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Apple Issues Invitations for iPad 3 Media Event on March 7

Yayyyyyyy... all this image analysis takes me back to those good old days of blurry pictures of boxes in elevators.:D

I still think it's an image that had been mostly digitally produced and they just removed the home button for some reason. ;)
 
Maybe iOS 5 will last a while, and iOS 6 will be a huuggee update in 2013. For example, iPad 2 shipped with iOS 4.3, iOS 4.1 and 4.2 had already been released. This year iPad 3 is likely to ship with iOS 5.1. Who's to say WWDC's big announcement won't be the "fourth major release of iOS 5, the world's most advance mobile OS".
 
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I think we've seen the big, radical iOS changes for now. I see iOS as being more evolutionary, rather than revolutionary for the time being - little tweaks here and there to refine the experience.
 
They removed the home button in the invite to get online forums talking about it to generate even more buzz along with 1000+ replies.lol
 
Aside from the possible exclusion of the home button that everyone has mentioned, doesn't it seem strange that the entire body of the device shown is black. The leaked iPad 3 rear shells are aluminum. A few people have pointed out that the hand looks small in comparison to the icons. Is it possible that the "And touch" is emphasized for a new touch screen device (e.g. TV/monitor/etc)?

Don't get me wrong, everything points to the iPad 3 making its debut next week, but this image (as I'm sure Apple hoped) raises a lot of interesting questions.

As for the possible loss of a home button, it could go either way. All I know is whatever surprises are revealed will be copied for an Android device before 2012 is out.
 
Exciting and curious

I am exciting and just curious about how many people will go to buy this iPad 3.
Or trade the old for the new one.:D
 
More than anything I am concerned about the price. If the iPad 3 has LTE, retina, and the 4s's camera, I don't see how they could keep the price points the same. I'd love to be proven wrong on that. LTE isn't as big of a deal for me, I usually use my iPad indoors near wifi- but even with all the other hardware upgrades I wonder if the entry model will still be $500. I hope so, for me and everyone else. I can't sign off on a $600+ 16GB iPad just because it has a retina display. If they beef up the GB as well I could consider it. I don't really care about the home button- I use the gestures to control app switching most of the time these days. I certainly would not want to pay more for a buttonless iPad.

Either way I'm excited to see what's going to happen. I'm excited for any potential Apple TV upgrades and iOS previews as well. Only another week, hang in there, macrumors people!
 
b166er said:
More than anything I am concerned about the price. If the iPad 3 has LTE, retina, and the 4s's camera, I don't see how they could keep the price points the same. I'd love to be proven wrong on that. LTE isn't as big of a deal for me, I usually use my iPad indoors near wifi- but even with all the other hardware upgrades I wonder if the entry model will still be $500. I hope so, for me and everyone else. I can't sign off on a $600+ 16GB iPad just because it has a retina display. If they beef up the GB as well I could consider it. I don't really care about the home button- I use the gestures to control app switching most of the time these days. I certainly would not want to pay more for a buttonless iPad.

Either way I'm excited to see what's going to happen. I'm excited for any potential Apple TV upgrades and iOS previews as well. Only another week, hang in there, macrumors people!
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Apple has more money that the US treasury and is worth more than some countries like Poland, Greece, Sweden, Belgium, etc.

I think they could keep the price.
 
Why argue over landscape, portrait, resolution of an image that so many people have cited proof that it was photoshopped? As far as the hand goes, it was obviously photoshopped in and that is why the scale is off so much. Just look at the thumb. The original hand photo was obviously taken over a light box to give it the upward glow to look as if it was lit by the device. That is why the thumb is lit which in the picture is shown over the unlit bezel.

I'm looking forward to event to see what it actually is. The rumors and leaks to date are certainly more telling of what it will likely be, but I wouldn't put any weight behind this image. I do expect much better photoshop skills from marketing team at Apple.

ipad_3_event_invite.jpg
 
Homebutton photoshopped away??

->"Where's the home button??"

Anyone considering that the agency just photoshopped the home button away since the blurry shadow of it in the foreground did not really look good and distracted from the text?
 
toschlebelge said:
->"Where's the home button??"

Anyone considering that the agency just photoshopped the home button away since the blurry shadow of it in the foreground did not really look good and distracted from the text?
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Yeah, many people do (except on MacRumors it seems). Either the home button or the front camera (depending on the rotation) has been photoshopped away, simply because it would look distracting.

The upcoming iPad is not a design refresh. It will most likely just look like the iPad 2 from the outside, with only very minor details changed (slightly thicker and bigger camera, according to the rumors).
 
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Tactile iMac

When Apple launched OSLion, they reversed mouse scrolling, what seemed to be a sign of a Tactile iMac, but, in addition, on the spanish Apple web site, if you go to the Mountain Lion information site (http://www.apple.com/es/macosx/mountain-lion/features.html), you can read that notifications can be easily prompted by "desliza un dedo", what is translated as swipe one finger... It is obvious that you can swipe one finger on your trackpad, but that should always move the cursor!!! If not i am going to get annoyed with notifications prompting and promoting all the time ;D
 
So for all of you that are pinning your hopes and dreams on a quadrupled 2048x1526 sceen:

Would you buy it if this "retina" version was the next logical leap in screen scaling:1600x1200?

Yes, apple would be adding some fragmentation with introduction of a new screen resoluton that isn't at a multiple of other screens. They did twice before. Iphone->ipad->iphone 4. It wouldn't be that tough, and it would be easier to believe then a jump to an unprecidented reolution on ANY size screen.

So, again, woud you buy it?

Sure you would.
 
Double screened macbook?

Has anyone noticed the size of the icon compared to the finger, could it be a double screened laptop? No Keyboard, one touch screen and one viewing screen, It would make sense seeing as they are moving more towards IOS.....

now that would be interesting....
 
iPad Home Button Answer

As many people have noticed in the comments, there does not appear to be a home button on the iPad. Considering the iPad's background is one of Apple's standard pictures, I thought I'd check out how the dots line up myself:

I found out that the iPad would have to be in Portrait, and have 5 apps in the dock. In this picture specifically, the Maps app would be in the middle. The only solution to there not being a Home Button is if the iPad is upside-down (possible with the iPad, not the iPhone).

***try it out yourself, change the background to the one in the picture, turn your iPad to Portrait, and put 5 apps in the dock. See how the dots line up exactly as in the picture?
 
mrgreen4242 said:
Since they'd be making 30% of every app I buy, I'm guessing they won't mind not making the $40-50 they'd earn on a new aTV purchase. Also, getting people investing in apps is a great way to lock them into your platform.
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Maybe.. I'd love you to be right! I just had a troublesome ATV replaced last week, and now I'm wishing I'd waited another 2 weeks before doing it, I might have a new ATV3 for free!

Apple's got quite 'tough' about cutting off support for older devices, so it wouldn't surprise me if they launched a new faster ATV3 with app support and drew a line under it. Adding app support to the ATV2 might just add another model to support/test and thus fragment the iOS market a bit more, particularly when the number of existing ATV2 users isn't huge.

Still, fingers crossed you're right.
 
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