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Apple Debuts Second-Generation iPad Mini with Retina Display
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Still diggin' my dinged and cracked first gen. Glad for the people who have been waiting for this though!
I kinda wanted to buy a new iPad Air to replace my 2-year old iPad 3 64GB LTE but don't feel like they're really offering much incentive here to fork out $829 for the upgrade. Was hoping they'd drop the price or increase memory or something besides smaller and lighter. Think I'll wait another year and see what happens...
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And everything we predicted. Someone around here even called the pricing scheme right, with iPad mini 1 for $299 and iPad mini 2 for $399. Kudos to the unknown predicter!
Normal Pixeldoubling just as every Retina display ever. Color me not impressed.
No that was exactly what was expected for this update, should both rumors Retina and A7 come true. Unexpected was the new naming for the "bigger" iPad. Don't call it Big, call it Air. Nice marketing stunt, Phil.
You're kidding. Right?
4x cpu
8x gpu
4x pixels
1.21x price
Lets talk more about the part of the deal that has changed the least.
The price.
With this kind of specs for only $100 more the iPad mini 1 is way overpriced now. Much like the iPhone 5c isn't worth its retail price compared to the 5s. All the people who waited for Retina in the iPad mini made a very good deal. A 64-bit high-resolution wireless mini computer. This kind of progress in just one year is impressive and shows the true power of the new
Incorporated.We will survive the additional waiting time. But its definitely not coming on the 1st of November. It is coming when the other A7-iDevices stop eating up the whole 64-bit chip production. When the first flood of iPhone 5s and iPad Airs is shipped, than we will see the iPad mini 2 coming out. Sometimes "Later in November".
All that beautiful hardware and still no Flash on these things? I guess that's just something else to look forward to.
if you think about how costly high resolution screens have been and how scarce they currently are: $70 isn't too bad. Everyone wanted the retina display on the iPad Mini (including me) and we got it. I think people complain and ask for too much and when they finally get it, they don't want to pay for it. Reminds me of a current situation happening today. Sad
if you think about how costly high resolution screens have been and how scarce they currently are: $70 isn't too bad. Everyone wanted the retina display on the iPad Mini (including me) and we got it. I think people complain and ask for too much and when they finally get it, they don't want to pay for it. Reminds me of a current situation happening today. Sad
Google don't sell the information to any third parties, that's completely incorrect. They simply use the information to create a fairly vague profile of you to better target advertising to your demographic.
You can view their profile of you at any time, and you can completely opt-out of targeted ads and just receive generic ads.
https://www.google.com/settings/ads...M8kZ_rixGeIPkn88t0xzKQzOz1ddW0bx7aK66GI&hl=en
why are you so upset about how Apple price their products? Looks at the device that you want and decide if the competitor offer you a better value. If Apple offer you the best value, then buy it. If not, buy something else. How Apple price their device is a very different discussion. For every device there is a price elasticity i.e if Apple raise the price of a device, a certain amount of demand will left. If Apple lower the price of a device, a certain additional consumers will buy additional units. I am one of the reason why Apple price their Ipad the way they do, I am ready to upgrade my Ipad 3 to Ipad air because I see value in doing so. If you don't see value in any of the device that they announce today, just move on and enjoy the device of your choice.
For $600 you could basically get the Nexus 7 and the soon to be released Nexus 5 phone...
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I kinda wanted to buy a new iPad Air to replace my 2-year old iPad 3 64GB LTE but don't feel like they're really offering much incentive here to fork out $829 for the upgrade. Was hoping they'd drop the price or increase memory or something besides smaller and lighter. Think I'll wait another year and see what happens...
An upgrade would be $829 - profit from selling old model.
With this kind of specs for only $100 more the iPad mini 1 is way overpriced now. Much like the iPhone 5c isn't worth its retail price compared to the 5s. All the people who waited for Retina in the iPad mini made a very good deal. A 64-bit high-resolution wireless mini computer. This kind of progress in just one year is impressive and shows the true power of the new
This is the problem, people like you think the iPad is a mini computer. IT'S NOT. It's just an iPod touch with a bigger screen. Sure, there's some things you can do on an iPad instead of a computer but $400 for only 16 GB of memory?? I don't think so.
The iPod touch is a mini computer. The iPad mini is just a bigger faster mini computer.
People like me (people who studied computer science) know the difference between memory and storage space.
You can order an 13" MacBook Pro with 16 GB of memory for only $1,599.00 – suddenly $400 sounds cheap.
When you have two computing devices with identical specs, and one is smaller than the other, the smaller one usually costs more, not less. The Retina Mini is almost surely a lower margin product than the iPad Air.
on the other hand:
iPad to iPad Air: 8x CPU, 72x gpu, 4x pixels, 1x Storage.
The memory upgrade prices are ridiculous.
on the other hand:
iPad to iPad Air: 8x CPU, 72x gpu, 4x pixels, 1x Storage.
The memory upgrade prices are ridiculous.
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And would you look at that... they're actually 6 months early. Good job, Apple.
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=9713126#post9713126
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Curious... there seem to be a lot of people bashing the new iPad Mini for being too expensive, yet I don't see the same about the new iPad Air. For all intents and purposes, they're THE SAME iPad - the Air just has a slightly larger screen (but no more screen real estate to go along with it). You're actually getting $100 off the price of an Air for identical internal guts. I think a lot of this is just psychology.(new Retina Mini) WAY too expensive
Your right, all the iPad Air in a smaller package.
But compared to all the 7~8" class tablets, its much more expensive.
It's a full size price in a small package.
While I would love those price, it wouldn't make sense. The new mini is exactly the same as the new iPad air. Same chip and resolution (and I guess same internal as well). You want people to pay 200$ more for just a screen increase?
I don't understand the thought that a smaller device with the same specs should be cheaper. By that logic, shouldn't the iPhone 5s be something like $200 (unsubsidized)? I mean it's *tiny* compared to the iPad Air.