While I somewhat see your point, your need to consider once the initial launch craze dies down, you will be able to get any model you want fairly easy by just walking into the Apple store.
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18 different variations = a complete mess
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While I somewhat see your point, your need to consider once the initial launch craze dies down, you will be able to get any model you want fairly easy by just walking into the Apple store.
good god people really get offended when others say something bad about apple. internet=serious business
I'm so glad you have the time to teach me life lessons on the MacRumors internet forum. What would I do without you, muffin?
You know, whining about whiners makes you a whiner yourself. You realize that, don't you?
Tony
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I get the logic of the argument but I don't see how simply eliminating the white models really improves any ones chances of getting the specific one they want from the other nine choices. Let's say Apple did limit the introduction to just the 16GB black WiFi only. The OP would still have to wait for the 3G model they want. While the argument has some merit from a supply chain perspective, I think there would be even more dissatisfaction with Apple if they took all of the choices away. A single model is great if it happens to be the model you want.
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I get the logic of the argument but I don't see how simply eliminating the white models really improves any ones chances of getting the specific one they want from the other nine choices. Let's say Apple did limit the introduction to just the 16GB black WiFi only. The OP would still have to wait for the 3G model they want. While the argument has some merit from a supply chain perspective, I think there would be even more dissatisfaction with Apple if they took all of the choices away. A single model is great if it happens to be the model you want.
The whole mess could have been avoided if they had not made an veRizone units until late summer when the iPad 3 was introduced for ATT!
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OK so the life lesson was out of line, my apologies. But let's have an honest answer to this, If Apple simplified the introduction to just the 16GB Black WiFi only would you still be complaining because you have to wait for the 3G model?
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OK so the life lesson was out of line, my apologies. But let's have an honest answer to this, If Apple simplified the introduction to just the 16GB Black WiFi only would you still be complaining because you have to wait for the 3G model?
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Maybe I just feel like tugging someone's chain.
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You know, whining about whiners makes you a whiner yourself. You realize that, don't you?
Tony
Maybe I just feel like tugging someone's chain.
Haha, I'm all for internet snark so no harm done. I think my original message wasn't quite clear enough:
I'm ALL FOR having lots of choices.
I think that having 18 models come out at once is a TAD much because...
...spreading stock across that many models DOES make it harder to find the one that you want because, inherently, there will be fewer of any one model at a given time.
I'm not whining (I have an iPad 1 so it's not like I'm hurting for an iPad), I just think it's a little weird and un-Apple to have done things this way. I can see where it might look like I'm being a whinebag...what with my sarcastic nature and the inability to properly convey that through text, but rest assured, I'll still be sleeping tonight regardless of whether or not there's an iPad 2 next to me.
Fin.
So do you have a solution in mind, because so far you haven't offered one. Should Apple scrap Verizon version, and not have 3G option for half the country with poor AT&T coverage? Should they stop offering it in white, which a lot of people seem to want and love? Should they stop making 16GB version, which puts iPad in an affordable price range for a lot of people? Should they wave their magic wand and increase production for every version x18 times? What exactly?
You see.. whining is exactly what you're doing.. funny thing is - you don't even realize it.
Yah so if iPad 2 had emerged with fewer variations at launch, the threads du jour would have been about Apple not having the sense to make what customers want and how by the time they make it no one will want it and how the launch was therefore "a complete mess."
Apple always just has to pick its poison for a product launch, execute the selected plan as best it can, adapt where proven necessary, and laugh all the way to the bank. I'm sure they learn something useful from every go, and that we consumers benefit from that somehow the next time around.
When iPad 1 launched, the main dissenters were shouting to the rooftops that tablets were a niche product and Apple was nuts to roll it off the assembly line. Yah. So a year later we see that the iPad's "niche" is the size of the Grand Canyon and still evolving. It must be fun for critics to move from dissing the product completely to merely complaining there are too many or not enough variants. Hell, I would have voted for one more set: without or without the damn camera(s), but even Apple seems to lack enough brass to go there in this day and age. A no-cam version probably WOULD be for a niche market.
Apple's competitors are clearly still chasing the wake of iPad 1, trying to make one they can sell. Smaller. Bigger. Purple. Circular. Edible.
Meanwhile Apple's primary designers have left iPad to the follow-on teams and are out in the desert somewhere, studying cracks in the ground and wondering what would happen if they poke a little stick in, oh, say, right about here... they're out there making "a complete mess" day after day after day, brainstorming their way to the next phase when they have to winnow out the chaff from the feasible dreams we don't even know we have yet.
Don't you get it yet? A "complete mess" is proof of life, evolution, progress. Or as they say in the barns around here, "a clean stall is a sign of a dead horse."
Apple always just has to pick its poison for a product launch, execute the selected plan as best it can, adapt where proven necessary, and laugh all the way to the bank. I'm sure they learn something useful from every go, and that we consumers benefit from that somehow the next time around.
When iPad 1 launched, the main dissenters were shouting to the rooftops that tablets were a niche product and Apple was nuts to roll it off the assembly line. Yah. So a year later we see that the iPad's "niche" is the size of the Grand Canyon and still evolving. It must be fun for critics to move from dissing the product completely to merely complaining there are too many or not enough variants. Hell, I would have voted for one more set: without or without the damn camera(s), but even Apple seems to lack enough brass to go there in this day and age. A no-cam version probably WOULD be for a niche market.
Apple's competitors are clearly still chasing the wake of iPad 1, trying to make one they can sell. Smaller. Bigger. Purple. Circular. Edible.
Meanwhile Apple's primary designers have left iPad to the follow-on teams and are out in the desert somewhere, studying cracks in the ground and wondering what would happen if they poke a little stick in, oh, say, right about here... they're out there making "a complete mess" day after day after day, brainstorming their way to the next phase when they have to winnow out the chaff from the feasible dreams we don't even know we have yet.
Don't you get it yet? A "complete mess" is proof of life, evolution, progress. Or as they say in the barns around here, "a clean stall is a sign of a dead horse."