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Apple Launching Updated iPad Air in 2014, No 12.9-Inch iPad or New iPad Mini Until 2015
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True. Even the iPhone 5 was a replica of the 4, only stretched. Face on, it had the same old faceplate and huge bezel.
Also, there is a massive amount of black border around the screen, between the active pixels and the bezel. Especially on the white iPhone, it is hideous. No other phone has this, as bad. Jonny I've is way overrated, as demonstrated by iOS7 and the lack of imagination since iPhone 4.
Uhh, no. But there is no need to be blind either. There are trade-offs to every product. Apple just has an un-godly long refresh cycle, especially for computers. So, most likely you are buying outdated, cheaper components at full price. Thus, the large margins Apple enjoys.
Me too. they created parity with the specs this past year they will likely keep that going. same internals as much as possible with the size difference and basically same release window
as for the 13" iPad, i suspect it is on the road to the same 'this year, no delayed cause' rumor mill of the real TV
the only way i can see something like that is if it can be wall mounted or set up on a table, even moved between and work something like a pixel sense with even Airplay between models. for things like we see getting used in movies etc
and it would likely be marketed for shops, museums etc not really home use
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There is unlikely to be a Retina Air. Why? because that's basically a Retina MBP.
I suspect they are moving to dump the basic pro in the future and the lines will be the MacBook Air and the Pro will be the Retina. Perhaps one MBP Classic model with superdrive sticks around for a while rather like the iPod Classic has.
With this move there might be a 11" MBP added to the line up which might be where the screen rumors are coming from
or they saw a prototype and think it's for a real product no tested and rejected
They recently re-started production of the iPhone 4 outside the US, so I wouldn't put it past them to do this.
And if they do re-start production of the 4, that doesn't mean they will start a marketing campaign about it. They're not marketing the iPad 2 right now either- every ad for the iPad you see is all about the air.
Doing this could actually be a benefit to the Air, since showing it next to the 4 would help to emphasize why it deserves the "Air" in its name. Next to the 2 that isn't as obvious...
which is....make more slim? slimmer than slim jim?
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I wouldn't say failure meaning 100 percent failure... but haven't been improving much except specs.
Methodical might be a better term. Move too quickly and you don't have time for polish. Do too many things and you don't have the ability to focus.
If you like focused, polished products, then you like slow. Complaining about the speed is just foolish.
I think they could due to possible cannibalization of the new retina ipad mini vs normal iPads (ehll they still sell the ipad 2) due to its stronger hardware performance than ever (big jump this time). I say they might keep the same retina mini, but maybe $50-100 off current price or just add touch-id and keep the hardware more or less the same.
If perfection means bugs and crashes on iOS 7, then you're just too easily impressed.
The i5 in a Surface Pro 2 can already support up to 3840 x 2160 resolution, which is more than the predicted resolution of a retina 13" mba, so what are you talking about?
That's not to say we will see a rMBA. I think Apple will drag its heels here because as much as consumers would like it they would be concerned about cannibalizing the higher margin rMBP's.
how did no body see the iPhone 5 being discontinued when the cheap iPhone 5c was coming out. I felt it was common sense, same went for the 17" Pro being discontinued. It's sales figures were terrible. Apple is not going to release products that take away sales from other high margin products. I guarantee there is no rerelease of an iPad4.
I disagree with that. Have you seen the S4's screen? I love Apple, but there new iPhone will equal what the S4 has had for months...
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Well, I see what Samsung is capable of. Maybe Apple needs new people. Or they needed Steve. Sorry...Apples been pissing me off lately. And I'm not foolish.
yes that is common sense. the 4s is their free offering. The iPhone 5 wouldn't be that since it's a better quality phone than the 5c and costs Apple more money to produce. Please tell me you weren't serious.
4s- free
5c-$99
5s-$199-$399
covers all parts of the market. same way they kept the 3Gs when they had the4 and the 4s all being sold. Apple has followed this pattern of having a free offering for years now.
The first release of Mac OS X took years and was only half-baked when it finally came out. It took several point releases (and years) to get it into pretty good shape. 10.0 wasn't of "very high quality", and if you measure the time until 10.2 or 10.4 or whichever release could be called high quality it wasn't rapid.
However 10.0 was so much awesomely better than OS 9 that many who didn't have to get real work done with OS 9 apps joyously used it immediately. I certainly did.
