Apple Adding Second Manufacturer for Forthcoming iPad Update?

[MrWillie]

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Got it?

If you say so... No vision.

If Apple doesn't update the iPad now, with a slew of Android tablets coming, how will Apple ensure that the iPad remains ahead of the pack in terms of capabilities? You see, the iPhone had a long lead because nobody at the time was doing what Apple was doing. But now with the advanced state of Android, Apple has no choice but to diversify the product line in order to remain ahead of the pack. Once Apple is perceived as being "behind", we have another Macintosh on our hands and developers jumping ship to Android in droves. Not good for Apple.

Android is not the threat, it's Microsoft with Windows 8. iPad 3 or Pro, will be a hybrid machine running Lion with an ARM processor. It will also be able to BootCamp or VM Windows 8.

Mac lost ground to MS because the Federal gov would only allow agencies to purchase Wintel machines after the Unisys fiasco.

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He also said that he wasn't going into the phone business either. Year of the iPad 2 means that iPad 2 will dominate. It doesn't mean it will be the only iPad Apple releases.

 

[2 Owls]

If you say so... No vision.



Android is not the threat, it's Microsoft with Windows 8. iPad 3 or Pro, will be a hybrid machine running Lion with an ARM processor. It will also be able to BootCamp or VM Windows 8.

Mac lost ground to MS because the Federal gov would only allow agencies to purchase Wintel machines after the Unisys fiasco.




He also said that he wasn't going into the phone business either. Year of the iPad 2 means that iPad 2 will dominate. It doesn't mean it will be the only iPad Apple releases.

Humour bypass much?

 

[AppleScruff1]

come on guys, do you REALLY think there is going to be another ipad released this year? these rumours should stop just like that old iphone mini one that has been going since iphone was first announced... so where is it??
There will be NO ipad 2.5, 2S, HD, 3 etc this year.

Are you sure? How about a 7" model? What if Apple decides to blow the competition off of the planet and start doing 2 updates per year? What if they do the totally unthinkable and unpredictable? It sure would set the competition back a light year or two. So what if the fanboys get mad, Apple will sell them in record numbers anyway. It would be brilliant strategy that no one would be expecting. I like it.

They are making an iPad 2 ramp, an iPad3 and an iPhone 5 world phone. They need plenty of factories at full speed for this stuff. And that assumes they do not finally release a price driven version of iPhone other than continued sales of iPhone 3GS.

Rocketman

Quite true. Imagine if Apple introduces an entry level iPhone? It would completely corner the market and knock the snot out of Android phones. Ditto for the iPad. Only the fanboys wouldn't like it, the average consumer would be all over it like flies on stink.

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

I bet it's a new factory in kansas.

 

[MrNomNoms]

Elaborate?

And right on Apple for branching out to get better reliability and for distancing themselves from a manufacturer that evidently didn't have the best safety practices in place, though ***** can happen anywhere, I think it'd be good for Apple to stick w/ reputably better quality manufacturers (not that Foxconn didn't produce quality to Apple's standards, but in the long run other/more reputable partners may be better).

Who knows? Kind of interested too to see if Apple will move away from Foxconn entirely, though, again, as it seems Foxconn has made some excellent quality products for Apple.

What I find interesting is all previous Mac's I have bought have all been assembled by FoxConn but the iMac and MacBook Pro both were made by Quanta - I wonder whether some of the distancing has in part to do with FoxConn and the bad PR has been receiving regarding the spate of suicides and bad employment practices.

Interesting enough I've been pretty happy with the two computers received so I wonder if that is in part with the change of assemblers.

 

[gpat]

The iPad HD (retina screen iPad) will happen when they have:

-open access to large-scale 1536p 9" IPS displays on the cheap
-a processor which at least quadruples the graphic power of whatever GPU the prev-gen iPad is mounting (in this case, the A5).

This most definitely won't happen this year, because the iPad 2 is wiping the floor with whatever similar product the market has to offer, and I'm not entirely positive about next year neither, because it needs a major degree of evolution in the screen and CPU department, and it's not gonna happen overnight.

So stop being delusional, get in your car and buy your iPad 2 if you want/need it.

 

[Piggie]

The iPad HD (retina screen iPad) will happen when they have:

-open access to large-scale 1536p 9" IPS displays on the cheap
-a processor which at least quadruples the graphic power of whatever GPU the prev-gen iPad is mounting (in this case, the A5).

This most definitely won't happen this year, because the iPad 2 is wiping the floor with whatever similar product the market has to offer, and I'm not entirely positive about next year neither, because it needs a major degree of evolution in the screen and CPU department, and it's not gonna happen overnight.

So stop being delusional, get in your car and buy your iPad 2 if you want/need it.

They won't need to have a very much faster CPU/GPU for a retina screen.

What they may do is some clever resolution switching. Remember just because you have a screen that can display 2048 pixels across does not mean you have to drive it with 2048 pixels across.
Like your monitors at home, you can drive them at lower resolutions than their max. You don't normally do it, but you can.

They could flip into the current 1024 pixels across screen mode when they want to move the screen around fast, such as in games, but change to rendering the full 2048 pixels for something like a book or utility.

 

[gpat]

They won't need to have a very much faster CPU/GPU for a retina screen.

What they may do is some clever resolution switching. Remember just because you have a screen that can display 2048 pixels across does not mean you have to drive it with 2048 pixels across.
Like your monitors at home, you can drive them at lower resolutions than their max. You don't normally do it, but you can.

They could flip into the current 1024 pixels across screen mode when they want to move the screen around fast, such as in games, but change to rendering the full 2048 pixels for something like a book or utility.

You're wrong. Only CRT displays can scale images at non-native resolution properly. LCDs have to rely on interpolation, which pretty much leads to a crappy output, like you can test on any LCD display of any quality.

Even if they could somehow figure out a way to make a LCD work at two resolutions properly, I'm sure it wouldn't be as seamless, and far less polished than the solution they want. And I think that getting a chip with 4x the graphic power than the A5 is far easier than securing a huge supply of 1536p IPS displays, at a cost not too much higher than the 768p current ones.

 

[Sackvillenb]

Well hopefully this will help keep the supply high enough to meet the demand... Might even lower manufacturing costs in the long run... maybe...

 

[MacNewsFix]

So does this mean a new model or increased demand for the current model or an indication of general dissatisfaction with their current manufacturer? Short of an official press release, I think it is all conjecture.

 

[Uffish Thought]

You are correct...

If your PDFs are blurry (pixelated) when you pinch-to-zoom, then that means the source is from a jpg or other bitmapped graphics, so you would definitely not benefit from an HD display in the scenario stated.

Thanks for pointing that out, it was only the bitmapped PDF's that I was having problems with.

Now I'll have to find another reason to upgrade from the original iPad

 

[engg2000]

New Ipad this Fall

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