Apple Issues Invitations for iPad 3 Media Event on March 7

[FloatingBones]

I have sympathy for the poor east-coast reporters (like @ihnatko) who have the tradeoff: buy bargain tickets based on the rumored date for an event, or wait for Apple's announcement a week before the event and get charged sky-high prices. It's a dilemma.

Maybe somebody out there sells travel insurance if a rumored Apple announcement doesn't pan out.

 

[FSMBP]

There's a flaw in your theory.

You're not taking into account the difference in resolution.

That doesn't make any sense. My iPhone 3GS' icon placement isn't any different than an iPhone 4 (which has twice the resolution).

 

[nylonsteel]

re original article

its about time

 

[ECUpirate44]

Im thinking they will be available for order online right after the event

Nah they gotta give time for the scalpers to catch a flight to the US.

 

[gibbz]

Could it be the top of a 3G iPad

Where's the camera?

 

[robrob74]

And I literally just paid my credit card off this morning.... And I just got a MacBook air on Friday... I think the wife is gonna be upset with me!

 

[Amazing Iceman]

March 7!!!
"Oh Man, I think the clock is slow..." -VH

 

[trainwrecka]

I am excited for this, my iPad 1 is chugging along fine, and still does what I need but...

I feel the same way. My iPad 1 is still an amazing device that does everything I need. Gonna be pretty hard for me to come up with something after the "but...".

 

[bbeagle]

Why no home button?

Maybe it's really THICK now, and the buttons are just further away

Or maybe it's a TRIANGLE now...

and the buttons are somewhere else!

 

[bushido]

damn it ill be still in india and no chance to sell my iPad 2 before that. Exciting tho

 

[bdkennedy1]

That is the worst looking invitation Apple has sent out in years.

 

[Amazing Iceman]

And I literally just paid my credit card off this morning.... And I just got a MacBook air on Friday... I think the wife is gonna be upset with me!

Wifey saved up $600 for my iPad 3 as anniversary gift
Now I feel kinda guilty spending it...

 

[Peace]

Thats doesn't make the image change positioning... Just quality.

Your theory is flawed. LOL

What I meant was the wallpaper. We're used to seeing a wallpaper that is 1024X768 in size.

This new wallpaper might be a different size thus making the bubbles appear in different places on the screen.

 

[linux2mac]

It's amazing how far behind everyone else is in the tablet game.

I know right. I am still waiting on Ballmer's "We're Coming Full Guns" attack plan. Hold on I just figured it out, he is waiting for iPad 5 before going on the offensive.

 

[Nailedtothex]

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This is so going to be available to purchase on march 7th... Exciting...

 

[bdkennedy1]

Turned in landscape mode?

Where's the home button?

Image

 

[rick98761]

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You know they will have to make new versions of all the wallpaper for the higher res screen right, a slight change in the wallpaper doesnt mean it's a mockup.

 

[UK-MacAddict]

Finally an official announcement. Maybe now we can get some news on upcoming Mac Pro and iMac models

 

[ECUpirate44]

COM claims it's in portrait
http://www.cultofmac.com/149286/app...twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter

 

[r-m]

What I meant was the wallpaper. We're used to seeing a wallpaper that is 1024X768 in size.

This new wallpaper might be a different size thus making the bubbles appear in different places on the screen.

I get what you mean, but no...
Apple just make a higher resolution version, keeping stuff in the same place.
Someone else has used the example of the wallpaper on the iPhone 3GS and the iPhone 4 (higher resolution), and they look the same.

 

[mac4good84]

Finally!

Thank you Apple for finally sending them out. Now we shall finally see...

 

[polaris20]

Please stop posting this and wasting space on every single thread page.

I see your scroll bar is broken?

 

[Menopause]

Smart bezel woooooo !!!!!!

 

[notjustjay]

I'd like to toss in my 2 cents about the Home button. It's definitely needed on the iPhone. On the iPad? I never use it. I do the pinch maneuver all the time. The only place I'd see it useful on the iPad is children... my daughter's hand doesn't seem to be big enough to tell the iPad she is doing the 4 finger pinch.

I actually feel that the Home button is one of the things that makes Apple devices easy to understand. I know that wherever I am, whatever I'm doing, all I need to do is push that button and I'll be back to a known state (the app launcher).

Every time I pick up another tablet, like the RIM PlayBook, any variety of Android devices, Kobo Touch, etc. the first thing I do is figure out how to get to the apps. Left and right swipe across multiple pages is pretty much universal now, but the rest is not intuitive: do I swipe up from the bottom? Down from the top? In from the side? A soft button in the corner?

You can give the iPad to someone who has never seen one before and they'll quickly figure out what the Home button does. How long would it take them to figure out how to do the pinch gesture without you telling them?

 

[Hoteldebotel]

But the question remains, why does this guy's thumb glow so much?

Kind of a weird position for your thumb to start glowing.