This is what I'd thought, I'm glad for once that my reality matches the golden master.
I'd completely disregarded the "iPad three in the fall rumors" the first time I heard of them.
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Apple Pushes iPad 3 to 2012 due to Retina Display
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This is what I'd thought, I'm glad for once that my reality matches the golden master.
I'd completely disregarded the "iPad three in the fall rumors" the first time I heard of them.
It does not make much sense, does it? I suspect a desperate competitor put out that rumour just before the iPad 2 launched so that some people who care about specs would hold off buying it until, hopefully, something better came to the market. Considering how much money is being invested in tablets and how unsuccessful the competition has been with them, something like that is entirely possible.
iPad 1? iPad 2, surely?
I own an iPad 1 and am looking forward to iPad 3, with huge enthusiasm. iPad 2 owners have only just purchased their product in the last six months, so this talk of retina displays will no doubt break their hearts more than ours.
The suggested "retina display" resolution for the iPad 3 is to double the number of pixels per axis: 2048 x 1536. That would increase the pixel density from 132 ppi to 264 ppi, which is not as high density as the iPhone 4.
It still counts as a "retina display" because the iPad is typically held further away than the iPhone. You would be able to see the pixels if you held the iPad as close to your face as you would typically hold an iPhone 4.
Doubling the pixel density will result in four times as many pixels on the screen, since there are twice as many pixels on each axis. All existing graphics can simply be pixel doubled, as with older graphics on the iPhone 4.
If the number of pixels on the screen was doubled, that would increase the pixel density by sqrt(2) = 1.414..., i.e. the resolution would be about 1448 x 1086, 186 ppi. Scaled graphics would not look as tidy as with a 2:1 pixel ratio.
I will plan to buy an iPad only when its IPS display reaches "retina" resolution. Then it will be a nice toy for amateur photographers like me. At this time I really prefer a laptop.
Just from observation, iPad owners have on average the same arm length as iPhone users. Sure on occasion like watching hulu or a movie, but most of the time I have seen people holding it as close to them as they would an iPhone.
The iPad 3 rumour will for me go down as the most ridiculous Apple rumour ever.
As best as I can tell, the entire rumour started because John Gruber said something along the lines of it would make more sense (according to him) for Apple to switch the iPad release schedule to September as it was closer to the holiday season and fit in with back-to-school schedules.
He had absolutely no basis for this in fact (and said so). That aside, I thought at the time his logic was fallacious. Apple can sell every iPad they can produce. They want to smooth the demand not front load it. Releasing earlier in the year achieves this.
I see it this way:
Number of stories about a nonexistent product = 0
Stories about a nonexistent product that gets rumoured then cancelled = 2
There's certainly a lot more pageviews in the second option.
As best as I can tell, the entire rumour started because John Gruber said something along the lines of it would make more sense (according to him) for Apple to switch the iPad release schedule to September as it was closer to the holiday season and fit in with back-to-school schedules.
He had absolutely no basis for this in fact (and said so). That aside, I thought at the time his logic was fallacious. Apple can sell every iPad they can produce. They want to smooth the demand not front load it. Releasing earlier in the year achieves this.
I see it this way:
Number of stories about a nonexistent product = 0
Stories about a nonexistent product that gets rumoured then cancelled = 2
There's certainly a lot more pageviews in the second option.
I'm shedding a single tear, thinking of how this great little display will trump the resolution of the "Full HD" 1080 monitors the PC industry has been sticking on our desks for the past few years...and no end in sight.
That not news what is news is Google buys Motorola oh mama things in the patent world are about to get fun.
If this news is real then let the fun start.
Ipad 3 in 2011 made no sense but it was fun to read fangirls going hog wild with the rumors.
If this news is real then let the fun start.
Ipad 3 in 2011 made no sense but it was fun to read fangirls going hog wild with the rumors.
I still don't get why everyone's so quick to proclaim this as ludicrous. Let's start with the fact that Apple included specs for retina display for the iPad in the iOS5 SDK. We know that iOS5 is going to be released with iPhone 5 next month. A retina display iPad would not have to be a replacement iPad so much as an upgrade option for the iPad 2. My only questions were about engineering issues and it looks like from this report that they have indeed run into them. But I'll bet anything that they have a working prototype (just guessing) and now just need to figure out how to mass produce it. They came out with Retina display over a year ago now. It's not unreasonable to think that they have found a manufacture who can or is close to being able to mass produce a 9.7" version. If they were capable of mass producing it at this time, I think it's actually reasonable that they would. Again, not as an iPad 3, but as a supplemental version. It's not like Apple hasn't had a history of short release between updates. Between 2006 and 2008, new Macbook Pros or updated versions were release every 6 months.
Why would they do it this quickly? Right now, they're doing fine with iPad 2 but there's competition in spite of what Apple fans claim. But if they were able to mass produce it by Sept/Oct and they did release it, it would effectively kill the entire rest of the tablet market. There's not too many other tech firms out there who could engineer a retina display update within 6-7 months after they released their own tablet. Esp since most of them haven't made close to the profits that Apple has made on their tablet.
Why would they do it this quickly? Right now, they're doing fine with iPad 2 but there's competition in spite of what Apple fans claim. But if they were able to mass produce it by Sept/Oct and they did release it, it would effectively kill the entire rest of the tablet market. There's not too many other tech firms out there who could engineer a retina display update within 6-7 months after they released their own tablet. Esp since most of them haven't made close to the profits that Apple has made on their tablet.
all I can say now is....
oh god, I really don't understand how some of you actually thought the ipad 3 would be coming out this year. I mean, just.... what was your logic? what were you thinking? why would that make sense to you? at any point, it didnt seem stupid to you?
some people I will never understand.
oh god, I really don't understand how some of you actually thought the ipad 3 would be coming out this year. I mean, just.... what was your logic? what were you thinking? why would that make sense to you? at any point, it didnt seem stupid to you?
some people I will never understand.
Im not one of them. Skipped the iPad2 upgrade simply because it wasnt worth it and a minimal upgrade. In doing so, i figured on waiting a further year for the iPad3. Thats how it has panned out and will likely be a substantial jump up from my original which i still use as much as ever. This announcement however, may appease some of the ipad2 upgraders who have long since realized they wasted their money but have to continue to justify their investment
My gripes about iPad 2
I'll start with the most glaring omission. How do I take a USB or FireWire hard drive and connect it to the iPad? How do I connect an FAT-formatted SD card to the iPad and mount it as a normal drive? The latter must work now, because that's what I regularly use to transfer files. If the answer remains "You can't, but you can buy a laptop," that's not an answer. Where is the SD card slot? Where is the USB port? Where is the video-out? The problem with using adapters connected to the only port on the iPad, which is proprietary, is that it can only do one thing at a time. I need I/O ports, different ports for different tasks, and I'm being told that the iPad won't natively support normal file transfers.
Apple doesn't define what a tablet PC does. The buyer does, and I say that a tablet PC must have basic file transfer capabilities and a collection of normal I/O ports. It's pretty useless to me without those capabilities. There is no good reason why the iPad can't mount USB devices and SD memory cards as normal drives, and without cracking whatever Apple did to disable this functionality.
Another glaring problem has been the apparent restrictions surrounding iOS. Software that I want to run I'm being told will never be supported because of Apple's refusal to sufficiently open the iOS code to developers, and because of restrictions in its application store, to which the iPad is locked. I don't fully understand this problem, because I think that I should be able to run and distribute whatever software I want without Apple getting in the way, but the bottom line is that what I want will never be running on iOS. It will, however, run on other tablet operating systems, and that's what gets my attention.
The reason I started looking at a tablet PC was to replace the laptop in my bag. If I can't do that, I'm not going to buy a tablet PC. Oh, but I found that I could do that, once I started looking away from the iPad glare. This reminds me of another problem. Why does the iPad not use a better screen that isn't covered by a reflective surface? The thing looks like a mirror, and it's awful in the sunlight. I know there's something better, because I've seen screens that look great in direct sunlight. Why doesn't Apple implement this technology?
The competitors may be regarded by Apple zealots as mere annoyances, but they provide tools that do things better than the iPad. Apple may be pleasing the masses, whether they buy because of a herd mentality or because it has simply been the best tablet PC for consumers, but it isn't the best tablet PC for me. I was hoping that the iPad 3 would resolve at least some of these sticking points, but now I'm looking elsewhere for a tablet to meet my requirements.
I'll start with the most glaring omission. How do I take a USB or FireWire hard drive and connect it to the iPad? How do I connect an FAT-formatted SD card to the iPad and mount it as a normal drive? The latter must work now, because that's what I regularly use to transfer files. If the answer remains "You can't, but you can buy a laptop," that's not an answer. Where is the SD card slot? Where is the USB port? Where is the video-out? The problem with using adapters connected to the only port on the iPad, which is proprietary, is that it can only do one thing at a time. I need I/O ports, different ports for different tasks, and I'm being told that the iPad won't natively support normal file transfers.
Apple doesn't define what a tablet PC does. The buyer does, and I say that a tablet PC must have basic file transfer capabilities and a collection of normal I/O ports. It's pretty useless to me without those capabilities. There is no good reason why the iPad can't mount USB devices and SD memory cards as normal drives, and without cracking whatever Apple did to disable this functionality.
Another glaring problem has been the apparent restrictions surrounding iOS. Software that I want to run I'm being told will never be supported because of Apple's refusal to sufficiently open the iOS code to developers, and because of restrictions in its application store, to which the iPad is locked. I don't fully understand this problem, because I think that I should be able to run and distribute whatever software I want without Apple getting in the way, but the bottom line is that what I want will never be running on iOS. It will, however, run on other tablet operating systems, and that's what gets my attention.
The reason I started looking at a tablet PC was to replace the laptop in my bag. If I can't do that, I'm not going to buy a tablet PC. Oh, but I found that I could do that, once I started looking away from the iPad glare. This reminds me of another problem. Why does the iPad not use a better screen that isn't covered by a reflective surface? The thing looks like a mirror, and it's awful in the sunlight. I know there's something better, because I've seen screens that look great in direct sunlight. Why doesn't Apple implement this technology?
The competitors may be regarded by Apple zealots as mere annoyances, but they provide tools that do things better than the iPad. Apple may be pleasing the masses, whether they buy because of a herd mentality or because it has simply been the best tablet PC for consumers, but it isn't the best tablet PC for me. I was hoping that the iPad 3 would resolve at least some of these sticking points, but now I'm looking elsewhere for a tablet to meet my requirements.