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Apple Online Store Down Ahead of Today's Media Event
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that is one ugly muva of a speaker grill
Hey, if it cooks hamburgers and hotdogs who cares.
with a stylus pen?? this makes no sense at all!
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here in the USA the Xoom will have LTE and Verizon charges $20 for a 1GB data plan. totally useless
They don't usually take the store down this early. Normally it goes down just before the event itself but this is 3 hours early.
Personally i'm hoping for new minis and imacs.
Also expecting mobile me updates and a free price point. It's just not worth paying for. And they built that huge data center for it so I can see it going free to compete with, well, everyone else.
Personally i'm hoping for new minis and imacs.
Also expecting mobile me updates and a free price point. It's just not worth paying for. And they built that huge data center for it so I can see it going free to compete with, well, everyone else.
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Please let me be the first person to tell you to shut UP. I would put large sums of money on the no retina thing and it shocks me that people are a) still expecting it and b) going to be whining when it doesn't happen.
I hope hope hope you're just a troll.
Thunderbolt connectivity would be amazing; it would also mean that the next iPhone would probably also receive thunderbolt.
I can't wait!
I can't wait!
Just want to preserve my predictions, most of which are unoriginal, but hey...
While today's event concerns the imminent release of the iPad 2, it will be more of an iPad 1.5 release. Similar to when the iPhone went from 3G to 3GS, I think iPad 2 will have some modest cosmetic changes (thinner and lighter) and introduce front/rear cameras. There will be improvements on the screen, but not to the level of "retina display." That'll be about it for the iPad 2, except for something new with the speaker and (out on a limb) display mini-port so you can use your iPad with a display - the iPad becoming a touch-keyboard.
More of the emphasis will be on Steve Jobs making a brief appearance, iOS 4.3 and the mysterious data center. iOS 4.3 will allow some sort of streamlined tethering. The data center will allow you to hold all your iTunes purchased music "in the cloud" for free, and for the current $99 MobileMe annual subscription price, you can "push" your ripped iTunes content into the cloud. I'm betting everyone gets about 100 gigs for the $99 MobileMe fee.
And that'll be about it. I think you'll see a drop in iPad pricing overall because they have to get people excited about the modest changes, and because they know that the consensus is to wait until iPad 3, which is apparently around the corner as early as Fall.
I bet their stock price drops about $10 today.
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Wishlist - iPad no longer has to be synched with a computer. iPhones and iPads can synch against the iPad.
While today's event concerns the imminent release of the iPad 2, it will be more of an iPad 1.5 release. Similar to when the iPhone went from 3G to 3GS, I think iPad 2 will have some modest cosmetic changes (thinner and lighter) and introduce front/rear cameras. There will be improvements on the screen, but not to the level of "retina display." That'll be about it for the iPad 2, except for something new with the speaker and (out on a limb) display mini-port so you can use your iPad with a display - the iPad becoming a touch-keyboard.
More of the emphasis will be on Steve Jobs making a brief appearance, iOS 4.3 and the mysterious data center. iOS 4.3 will allow some sort of streamlined tethering. The data center will allow you to hold all your iTunes purchased music "in the cloud" for free, and for the current $99 MobileMe annual subscription price, you can "push" your ripped iTunes content into the cloud. I'm betting everyone gets about 100 gigs for the $99 MobileMe fee.
And that'll be about it. I think you'll see a drop in iPad pricing overall because they have to get people excited about the modest changes, and because they know that the consensus is to wait until iPad 3, which is apparently around the corner as early as Fall.
I bet their stock price drops about $10 today.
EDIT:
Wishlist - iPad no longer has to be synched with a computer. iPhones and iPads can synch against the iPad.
I wondered the same. If I knew they were in stock, I would so swing by there on the way home today.
There won't be a retina display I'm very certain of that.. Honestly I'm not too excited.. I do hope to see a bit more of OSX Lion, I don't care too much about the iPad, sure its a good product, but Its not something I find useful at this time, and plus its fairly expensive for me..
I played sick today (cough) and live about 10 minutes from a store. Put it this way, I'll have the keys in my hand ready to leave the second they announce they are available in limited quantities today.
I know. But here in Europe the 499 version was wifi only 16gb. Now it has(according to amazon.de) 3g already in it!
Could mean two things:
-ipad wifi only will be even cheaper than 1st gen
-wifi only is discontinued.
the last option would be quite logical when mobileme would be free. then the ipad would really become a cloudbased machine.
I know, it's strange huh. I think some people with fat fingers still like to use a stylus
That's not what Apple does. While it's being pushed it's not widely available yet.
ipad 3 MAY, just may have a combo chip with all the technologies on it, if possible. There are already all kinds of jams on the CDMA networks in all the countries where it is being used.
Can't wait for carrier independent chips and switching on the fly. I'd rather not have a subsidized version and would like a version that works anywhere I can get the best reception.
Kind of like a gas station approach you log in to the carrier in that area where the price and service is best and they charge you through itunes.
I just go with prepaid uSIM (whomever is cheapest at the given moment.) And, it's now 80Mb/s
Given that, it would be nice to see multi-uSIM capabilities on the iP5, but that's hoping too much.