I love how everyone is super-dissecting this "and touch" thing but it could just as easily be because "theres something you have to see!" is a well known saying, and iPad is a touch device, so they just added "And touch."
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Apple Issues Invitations for iPad 3 Media Event on March 7
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Uh...pretty much all the time I'm not home.
If you haven't seriously used iPad with 3G, you're seriously missing something.
If this is the actual iPad 3, i think its odd that Apple is actually showing us the new genration device before launch. I know it still leaves a lot to be curious about, but I dont remember an iOS device being shown in this manner before launch.
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I know this isn't that big of a deal, but I'd love to see iTunes LP on my iPad as well. I mean, I think the screen size is PERFECT to access that kind of media. Wishful thinking, but I wonder if more people would be interested in buying the LP's if you could use it on a portable device...
This is right on. 3G is a NECESSITY for 90% of the people I know. You can't ever be out of connection. Ever.
Yesss but most simple doesnt need to be ugly.
Then it would look like nothing - trust me.
It would loose the magic.
The screen shows Maps, Calendar and Keynote.
The Calendar displays the date of the event, and Keynote shows that it’ll be a Keynote event (duh).
What about Maps though ? It shows Apple headquarters, yet the event won’t be held over there. I suspect a major overhaul to Maps, like 3D perspective and 3D buildings. Apple already bought the best company out there to do this. The upcoming iPad could become the best GPS device ever made.
The Calendar displays the date of the event, and Keynote shows that it’ll be a Keynote event (duh).
What about Maps though ? It shows Apple headquarters, yet the event won’t be held over there. I suspect a major overhaul to Maps, like 3D perspective and 3D buildings. Apple already bought the best company out there to do this. The upcoming iPad could become the best GPS device ever made.
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You have to remember that this isn't an actual photo, it's computer generated, pixel density means nothing because it's vector artwork.
Which is why I feel like they have to be messing with us... photoshop'd areas of an iPad 2. Or the thing is identical appearance wise (minus the screen) and this is it... upside down with the camera edited out... actually, who knows or cares. I just want it b/c of the screen.
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MMMmmm... the iPad 2 invite showed an iPad.Not true... iPad 2 invites, Macbook invite, Airport express invites.... Nothing new.
See = tv?
"We have something you really HAVE TO SEE". Could be referring to the retina display on the upcoming third gen iPad, OR/AND could be referring to an Apple TV, either a full fledged set or just an upgrade to Apple TV set top box. Maybe touch has something to do with how you interact with the TV set (like using an iOS touch device to control it?)
"We have something you really HAVE TO SEE". Could be referring to the retina display on the upcoming third gen iPad, OR/AND could be referring to an Apple TV, either a full fledged set or just an upgrade to Apple TV set top box. Maybe touch has something to do with how you interact with the TV set (like using an iOS touch device to control it?)
I did a test and used the bubbles as reference points. This is definitely portrait mode or the wallpaper has been purposely changed for this advertisement.
use the 6 bubbles almost parallel to each other above the pointed finger. i tried to find those same bubbles in landscape mode but couldnt.
use the 6 bubbles almost parallel to each other above the pointed finger. i tried to find those same bubbles in landscape mode but couldnt.
Your avatar is Fry, I think the money image is implied at this point.
But seriously, glad the economy is treating you well.
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That would be so cool!
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That would be so cool!
that's what I'm thinking. i remember hearing rumors about apple using liquid metal tho, which is the same color. however the leaked iPad 3 casing doesn't have this
just look at the standard background they used:
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when the device is in landscape orientation, you don´t see those 6 big bubbles
oh and by the way, you can see the difference between retina and standard-res.
Of course the explanation could be that with a retina display the icons are clearer and thus can be smaller and more can be spaced together on the screen. If you look at the two pics anyway, yours with the 5 bubbles and the one from the invitation, the calendar app is much closer to the 5 bubbles in portrait mode then your is. So maybe the home button is just to the left out of view and you are seeing the amount of screen real estate and the clarity to the right of the home button. Maybe there are now more icons in a row or more stationary ones in the dock. Maybe the stationary icons can be resized and so you can fit more.
Apple won't release a touch screen iMac because fatigue so unless the remote is touch screen then that won't work either... It will be a set top box - Apple has changed from the "only few people have the luxury to own our products" philosophy to the newer "the more hands our products are in the better we can build on them" philosophy so they want to sell this thing for next to nothing, and <$100 does just that.
