The current Galaxy has a 'better' resolution than either iPad - I doubt people are really bothered about a few pixels to be honest.
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Apple Pushes iPad 3 to 2012 due to Retina Display
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The current Galaxy has a 'better' resolution than either iPad - I doubt people are really bothered about a few pixels to be honest.
Can't wait. News like this helps me fight the fever to upgrade from my first gen. Although this makes me want to at least sell my first gen for cash to get ready.
One of the reasons, besides arn's lack of integrity, that I don't read MacRumors anymore is these kinds of dishonest, fabricated "rumors" passed as news.
The iPad 3 was never planned for release in the fall. It was always planned for release in the spring.
This is how Apple works.
Naturally, to ship a product in high volume in the spring of 2012, requires prototypes and test units to be produced in the fall of 2011.
Do you have to be some kind of industry expert to figure this out? Is this really beyond the ken of the people who run this site to comprehend?
So, after hyping up this BS, non-rumor for several months, they have to cover their butts.
So, why not just make up an excuse about low yields?
That way it doesn't look like you've been dealing in obvious lies as if they were real for several months.
And they think you're stupid enough to fall for it.
Don't be.
The iPad 3 was never planned for release in the fall. It was always planned for release in the spring.
This is how Apple works.
Naturally, to ship a product in high volume in the spring of 2012, requires prototypes and test units to be produced in the fall of 2011.
Do you have to be some kind of industry expert to figure this out? Is this really beyond the ken of the people who run this site to comprehend?
So, after hyping up this BS, non-rumor for several months, they have to cover their butts.
So, why not just make up an excuse about low yields?
That way it doesn't look like you've been dealing in obvious lies as if they were real for several months.
And they think you're stupid enough to fall for it.
Don't be.
How can you push something back to 2012 that already had a release date at the earliest 2012.
It seems like you're just confirming what Jobs told the world. 2011:Year of iPad 2.
There was never going to be a 2nd iPad release in 2011. We all knew it. Seems you missed that keynote speech.
Regardless, this is still only a rumor. You can't honestly think that with the barrage of rumors as of late about product release dates that you can trust this one. "2011 the year of iPad 2" is only a catchphrase to market the iPad 2, and Apple can change release dates as it has before.
Meanwhile, I'm surprised that there haven't been any iPod rumors other than the rumor that the iPod Touch may be discontinued. If release schedules are to be believed for the iPod line, the new iPods may be released alongside the iPhone 5 or 4S. For all we know though with the October 7 rumors, the products may be unveiled in September and released in October.
Meanwhile, I'm surprised that there haven't been any iPod rumors other than the rumor that the iPod Touch may be discontinued. If release schedules are to be believed for the iPod line, the new iPods may be released alongside the iPhone 5 or 4S. For all we know though with the October 7 rumors, the products may be unveiled in September and released in October.
Yeah, except your comprehension is utter sh-t: the name of the site is MacRUMORS, not MacNews, not MacNewsNetwork, not MacFact, not MacHeadlines, not MacTruth, not MacTuality. RUMORS are most of the content on the site, with news peppered in. Rumor, the word, carries with it a gamble of fact or fiction. There is no guarantee that a rumor is even close to fact.
If this place was MacNews, it would have an article every 2 or 3 months. That's not exactly going to get viewers or repeat visitors now, is it?
Boo-urns!
This makes me kind of sad...
But, really, it's not very surprising if you think about it!
This makes me kind of sad...
But, really, it's not very surprising if you think about it!
The retina display doesn't matter that much to me.
I have an iPhone 4, and I love the display. It's bright, sharp, and beautiful. But I've also used an iPad 2, and I honestly can't tell the difference in resolution. Both look amazing. Is it because I don't hold the iPad as close to my eye? Probably. I've also been fooled by thinking some games look incredible on the iPhone because of the quadruple resolution, then I find out later that they don't even have retina support
I'll take a retina display on the iPad, but it needs to be just as bright and flawless as the current display, and it can't cause a dip in battery life or cost. That's a lot to ask for, considering that the iPad retina display is going to have over FIVE times the pixels of the iPhone retina display, over TWENTY times the pixels of the iPhone 3GS.
I have an iPhone 4, and I love the display. It's bright, sharp, and beautiful. But I've also used an iPad 2, and I honestly can't tell the difference in resolution. Both look amazing. Is it because I don't hold the iPad as close to my eye? Probably. I've also been fooled by thinking some games look incredible on the iPhone because of the quadruple resolution, then I find out later that they don't even have retina support
I'll take a retina display on the iPad, but it needs to be just as bright and flawless as the current display, and it can't cause a dip in battery life or cost. That's a lot to ask for, considering that the iPad retina display is going to have over FIVE times the pixels of the iPhone retina display, over TWENTY times the pixels of the iPhone 3GS.
I'll just get an iPad when a retina display is available, and worry about the release date when Apple actually announces it. Retina on a tablet? I can't wait. It will be a boon for games.
It was never going to come out this year. I assure you the day the iPad 3 does come out everyone is going to ask when the 4 is coming out
That's pretty much how it is with every product. You have those that currently own a product that's two more cycles behind, needing an upgrade that are happy and jump at the chance to replace 2 year old tech.
Then you have those that have the last version that upgrade because they can
Then you have the worse kind of user, the ones that have the previous version that for some reason have to resist the urge to not but model x+1. These users end up trashing the current model simply because they have to justify staying with their current version and whine and cry about when the x+1+1 model is going to come out.
True, Arn doesn't have any integrity, but he doesn't need it to run a rumors site. As Lesser Evets has said, it's not a news site and Arn can post whatever garbage he thinks will get his hits up.
I had no doubt in my mind that the iPad 3 would be released in 2012. They have just been able to improve the speed of the manufacturing for the iPad 2, in order to fulfil orders quickly. It would really pee people off bringing out a new device so soon after the last one.
I still have an original iPad and use it all the time. I will definitely get an iPad 3 as the iPad 2 just does not do it for me.
I still have an original iPad and use it all the time. I will definitely get an iPad 3 as the iPad 2 just does not do it for me.
Actually, that was the first rumor - an iPad 2 with a Retina Display (RD) that would run a couple hundred dollars more to try and dampen demand due to the inability to produce tens of millions of RDs a quarter. This would give Apple and the supply chain time to ramp RD production for it's general use in the iPad 3 that was expected in Spring 2012.
Then more and more sites started to shift and claim a new iPad (the iPad 3) would ship in September with an RD.
I've held off buying an iPad 2 because of the constant stream of iPad 3 rumors. I am not willing to pay hundreds more for an RD (the iPad Pro / iPad HD), but I didn't want to buy an iPad 2 to only have an RD iPad 3 launch a month later.
I would say maybe 500,000 iPad 1 owners , for I am one of them and although I will get the iPad 3 (in Q3 2012), I'm not likely to be standing in line on day 1 and that's because i will be following the excitement on my iPad1.
unless of course we're allowed to pre-order and have it delivered
then it sounds like you need something other than an ipad.
yup. and the millions upon millions upon millions of ipad tablet customers have defined this the apple tablet as being what they want. fact: most people dont give a **** about IO ports. because these SAME customers "voted with their feet" and didnt buy Windows XP tablets, which have existed for 10 years and have the ports you describe.
so not-being-open is a consumer problem? hmm. do you make the same complaint about Windows not being an open source project? Xbox? Wii? why not?
many people do -- jailbreaking and using Cydia is legal. go for it.
ah yeah, because these millions upon millions of customers are dropping half a grand (or more) just because "everyone else is doing it". sure, pal.
hey, what's for lunch in the cafe today? see ya in home room!
You know they will be available for pre-order. Now, the time it takes to actually ship is the real question.
There's one iPad sold every 0.8 second.
Remind us where the wonderful competition stands again?
Oh really? And what made you think that?
Entitled much?
smh...
I fail to see how Apple puts in a Retina Display on 9.7" and keeps the base price at $499 unless they eat the profits they currently make.
Yes, the high-res panel Samsung announced is 300 ppi compared to 264 ppi for what many expect in the next iPad. However the Samsung panel is Pentile RGBW with 2 subpixels per pixel, thus it actually has 14% fewer subpixels per area. Despite the higher nominal resolution it may look worse in some situations (though still much better than any current tablet).
It isn't hard to imagine Steve Jobs wanting to be the first to announce a true high-res tablet and repeat the splash they made with the iPhone 4 Retina Display (*). And complete it with a HiDPI Mac lineup next year.
Which is why this rumor isn't as crazy as some might think. If Apple wait till March/April 2012, they almost certainly won't be first. In this point they might be a victim of their own success, since they'd need millions of panels for a proper product launch, whereas competitors would be less worried about launching with, say, less than 100k units available.
(*) even though that wasn't the first device with 300+ ppi, it was the first to get a lot of attention.
Nope more like (and what is likely the case)
1. Design tech
2. Order prototypes
3. Test
4. Refine
5. Repeat steps 2-4 as needed
6. Finalize product
7 Start production
8. Release product a year after the previous model as was always the plan (despite the rumors to the contrary that were then refuted by yet more rumors)
He was conducting an intellectual exercise and a bit of 'what if' fantasy. NOT as has been picked up, actually suggesting that he knew or thought that Apple would do any such thing
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and rumors about Apple generate more hits than all the celebrity rumors in the world.
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