especially seeing what a bad job they did with the 2x resolution increase from iPhone apps on the iPad - still don't get how they could screw that up such big times - even apps that use text controls look horrible.
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Apple to Announce Second-Generation iPad Within 3-4 Weeks?
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especially seeing what a bad job they did with the 2x resolution increase from iPhone apps on the iPad - still don't get how they could screw that up such big times - even apps that use text controls look horrible.
I was glad last year that I got a 17'' MacBook from work last year - my 13'' MacBook was not well suited to designe iPad apps in IB.
Who said they release it early february? They announce it - big difference. Than the developers have a month or two to update their apps and by the time the iPad is released you have thousands of apps supporting the new features.
Corporate intelligence gathering within Apple
While a lot of people wait, discuss and hang on every "Mac Rumor" that floats around, Apple has a corporate intelligence staff that analyzes other companies future products. Be 100% assured Apple knew what Motorola Mobility Inc., Toshiba Corp. and Dell Inc. were going to do with their announced but yet-to-be-sold tablets. The iPad has been modified to it is better that the competition and a 2/3 announcement will steal any thunder they hoped to get when the products go on sale.
While a lot of people wait, discuss and hang on every "Mac Rumor" that floats around, Apple has a corporate intelligence staff that analyzes other companies future products. Be 100% assured Apple knew what Motorola Mobility Inc., Toshiba Corp. and Dell Inc. were going to do with their announced but yet-to-be-sold tablets. The iPad has been modified to it is better that the competition and a 2/3 announcement will steal any thunder they hoped to get when the products go on sale.
Just make the default behavior for older iPad apps to display at 1024 x 768 and a black border around them.
If the iPad 2/iPad hd - is announced early Feb., and released early march, that's more than enough time for apps to be updated.
You rally want to use the iPad to shoot HD video??? I think the form factor would be horrible. You probably couldn't hold it steady enough, wired form to hold up and shoot videos, probably have to hold it with two hands to shoot decent video, .... just not practicable. Just imagine how funny it looks people holding up the ipads with two hands shooting video.
Ipad2 Retina
Cannot see the iphone4 Retina display making it to the ipad 2.
All them pixels will be a monster drain on battery in a screen so large.
Heres hoping though.
Apple please prove me wrong.
Cannot see the iphone4 Retina display making it to the ipad 2.
All them pixels will be a monster drain on battery in a screen so large.
Heres hoping though.
Apple please prove me wrong.
If Apple would be that kind of follower they wouldn't be where they are (iPod/iPhone/iPad).
Does anybody remember the early prototype of the Android? Looked like a clone of the BlackBerry. Only after Apple showed off its iPhone it started looking like an iPhone. Apple leads, other follow. That is why their stock keeps shooting up and why they make so much money.
I know it is very unlikely to have retina display on iPad, but if Apple can make it, I'll buy it most happily.
Nothing is impossible
I will buy it either way. Retina display is a nice marketing phrase, but does not mean too much.
In a way you are correct, but to make things clear, I want to make sure I understand. Do you mean that because iP4 renders the UI controls to match the higher resolution, the accompanying lower-resolution images that are native for older iPhones hence look worse? Because, in a way that is true. Nice crisp clear controls next to a not-so-clear image makes the image look worse, but it's no worse than it was on an older iPhone. I think if you have a 320x480 image on a iPhone4 and you view it as it is, without any controls to compare to, it essentially looks the same as on a 3GS. With only the exception that as one pixel is stretched to fit on 4 pixels that take the same area as the older displays one pixel, you could theoretically see the pixel borders between the 4 pixels, hence making the image look worse.
Anyway, back to iPad talk. As it's been said before, anything else than doubling the resolution would be difficult to do. As we've seen with iPhone apps stretched on the iPad, as it's more than double the original resolution, and not the same as iPhone4 resolution, it doesn't look good.
So to make the transition easy, the new resolution would have to be 2048*1536. Not going to happen anytime soon, with these processors. Something along the lines of 1280*960 would be plausible, especially it would be good for 720p HD videos. But lot's of work for developers and it wouldn't fit with Apple's philosophy of keeping things simple.
I agree.
But it is hard to fight wishful thinking with reason. A whole bunch of people will insist that the next iPad just has to be super duper compared to the first one, despite a long history of this NOT happening from Apple.
So they are manifesting dreams of multi cores, and higher resolution than their desktop, for a product that has barely finished rolling our around the world, and when Apple ships a mildy tweaked iPad 2, they will get angry and call Steve Jobs a poopy head because he didn't build the iPad of their dreams.
Yup. It doesn't have to be 300 ppi, as long as it's enough for a given distance from your eyes. People probably don't look at their iPads as closely as their iPhones, but I don't think it's that much further away. So even if 2560*1920 is not needed, the pixel quadrupled 2048*1536 would be probably more than enough to call Retina. It's up to Apple what they call it, anyway.
aapl making great progress with verizon and ipad2 - however its funny they cannot get a grip on something simple as a white iphone - go aapl
What would you need a dual core iPad for when a single core is more than enough to handle things? Android tablets will be dual core because... you guessed it... Android needs dual core to run decently. Not iOS.
I completely disagree. With so much competition from Android in tablets and phones, Apple must speed up its refresh cycle or it will not be able to compete on hardware features. I would not be at all surprised if we see a a few announcements between now and the first week of February regarding iPhone and iPad. Apple MUST do this given how much the market has changed in the last year.
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What about a CDMA iPad for Verizon network? Theyre changing the iphone to accomodate it to the network, why not give them a new ipad to run on their network? Regular iPads cant get their internet, that would fit the bill...
What about a CDMA iPad for Verizon network? Theyre changing the iphone to accomodate it to the network, why not give them a new ipad to run on their network? Regular iPads cant get their internet, that would fit the bill...
That mockup in the picture was build by an case manufacture based only on rumores and educated guesses - he confirmed that in an interview with CNN. There is nothing in that design that came from Apple
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HANG ON...
I just did the math and a 2560x1920 res screen gives you 333 dpi. True, that's near the range of the iPhone's resolution, but don't forget that Steve said that the magic threshold for indistinguishable pixels is somewhere near 300dpi, IF you are holding the screen 1 foot away from the face.
Let's say that the iPad, instead of getting an upgrade to 2560x1920, was just pixel doubled on both dimensions. That would be a resolution of 2048x1536 (just multiply 1024x768 by 2 to get that).
A screen with 2048x1536 yields a ppi of 264. Considering a phone is held closer to the face than a tablet, Apple marketing could fudge the "retina threshold" to a lower number since a tablet is typically around, let's say, 1.5 feet from the face. Thus a ppi of 264 is perfectly reasonable to deem "retina display" and it solves the development problem of upgrading existing app assets by cleanly doubling the resolution required for graphics.
I'm not saying Rose is right, but it very well could be possible to have a "retina" display on the next iPad.
HANG ON...
I just did the math and a 2560x1920 res screen gives you 333 dpi. True, that's near the range of the iPhone's resolution, but don't forget that Steve said that the magic threshold for indistinguishable pixels is somewhere near 300dpi, IF you are holding the screen 1 foot away from the face.
Let's say that the iPad, instead of getting an upgrade to 2560x1920, was just pixel doubled on both dimensions. That would be a resolution of 2048x1536 (just multiply 1024x768 by 2 to get that).
A screen with 2048x1536 yields a ppi of 264. Considering a phone is held closer to the face than a tablet, Apple marketing could fudge the "retina threshold" to a lower number since a tablet is typically around, let's say, 1.5 feet from the face. Thus a ppi of 264 is perfectly reasonable to deem "retina display" and it solves the development problem of upgrading existing app assets by cleanly doubling the resolution required for graphics.
I'm not saying Rose is right, but it very well could be possible to have a "retina" display on the next iPad.
No. Apple must not play catch up. Competition just started copying the ideas from the first generation iPad and last generation iPhone. Most 'competing' tables are still announced only. Apple won't release new features until they are ready and Jobs is happy with them. Apple never rushed anything out. Thats one thing I love about Apple - they rather have less features but those working well. What is the point of having tons of features and impressive 'spec' if things dont work well together.
I agree with you. He has a new chargeable newsletter he's trying to sell, and is looking for as much attention as he can get.
The last event was pretty much dedicated solely to the Mac. You got a new MacBook Air, a Mac App Store, a preview of 10.7 and a new iLife suite. Jobs had already promised a new version of Final Cut Pro, notebook and desktop updates are imminent and Apple's Web site can't stop promoting iWork '11 which will surely be out soon.
Yet, you're still bitching. This is the most Mac activity we've had in years.
