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Apple's Media Event Predicted to See Retina iPad Mini and Thinner iPad, but No Touch ID or Gold Option
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Good find, however, I don't think a Professor of Department of Political Science would work as a market analyst, too.
Yes and the iPhone 5S' touch iD sensor fit perfectly.
Apple would be dumb not to give it touch ID
Innovation to do something significant and different is welcome. Unlocking device and remembering a password. That just contributes to our already lazy society. If touch ID, for example, was to facilitate seamless internet payments to beneficiaries is more like an idea. Especially if it's a regular beneficiary with a regular payment (say you give your college kids a weekly allowance of $200).
I can't believe the excitement for fingerprint touch ID just to unlock and remember AppleID password. FML!!!
Retina Display with a better (or best at the moment) processor would actually encourage some to explore other avenues of the world of Apple that they don't bother with. For example, someone that is an average gamer or it currently doesn't appeal to them...yet
I am a below average gamer but that's because either some games are slow in my iPad or the display is "ok" (to me).Start thinking outside of the box people and stop just accepting what is thrown our way and get excited. Never settle for second best.
Yep - regardless if supplies are constrained at first, Tim Cook says their goal is foremost creating a great customer experience/products. Holding off on a feature for one product but not the other due to supply would put supply chain over product design... Doesn't sound like Apple to me.
When you think about it, having Touch ID on a product like an iPad/ iPad mini actually makes more sense, as these are products that are more likely to be shared between families etc. The only reason that Apple would push it onto iPhones first is because the event was scheduled a month earlier, and therefore the phones were ready to ship first. To me it makes more than sense to include Touch ID on both types of new iPad, as it brings all three portable line-ups to the same level and can produce a unanimous push for widespread adoption of the technology.
I think the fact that people are already expecting touch I'd on there new Ipads would make people dissatisfied if they didn't have it. It would make people not want it as much although it would still sell. In my opinion why introduce a new feature and then leave it off of one of your new products especially this close to the iPhone 5s launch
"..due to supply constraints..."
This is why I gave up on Apple. I still buy the products, but am far from the avid consumer I was. Months after the introduction of the iPad, iPhone 5, and the thin iMac, I would walk into my local store to buy, and they would not have them in stock. That killed it for me. Never even bought an iPhone 5 becasue the "new" one was 6 months away by the time the store had inventory.
Apple certainly wants to be a "make to order" business model. The old way of "we build it and you come buy it" is ending.
They want "you pay for it and we'll build it."-- which is why they drive everyone to the website to order their hardware.
I dont blame them. It is a better business model. But, I am one of the consumers who will buy less this way. They know, they just do not care.
I miss the old days when there was inventory and at least a chance to buy the new stuff reasonably soon after it came out.
Now, it is just a big show of *innovation, and then a make to order on the web platform. The brick/mortar stores are just "showcases" with limited inventory of actual hardware.
But, hey good news, plenty of cases and cables in stock anytime.
This is why I gave up on Apple. I still buy the products, but am far from the avid consumer I was. Months after the introduction of the iPad, iPhone 5, and the thin iMac, I would walk into my local store to buy, and they would not have them in stock. That killed it for me. Never even bought an iPhone 5 becasue the "new" one was 6 months away by the time the store had inventory.
Apple certainly wants to be a "make to order" business model. The old way of "we build it and you come buy it" is ending.
They want "you pay for it and we'll build it."-- which is why they drive everyone to the website to order their hardware.
I dont blame them. It is a better business model. But, I am one of the consumers who will buy less this way. They know, they just do not care.
I miss the old days when there was inventory and at least a chance to buy the new stuff reasonably soon after it came out.
Now, it is just a big show of *innovation, and then a make to order on the web platform. The brick/mortar stores are just "showcases" with limited inventory of actual hardware.
But, hey good news, plenty of cases and cables in stock anytime.
Innovation to do something significant and different is welcome. Unlocking device and remembering a password. That just contributes to our already lazy society. If touch ID, for example, was to facilitate seamless internet payments to beneficiaries is more like an idea. Especially if it's a regular beneficiary with a regular payment (say you give your college kids a weekly allowance of $200).
I can't believe the excitement for fingerprint touch ID just to unlock and remember AppleID password. FML!!!
Retina Display with a better (or best at the moment) processor would actually encourage some to explore other avenues of the world of Apple that they don't bother with. For example, someone that is an average gamer or it currently doesn't appeal to them...yet
Start thinking outside of the box people and stop just accepting what is thrown our way and get excited. Never settle for second best.
You don't have to use TouchID. You can still use passwords. This is how I know you haven't tried it yet, and speaking without experience is weird. Why dissuade others or even yourself from a product based on no knowledge of it?
Can't wait to ditch my current iPad Mini for an iPad 5 with the new form factor.
If it comes in Space Grey and has TouchID that'll sweeten the pot even more.
If it comes in Space Grey and has TouchID that'll sweeten the pot even more.
Relax. The world is not out to get you. As brutal as this may seem, no-one at Apple, or indeed your government, cares about you.
If you've committed crimes, feel free to be a little paranoid, but whilst you're spending your quiet Sundays on MacRumors, I'd suggest keeping an open mind to this tiny piece of useful technology.
Let me correct that. Plenty of ridiculously overpriced cases and cables in stock anytime.
Her/his email is: mingchi.kuo@kgisia.com.tw
Perhaps we could just ask!
Got it from here: http://research.kgi.com.tw/KGI1/about/about_frame.htmTouchID is a pointless gimmick, I will be happy if the iPads don't have it. Too bad the iPad 5 won't actually have any real new decent feature other than the usual "sligthly faster, sligthly thinner and with a sligthly better camera" pattern we have seen over and over, but I would rather have nothing than seeing little gimmicks being heralded as new saviors of the world (Siri, Maps, TouchID).
Touch ID to do what? Unlock and remember password for App Store?
I'm fine with remembering my passwords which we have all been doing for years
If you can remember passwords then you're not using a decent password solution. You only need one website to be compromised to then compromise all your logins that use the same password. This seems to happen regularly these days. Something like 1Password (and soon iCloud Keychain) will generate a secure and random password for every different website you sign up to.
It's a pain in the rear to have to log into a separate app and manually cut and paste the password into a browser app. iCloud Keychain doing this at from a single touch will be game changing. I'd be seriously disappointed if iPad5 didn't have TouchID
Their goal is to make money as a company, nothing else, and don't let any "speech" make you think otherwise.
Touch ID is one huge disaster waiting to happen. We know how the NSA can get their grubby fingers into pretty much anything through secret court orders and clandestine scheming, and lying to the public (even congress) at the same time.
Quite frankly Touch ID is nothing more than a gimmick IMO, I can do just fine without it.
Most likely. Here's hoping 2Gb of RAM for iPad 5 with a G6630 GPU
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What I think:
iPad 5
-A7X dual core 1.4-1.5Ghz, 2X faster than iPad 4's CPU
-G6630 GPU outputting at 205Gflops, 2.67X faster than iPad 4's GPU (same jump that the 5S got from the 5).
2Gb of DDR3 RAM, 2X as much as last to years of iPad's.
£399 - 16Gb
£479 - 32Gb
£559 - 64Gb
£639 - 128Gb
I disagree. A6 alone is enough, A7 is better than A6.
To match the quality on the current iPad, it'd need an "X"-but these non-X chips ARE good enough. They would have problems on gaming, however.
I don't understand why no quad gpu for the mini if it's getting a retina display. Since the beginning of higher resolution iPads aX processors were needed.
iPad mini with A7? Nope.This - and a retina display - will drain a lot of battery life.It's funny cause he predicts this and not a touchID.Maybe quad-core graphics.The reason iPad mini would not get an A7 chip its because iPad 5 will (A7X, X is just quad core graphics).So....Apple would not make ipad mini so similar with the big iPad.iPad mini means portability, not performance.
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Once you use it u can never go back.
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Once you use it u can never go back.