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Apple Issues Invitations for iPad 3 Media Event on March 7
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Why are you posting these stupid macros? Someone made the relevant point about depth of field in response to your comment 'hurr Calendar is the only icon not blurry; this means something'. Your comment is either lazy sarcasm or just wrong.
Probably somewhere in between.
Won't be the same day. Eager buyers need time to make excuses for absence at work. No need to wait a month, when the last iPad successfully released less than 2 weeks after reveal.
You still dont get it. Many people keep the iPad at home, and take the 3G iPhone (or other 3G phone) out with them.
So I'll restate my point. Unless you've got a 100 yard house and can only afford 1 access point at the far end, you dont need 3G at home.
How about the opposite question... why a home button? Why not a gesture?
You're ridiculous. I do have fairly small hands - so what? That guy seems to have sausage fingers. But, now that I think about it, forgive me, I forgot we now live in a world where it's more common to have fingers an inch in diameter.
As for the second point....First of all, that's like saying "Oh no, the iPad shouldn't have a display... what about the blind?" .... Missing fingers? There are already multitouch gestures on Macs and iPads.
Also, I highly doubt the severely arthritic are using iPads... how could they use gestures, typing, or multitouch? If they are, I highly doubt Apple will base their design decisions on the 0.1% of the iPad-using population with missing fingers or the geriatric with crippling arthritis. Ridiculous posts...
Actually, If the lining of the bubbles suggests that it is, infact, in portrait mode. (Found on CoM, Connor Turnbull)
Maybe the keynote icon suggests that wireless keynote imaging will be a feature - paired with the new ATV?
I thought the keynote icon was because Apple is introducing it at a keynote event.
It's called accommodation within reason. Apple will not base whether or not to remove a home button on amputees and the arthritic.
I really hope they improve their map app to include turn-by-turn navigation. I mean, I am fine with TomTom, but it would be nice to have an Apple one integrated into the system, because you know they will do it right.
I don't understand why they would announce their new map app at their Apple TV/iPad 3 announcement, but Apple rarely does anything by accident. I can't see them having had the Map icon there randomly. I mean, why not put a clock icon showing 10AM instead?
I don't understand why they would announce their new map app at their Apple TV/iPad 3 announcement, but Apple rarely does anything by accident. I can't see them having had the Map icon there randomly. I mean, why not put a clock icon showing 10AM instead?
Interesting point! Maybe this is an even BIGGER iPad?
Also, on the invite, there's a weird light and reflection in the person's thumb. Something thats obviously not coming from the iPad itself. So obviously the hand was photoshopped into the picture. But still, I wonder what that reflection is of?
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This logic sounds good to me. See and touch as in ipad, apple tv, and their integration because you can see it on your TV and touch it on your iPad.
I would argue that any photo in any ad these days is run through PS in some form or another. Wether just to correct some color or to assemble multiple images into a single believable (depending on who is doing the work) image.
In this ad, the main importance is not to accurately show off, in detail, the new iPad. It is to draw your attention to "Wednesday 7". Above all, that is what they want you to know. If they were to show the bright aluminum frame along the bottom of the iPad, it would distract from the Calendar icon because your eyes are drawn to the lightest areas of an image first. Yes, the icon would still be brighter than the frame but by darkening the frame there is less competition with the Calendar icon. That highlight sure is bright on the thumb, though.
Not to mention they have also blurred out everything on the screen, other than some water droplets, so your eyes go straight to the Calendar icon. AND they added a finger pointing to the Calendar icon. Why don't they just hit you over the head with a hammer?
To my eye, that is not a normal sized adult finger and it's not a child's finger. It is an adults finger scaled. I would also argue that the hand/finger was not shot over the iPad as would seem in the image. The hand was most likely shot over an opaque piece of plexiglass with a strobe beneath. With a well exposed hand, a talented artist could easily pace it in an image with the iPad and add the shadowing, highlighting, and reflections in PS. I would even say the iPad itself is made up of multiple images. I've seen it done with automobiles.
I don' t know exactly what was done in this particular image but these are all very common techniques and have been done for at least the last 17 or so years that I have been witness to.
My conclusions after all that?
There is still a Home button.
The frame is still aluminum and not blackened/darkened as some have mentioned.
As in most any ad you see, PS was used. And it really doesn't matter, anyway. They want you to know it's the 7th and has something to do with the iPad.
I look forward to buying one!
In this ad, the main importance is not to accurately show off, in detail, the new iPad. It is to draw your attention to "Wednesday 7". Above all, that is what they want you to know. If they were to show the bright aluminum frame along the bottom of the iPad, it would distract from the Calendar icon because your eyes are drawn to the lightest areas of an image first. Yes, the icon would still be brighter than the frame but by darkening the frame there is less competition with the Calendar icon. That highlight sure is bright on the thumb, though.
Not to mention they have also blurred out everything on the screen, other than some water droplets, so your eyes go straight to the Calendar icon. AND they added a finger pointing to the Calendar icon. Why don't they just hit you over the head with a hammer?
To my eye, that is not a normal sized adult finger and it's not a child's finger. It is an adults finger scaled. I would also argue that the hand/finger was not shot over the iPad as would seem in the image. The hand was most likely shot over an opaque piece of plexiglass with a strobe beneath. With a well exposed hand, a talented artist could easily pace it in an image with the iPad and add the shadowing, highlighting, and reflections in PS. I would even say the iPad itself is made up of multiple images. I've seen it done with automobiles.
I don' t know exactly what was done in this particular image but these are all very common techniques and have been done for at least the last 17 or so years that I have been witness to.
My conclusions after all that?
There is still a Home button.
The frame is still aluminum and not blackened/darkened as some have mentioned.
As in most any ad you see, PS was used. And it really doesn't matter, anyway. They want you to know it's the 7th and has something to do with the iPad.
I look forward to buying one!
So? It seems to me that Apple's gone to great lengths to make their devices accessible across all kinds of populations to the detriment of no population.
Whatever your point is, I have no doubt that one of Apple's principles is 'designs which accommodate more people are better than those which accommodate fewer'. It's better to have that as a design principle than saying 'here's an ideal type to design for and just ignore the disabled because they're an exceptional minority class'.
Thinner, Lighter?
What do you guys think about it being thinner or lighter...?
It is not like Apple at all to ever take a step back with a product?
Please give some feedback
What do you guys think about it being thinner or lighter...?
It is not like Apple at all to ever take a step back with a product?
Please give some feedback
An inch in diameter, and about a half-inch wide. The app icons are about a half-inch wide. Your fingertip should completely obscure an app icon. Either the hand model in the invitation has unusually small hands ... or the image is altered, as many of us have stated.
Bad analogy. Blind people can't see an iPad display. But people with a missing finger or two, CAN use an iPad. Forcing them to use all fingers to do such a common task as going "Home" is short-sighted. No, the Home button will remain, even if moved.
The number of people (baby boomers) reaching the age of such ailments is staggering. Apple will accommodate them by keeping a Home button. Insulting responses.
Keeping a Home button somewhere on the device is accommodation within reason. Especially when your suggested alternative is that amputees and the arthritic must use 4-5 fingers for such a common task.
I just talked to Tim Cook and he revealed to me the following features for iPad 3:
- LTE/4G capability;
- Retina display;
- 32/64/128GB options;
- tactile feedback surface/virtual home button;
- Thunderbolt port;
- Optimized dual-core processor, leading edge GPU.
Mark my words and see for yourself on the 7th...
Obviously this is a joke, but a Thunderbolt port? Really? What percentage of iPad users are going to use Thunderbolt devices with their iPad, 0.005%? I don't think apple is adding cost, hassle, etc. to please the 1 in 20,000 users who would use such a port.
Sure, on this site many people are techies and fan boys so queue the "I have TB devices and would love this" comments but your parents, grandparents, school children, and non-techie adults (about 80% of the iPad buyers) never heard of thunderbolt, much less own devices for it, and even much less would see the need to hook those devices up to an iPad.
LTE/4G is probable with all the rumors swirling around, retina display is a given. The storage depends on the cost, but its not TOO far fetched that a 128GB option may arrive (even if the 16GB is not pushed out).
The GPU/CPU is a no brainer, I have no doubt we're going to see improvements there and with the graphics (due to the retina display being more hungry for power).
Tactile feedback. Id love to see some ideas on how this would work. But some sort of localized vibration or something could be interesting. I guess we'll have to wait to find out!
Whatever Apple does its sure to blow competitors away for at least another year, because even though Android tablets come out every month it seems, Apple is going to be on the shelf for 12 months so they have to make sure they are so far ahead that they can wait 12 more months for the iPad 4.
OK so who might be running this keynote? Based on past keynotes my guess is we won't see Bob Mansfield or Jony Ive as part of the presentation (other than being involved in a product intro video if there is one). I'm assuming Tim Cook will kick it off but will he turn it over to Phil Schiller and Scott Forstall? And maybe Eddy Cue if there is an Apple TV announcement?
My guess is Phil Schiller will probably run most of the keynote (didn't he do the Paris expo in 2004 and Mac World 2009?) and throw it over to Scott Forstall or someone else if they're highlighting specific software/app features. I'd love to see Jony Ive on stage but he says he hates doing presentations so my guess is we won't see him up there.
My guess is Phil Schiller will probably run most of the keynote (didn't he do the Paris expo in 2004 and Mac World 2009?) and throw it over to Scott Forstall or someone else if they're highlighting specific software/app features. I'd love to see Jony Ive on stage but he says he hates doing presentations so my guess is we won't see him up there.
Capacitive Buttons in place of Home button
We might be getting soft buttons in place of the "Home Button". This photo was taken in Landscape to hide the surprise. Very likely, the soft buttons are at the usual location of the "Home Button", waiting for us to TOUCH....
We will really want to see "Retina display" and touch the capacitive buttons!
To truely enter the Education sector, Apple might also announce that iPad 3 now supports non-capacitive Stylus. Imagine, writing formulae, equations, graphs using thick-point tip of the current capacitive stylus - Yuks, Apple can do better than this!
We might be getting soft buttons in place of the "Home Button". This photo was taken in Landscape to hide the surprise. Very likely, the soft buttons are at the usual location of the "Home Button", waiting for us to TOUCH....
We will really want to see "Retina display" and touch the capacitive buttons!
To truely enter the Education sector, Apple might also announce that iPad 3 now supports non-capacitive Stylus. Imagine, writing formulae, equations, graphs using thick-point tip of the current capacitive stylus - Yuks, Apple can do better than this!
No home button = no buy
What the hell is wrong with apple nowadays?
What's wrong with them? They don't cater to people who select purchases on bizarre criteria, of course.
(A significant number of people, who would otherwise buy an iPad 3, will not do so without a home button? Come on.)
Will it be thinner? That remains a huge issue for me...with the iPhone 4S...a great product that I own and use everyday...the style is now 2.5 years old...will this design of the iPad 2 live on through that iPad 3??? I really hope not...what are your guys' thoughts?
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Ok well since the iPad currently has a home button I think it's more appropriate to ask for reasoning/justification for why it should be removed. Is the home button really bothering anyone? Is it taking up unnecessary space? Why is a gesture better than the home button? Why didn't Apple just use gestures to begin with?