. I never got that. This was the right move. I still prefer the iPad 4 design over all the rest.
I wonder if these are old stock shipping with iOS 6. I'd buy one if I knew it had iOS 6 on it.
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The iPad 4 running iOS 6 is faster in every day tasks compared to the air. It also doesn't feel as cheap and the screen doesn't bend when typing on it. You do the math!
I wonder if these are old stock shipping with iOS 6. I'd buy one if I knew it had iOS 6 on it.
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The iPad 4 running iOS 6 is faster in every day tasks compared to the air. It also doesn't feel as cheap and the screen doesn't bend when typing on it. You do the math!
I absolutely agree. To me, Apple is becoming a contradiction. They famously focus on making their products as minimalist as possible. But their retail strategy is beginning to drift back to the Sculley years of bloat.
And the 8 GB 5c just baffles me. How can Apple think it's going to be even remotely useable? Once a customer installs all of Apple's free software at the prompt (iMovie, iWork, etc.), the device will be filled!
I agree with you in regards to 8GB iDevices. When I got my 1G touch in 2008, I thought 8GB was enough. But as my interest in the App Store and my own tastes in music expanded, I've found that 8GB isn't enough. I wish Apple would expand the base level of memory to 16GB. I feel this won't happen, as I think Apple sees this as a way to get folks to use iCloud and iTunes Match. I also think iOS has become bloated as well over the years.
And there's also iPod Classic in status quo. When iPod has 128GB of storage then maybe we can all say goodbye to the old Classic.
Replacing the iPad 2 with the 4 isn't a lack of innovation. It doesn't say they aren't innovating. Stop being so demanding.
iPad 4 is the best. All these innovation bashers are wrong! Re-introducing the 4 and retiring the 2 was a great move. Anyone who wanted to get a new 4 instead of the air now has an opportunity to do so.