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Apple in 'Crunch Mode' Lining Up Apps for iPad 3 Demo and Commercials?

macguy360 said:
your actually not supposed to read ebooks on a backlit screen. It causes strain to the eyes compared to reading an e-ink reader or an actual book.
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Tell that to all the people happily using ibooks, kindle, or nook apps on their ipads today.

Or the zillions of office workers reading stuff on backlit screens for hours every day...

Sorry, that just doesn't hold water anymore.

Sure if you have it on 100% brightness and do black text on white background you'll cause a problem. That's why the readers have sepia tones and brightness adjustments, it reduces the contrast and more closely mimics the light bouncing off a paper or e-ink page.
 
Plus, it's not always so clear cut ....

I know with my 9 year old, she has a refurbished iPod Touch (old 2nd. gen model), and her own iTunes account I set up on it -- configured so it's not linked to a credit card at all. If she wants to buy anything, she has to use an iTunes gift card or the like.

That effectively prevents me from being concerned she's going to run up my credit card unexpectedly - so that's great. But every time she's received $25 or so in credits as Xmas gifts, rewards for doing household chores, etc.? She's blown the vast majority of it on relatively worthless in-app purchases.

At the end of the day, it's her money to do whatever she wants with it, but it's still frustrating to watch her money disappear like that, and then look at her iPod and see how little she really got for it.


macguy360 said:
Not everyone knows about restricting in app purchases. That is why i referred to the similarities between that and the housing crisis. You wouldn't think millions of people would be stupid enough to sign up for an option arm loan for a house but they did. You wouldn't think several thousand parents would give their kids an ipad and not take the time to disable in app purchases but they do. That is why there are literally hundreds of stories about parents getting credit card bill surprises from their kids purchasing in app content from freemium apps.
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CJM said:
People who want a 128GB iPad; how come?

I've recently discovered the joys of media streaming to mine.
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Three reasons:
1. Carrier bandwidth restrictions/throttling/etc. don't allow people to stream unlimited amounts of data.
2. The advantage of having everything with you at all times, in case you can't get an Internet connection (dead spots, airplanes, etc.)
3. Some things (apps, photo collection, etc.) can't be streamed. My 64 GB iPhone is almost full due to my music collection, apps, and photos. While I could pay Spotify $10/month to stream the music, it's free this way. Even if I did, I'd still have photos and apps that can't be streamed.
 
mlmwalt said:
They should just put Infinity Blade 2, they already give them tons of free advertising anyway.... Thought it does have killer graphics....
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A legitimate suggestion. Just have them update the textures and models a bit and everyone will oooh and awww all over again.
 
macguy360 said:
Not everyone knows about restricting in app purchases. That is why i referred to the similarities between that and the housing crisis. You wouldn't think millions of people would be stupid enough to sign up for an option arm loan for a house but they did. You wouldn't think several thousand parents would give their kids an ipad and not take the time to disable in app purchases but they do. That is why there are literally hundreds of stories about parents getting credit card bill surprises from their kids purchasing in app content from freemium apps.
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Apple remedied this issue nearly a year ago (March 2011).

A password is required for an in-app purchase. From that point forward, the default is that purchases can be made for 15 minutes before requiring the password again. Of course, users can change it to "Immediately" if they would like.

Long-story-short, Apple acknowledged the issue and provided a software remedy. Ultimately, parents are responsible for their children and their devices.
 
Almost there!! The only thing I'd ask for now is for them to make it 32, 64, and 128 GB versions.
 
The iPad is worthless without a universal model that will work on AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint, with no contract.
 
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I hope iPad 3 has Siri.
 
macguy360 said:
Freemium is a newer concept that just started taking hold within the last year and now dominates the top grossing apps.

http://appshopper.com/bestsellers/gros/?device=ipad

see if you can notice a trend when you look at that chart.

and in case you think you are smarter than everyone because you start your statement off with "news flash" here's another link that shows how freemium has taken over from January 2011 to June 2011. Freemium was not dominant in the market when the first Ipad came out.

http://blog.flurry.com/bid/65656/Free-to-play-Revenue-Overtakes-Premium-Revenue-in-the-App-Store
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Not a newer concept, has existed since the conception of the App store. Check ngMoco and any FB crossover game. It's gotten rampant lately, sure. But to boycott iPads and claim "total garbage" is way way off. It's like saying the film industry is total garbage, or the music industry total garbage. You're just not looking hard enough.
 
chrmjenkins said:
They didn't have any problem showing off the first retina iPhone. However, there is a legitimate concern about showing a 2k x 1.5k screen on a projector unless the projector is capable of 2560x1600, which I bet it is.
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It would be less expensive to get 4 projectors, i.e. Barco R10's that support 1024x768 natively and align them on a 2x2 rig and project the exact resolution of the iPad. This is what I would do if I were the PM on that show. You get twice the resolution and 4x the brightness.
 
SPUY767 said:
It would be less expensive to get 4 projectors, i.e. Barco R10's that support 1024x768 natively and align them on a 2x2 rig and project the exact resolution of the iPad. This is what I would do if I were the PM on that show. You get twice the resolution and 4x the brightness.
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Ummm... Apple's got 100 billion in the bank and the iOS devices are their big sellers. I don,t think they're going to cheap out on the big presentation. They'll have something custom built if they think it'll look a tiny bit better.
 
Right... Apple is about to launch a refresh of one of its marquee products and it's scrambling to find an app to show it off. Are people that naive? Apple coordinates with trusted partners well in advance. We are talking about one of the most exacting companies in existence when it comes to product presentations. It's not thumbing through the catalog a month out.
 
macguy360 said:
I am personally boycotting future Ipad purchases until Apple reigns in on the types of apps being offered on the App store. It has gone from a really bright future of new technology to total garbage in the 2.5 year span since the Ipad 1 came out.

What is the point of a 2048x1536 resolution if the video streaming apps are all stuck using 480-720p resolution for bandwidth purposes.

What is the point of the new higher resolution if 9 out of 10 games that come out are all designed to just milk money out of the user rather than provide a fun experience? Id rather spend $10 on a game than get it for free and have the mechanics broken because they are geared to make me spend money to make the game tolerable.

Sounds to me like the hardware has moved beyond software and I blame it entirely on Apple. They manage the app store and they let companies make free apps with $99 in app purchases.
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What planet have you been living on? The amount of amazing games and apps available for iPad these days is, if anything, overwhelming.

Stop your silly boycott and start downloading.
 
macguy360 said:
Sounds to me like the hardware has moved beyond software
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This is a GOOD THING. Sucks to have software throttled by the hardware. Better that the software be able to do as much as the users are willing to pay for.

And, as you note, a lot of users aren't willing to pay much at all, if anything, for software. Those of us who DO pay nontrivial amounts do so because the hardware is, in fact, capable of doing more - and software which can use that capability isn't free.
 
CJM said:
People who want a 128GB iPad; how come?

I've recently discovered the joys of media streaming to mine.
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Streaming is awesome and I do it a lot - at home. But I'm not always home and there's so much that can't be streamed, even at home.

My 64GB iPad is more than half-full with apps alone. Most apps are small, but there are a lot of good games that are over 1GB each. You can't play them if they're not on the device, and you can't stream them.

Then there are movies. I have lots of HD movies in my iTunes library that are about 4GB each. Put a couple movies on my iPad, and I'm down to just a few GB for other videos. I like to watch HD TV show episodes at lunch where there is no wifi, so I need the episodes to be on my iPad. Many episodes are over 1GB. And I like to have my favorite 100 or so music videos on there at all times.

Add a couple GB of photos (that don't stream) and that's it. No room for music at all. My 64GB iPad is always completely full and I always wish there were more space. Granted, I will have exactly the same problem with a 128GB iPad, but it won't be as bad. What I could really use is a 3TB iPad. :)
 
osx11 said:
Not going to happen.
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You never know that 128 GB is not gonna happen; the iPhone4 came in 8, 16, and 32 GB while the iPad came in 16, 32, 64. Now the iPhone 4s comes in 16, 32, and 64 GB, doesn't it make sense for the iPad to come in maybe 32, 64, 128 GB?
 
Without going through and doing lots of quoting...

MacGuy - Those are some of the strangest posts I've read! You're not going to buy a new iPad because you don't like some of the apps in the app store? You don't have to download anything and you can do research to determine if the app you're thinking about is worth downloading/paying for. As for Apple banning apps because kids spend their parents money on them, surely that's an issue for the parents to sort out?

As others said the market ultimately determines the price. If people are prepared to pay $99 then it's worth $99.

Regarding the medical imaging, I think you'll find that there are specialist systems for healthcare that hospitals install. They link up the monitors and patient records to a server that can stream the data to the App client on the iDevice. As someone else pointed out they are not uploading xrays to iCloud!
 
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