I'm glad that Apple woke up to compete with Samsung. Forcing Apple to stop profit taking by milking their customer with a sub standard display, is a tactic only Apple could get away with.
Thanks Samsung!
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I'd hardly call $330 for a 1024x768 low res grainy tablet "cheaper". But hell I was a sucker & bought one. Apple knows they can screw us. I wanted iOS & had no choice, nor was I surprised.
For the vey reasonable price of $220 my Nexus 7.2 blows away my mini.
Current iPad is called 'iPad w/retina display', what is the new one going to be called?
Just curious![]()
My Nexus 7 suffers from a major defect, and needs to be replaced. ASUS is charging me shipping to replace a product under warranty, a defect caused by their poor quality control. Apple never did anything like that to me when I needed warranty service on their products. With Nexus 7 you get junk for customer service, with the IPad you get first class customer service. Again what kind of junky warranty requires the consumer to pay for all shipping charges. The Nexus 7 junky warranty is who.
Agreed. Not to mention, the sourced articles usually have more information.
I think you hit the nail on the head, for playing around the mini is great. If you intend to do any serious work with it, you really need the extra real estate. I'm hoping with the next gen iPad I will be able to pretty much retire my old MBP, and get a Mac Pro or high-end iMac for home.
Can hardly wait. Still using an iPad one. About time to make a change.
Lol, how's that been working out?
It is odd; they had no problem going with sequential numbers for the iPhones, but they refused to call the 3rd-gen iPad 'iPad 3' and the 4th-gen 'iPad 4'. Not sure why 'iPad 5' is less appealing than 'New iPad With Retina Display That is Newer Than the Last iPad We Called New'
Just hope that Apple realizes the sales are in the Mini and the iPad5 is the now the secondary iPad of the two and that buyers want the most modern components inside it; not the other way around.
I don't care much about the iPad5 but I would expect the Mini Retina to have inside: A7, M7, 4GB RAM, 128GB option, 802.11 ac! IGZO display is a must for battery life.
Apple should charge more for the Mini then the iPad5 because it cost more for the IGZO display!