Apple Pushes iPad 3 to 2012 due to Retina Display

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.
 
A retina display of that size will require some serious CPU and GPU power to drive it. The puny A5 was simply not up to the task...
 
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.
 
Apple Pushes iPad 3 to 2012 due to Retina Display
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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.
 
econgeek said:
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.
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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?
 
The worst part is...That people will see this as a rumor and truely believe they are coming out with one in September. haha (I never believed 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'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. :)
 
Macmaniac said:
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:confused:
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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.

econgeek said:
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.
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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.
 
tekker said:
iPad 2 Pro

You heard it here, folks.
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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.
 
pavelbure said:
That sound you hear is the sound of a million iPad 1 owners hearts breaking.
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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
 
arogge said:
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.
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then it sounds like you need something other than an ipad.

Apple doesn't define what a tablet PC does. The buyer does
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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.

Another glaring problem has been ... Apple's refusal to sufficiently open the iOS code to developers
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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?

I think that I should be able to run and distribute whatever software I want without Apple getting in the way
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many people do -- jailbreaking and using Cydia is legal. go for it.

Apple may be pleasing the masses, whether they buy because of a herd mentality
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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!
 
Neous said:
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
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You know they will be available for pre-order. Now, the time it takes to actually ship is the real question.
 
arogge said:
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.
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There's one iPad sold every 0.8 second.
Remind us where the wonderful competition stands again?

I think that I should be able to run and distribute whatever software I want without Apple getting in the way
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Oh really? And what made you think that?
Entitled much?

smh... :rolleyes:
 
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.
 
Piggie said:
One could imagine that Samsung might have a Retina Display tablet out before Apple.
It's there screen after all is it not?
Actually the Samsung model will be a higher resolution than the iPad3 version will it not?

iPad3 2048x1536

Samsung 2560 x 1600
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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.
 
apttap said:
1) Place order for millions of electronic devices.
2) Decide devices aren't ready for production due to technology restraints.
3) Cancel order.

Sounds like the way the most valuable company would function.
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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)

finkmacunix said:
So if John Gruber says something, everyone believes him?

Besides, he was asking the question "What would happen if Apple Released an iPad 3 in Spetember?"
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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


jap1198 said:
Why was this rumors even started?
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Page hits=money

and rumors about Apple generate more hits than all the celebrity rumors in the world.
 
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