Friscohoya
macrumors 6502a
Unfortunately you are probably right...I still dont get why the iPad needs a camera. Front facing for face time perhaps but the rear one is just a waste. I'd rather pay $50 less.
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Apple Issues Invitations for iPad 3 Media Event on March 7
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Unfortunately you are probably right...I still dont get why the iPad needs a camera. Front facing for face time perhaps but the rear one is just a waste. I'd rather pay $50 less.
TallManNY
macrumors 601
My buddies home button is broken but there is a software fix allowing a floating home button built into the accessibility feature in settings. It is a nice workaround, but it puts a floating home button on his screen, so it isn't visually appealing.
I'm skeptical that they can get rid of the home button on the iPhone. But the iPad is meant to be operated with two hands, so they could put a button on the side or go to multi-touch moves.
I'm skeptical that they can get rid of the home button on the iPhone. But the iPad is meant to be operated with two hands, so they could put a button on the side or go to multi-touch moves.
Fraaaa
macrumors 65816
If iPad 3 when multigesture only I wouldn't mind which would make the home button not really have a purpose.
Either way Im frickin excited.
Either way Im frickin excited.
I think you will see some difference without a loupe, maybe not a major one but it should be easily noticeable. Although if I owned any kind of iPad (1 or 2) I wouldn't even bother thinking about getting the 3 😀
More importantly, I don't totally agree with you regarding the boring character of the last presentations (nor that presentation matters just as much as the product itself), but I fully agree that none of the one's you mentioned is great of a speaker.
What just popped trough my head though was why we've never seen Ive take the stage, I mean even when Steve was alive and (semi)wealthy, towards the end when he begun to divide stage time with co-workers more frequently??
Macopotamus
macrumors regular
Anyone who has used an Android phone or tablet knows the frustration of not having a home button. I don't think Apple is going that direction, at least anytime soon, people are overanalyzing the image.
Anyway, credit card ready, countdown to Wednesday begins!
Anyway, credit card ready, countdown to Wednesday begins!
MattInOz
macrumors 68030
Yes. it bothers me that:-
The button is a weak link in the design and artificially shortens the useful life of the device. It needs improvement at least for that reason.
The physical device doesn't dictate how it should be held other than the button. The use orientation is determined by the app in question I'm using, the button requires me to think about which way a pick up the device.
When you use the device in the dark the button isn't so apparent,* again making thing about the device not what i'm trying to get done with device.
A gesture would always be the same relative to screen content.
It would seem the button determines the size of the bezel. Which could be half the size, unless you hold the device like Apple shows you to. Which to me is just the worst way to hold the device. So a smaller bezel would allow greater thumb reach.
Why not to start with, not being an engineer would suggest battery usage and cost of technology reason. I'm imagining that the updated device will use gestures that start off screen so they are still single finger guestures. So additional digitizer lines beyond the screen that can tell the difference between deliberate gesture or casual touch well enough. Maybe new screen can be read without the back-light on at all. Maybe finer processes allow for regions of the sensor to be switched on independently. Maybe none/all of the above but/and some other technology.
*Yes bad for eyes, but good for relationship.
What if you look at the image on an iPhone 4? 😉
For the record, the home button has not had the negative effects on my life as the poster above me. I could do with or without it.
sulpfiction
macrumors 68040
You are rationalising, the home button is the very staple of their whole line up, no one is ditching it any time soon, it would mean a whole rethinking of ways for the device to function and retraining of end users. Apple might as well stick a gun and shoot their feet before ditching the home button as they are ever expanding into more and more markets. This is simply not happening, not now, and not in the foreseeable future. I ve been following apple since back when people were saying what the hell do we need an iPod and then a tablet for? I might be able to tell a few more things more than you can, no offence.
its obvious that the ipad is tilted in landscape mode. but look at the quality of that ical icon, my god it almost feels real!!
Or, see the Retina Display and touch using new gestures and a capacitive Home button.
SOMEBODY JUST ANSWER ME WHETHER THEY THINK IT WILL BE THINNER THICKER OR THE SAME DESPITE PREVIOUS RUMORS😡
Chupa Chupa
macrumors G5
A) Stop yelling. (All caps are a no-no)
B) It's likely to be slightly thicker. But we won't know anything for sure until next week.
CalWizrd
Suspended
In your pocket?? Who are you, Paul Bunyan? This would be a good week to give up drugs.
Mr. Gates
macrumors 68020
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Gates
Then again, that leak was .....a leak.
Most likely controlled.
Same with the screen.
Look at all the buzz it's created. People are whipped into a frenzy
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Sorry, I had to quote myself there.
Are you calling me a retard ?
You know, I get time outs for the simplest things. It's always because a person like you is a Moderatator.
You are a too much! Apple crazed and irrational. People like me who just like technology and want to chime in don't have a chance.
I always speak the truth. I'm no troll.
Apple DOES create leaks. It's documented. You don't want to believe it ? Well then, who it mentally inferior ?
lucabrasi
macrumors member
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?4Life
Well do you personally think it will be thinner and/or lighter?😛
Meltdown witnessed.
It has a home button.
Just theres people who hate buttons and the same people who want 5" Iphone screens.
Apple is great but some peoples silly ideas are not. 🙄
I have to agree. With the Smart Cover the Camera and home button are in the wrong spot. In portrait mode I think the home button will be on the middle left while the camera on the middle right.
It is used most often in that orientation so why not.
btw iPad 3 will be my first.
CalWizrd
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So I guess it is used in that orientation most often based upon your personal iPad experience?
sulpfiction
macrumors 68040
That map icon is hardly "there randomly". They've used that map icon on invitations in the past to show the location of the event. Most recently on the 4S invitation. And they have used the clock before as well. It has NOTHING to do with revamped apple maps.
