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An oversized iPod touch with stretched-out phone OS is exactly what everyone needs !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yes !!!!!!!!
An oversized iPod touch with stretched-out phone OS is exactly what everyone needs !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
House real big, cars real big
____ real big, everything real big
Rims real big, pockets real big
Rings real big, let me tell you how I live
I dunno, IMO the iPad Air is leaps and bounds better than my iPad 3. The weight difference alone makes a dramatic difference in usability. Also, going back to a non retina like the iPad 2 would be pretty painful.
Exactly what I was thinking!
I've been informed by inside sources that there's a personal vendetta here. And by "been informed by inside sources" I mean "made up information".
Good point, never thought of it that way. Tabbed windows aren't opened, they're simply placed in the background, which isn't true multi-tasking of websites/pages.
So it would seem the RAM would be the deciding factor, which makes sense. I'll have to see implementation (assuming it is planned in a future iOS 8 update) before deciding if it's worth trading in my iPad Air.
What I don't understand is but why is the attack so special? It's not out yet (iPad Air 2) but so many people have a say in what works and what doesn't or what will be there and won't what be there. Probably tweaks and just nothing evolutionary. TouchID, gold, faster CPU. iPad Pro? Michael report doesn't cover A8X or pro TouchID.
I think iPad is the one apple product that is magical. The ipad2 and Air were the best updates. Now with all the cheaper options, I agree Apple needs to step up and offer some really new iPad features, but they won't. They will hold off for the new iPad Pro to do that.
The iPhone is making them serious money. The iPad may be be becoming the new iPod, but I've always loved my iPads, but then I hate laptops and a phone is too small a screen for involved use.
The iPhone is making them serious money. The iPad may be be becoming the new iPod, but I've always loved my iPads, but then I hate laptops and a phone is too small a screen for involved use.
Be realistic and don't expect too much. Apple wants to milk us every year with an upgrade, so my personal guess is:
- a bit thinner
- Touch ID
- A8 processor
- same 1 GB Ram
Wasn't their mention of a retina iMac with a 5k display? If so, the upgraded Thunderbolt display should be released too. Can't be too long now, but saying that I already bought a 27" TB display to go with my new mac pro
If they release a 4K or 5K TBD, I'm going to need to update to a MacPro to keep my set up going (rMBP 15" + 2 third-party external monitors I bought all ready to be thrown out of my window when a new TBD is released). My rMBP surely couldn't drive two of them at 60Hz, because a 4K display running @60Hz need 16Gbit/s, and the two TB ports on my MBP aggregating the channels only can provide 20Gbit/s. Personally, I don't think a 4K/5K TBD is around the corner until Thunderbolt 3, which going to be supported by Skylake architecture. But Skylake will not be here until 2015 hmmm.
I've never seen a 5K 27" monitor myself, but IMO a 5K panel is overkill even on a 27" monitor unless you view it from the same distance as you view your phone or you work as a pixel peeper for a living
. I believe Apple will keep the screens that are most likely placed half an arm length from the viewers' eyes like iPhones at 300+ ppi, tablets with a little lower pixel density (I wouldn't complain if they are a little denser), laptops which are usually be placed around 30-40cm from users eyes at around 220 ppi, and those 27" big boys we usually view them from over 60cm away at around 120ppi. Those are the sweet spots of ppi in relative to viewing distance. But hey, I do hope for something around 150ppi for a 27" monitor, but not too much above that number.Cheers!
You know i use to refute people who made this claim. But the iPad is starting to feel like that. Especially since I got my iPhone 6 last week I feel like what is the point of having an iPad. Yeah it has a bigger screen but it doesn't anything my iPhone can't do.
Apple really should focus on closing that gap between iPads abd MacBooks more.
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True, the ipad needs a more professional approach. I don't know how and I don't need to because they don't pay me, but with these bigger iphones truth is that the current iPad (and/or its OS) makes less and less sense
The Great Vibrating iPads!
Wow! You can trust information in an article that says:
"The mute/vibration switch is said to be completely gone..."
Oh no! The vibration switch GONE?!
That's right folks that switch is gone...because it never HAS BEEN!
iPads do not vibrate.
And it's called a "Silent/Screen rotation lock".
Wow! You can trust information in an article that says:
"The mute/vibration switch is said to be completely gone..."
Oh no! The vibration switch GONE?!
That's right folks that switch is gone...because it never HAS BEEN!
iPads do not vibrate.
And it's called a "Silent/Screen rotation lock".
You do realize that this functionality is in Control Center, right? I'd argue that a mute switch is far more convenient than a lock-rotation switch as that functionality is not (fully) there in Control Center.
There seldom are Mac mini rumors prior to a Mac mini release. Even when it was redesigned in 2010, it was a total surprise.
That being said, desktops are on the decline and, save for the Pro users, there's a dwindling demand for them.
First off, what's your beef with the OPTION to take pictures with a rear camera? Secondly, the rear camera of the iPad Air/mini is pretty decent. I used it to take several pictures from a recent vacation and they came out awesomely. Third, FaceTime's patented "show me what you're seeing" functionality sort of requires a rear camera and FaceTiming on that 16GB Black and Silver (rear-camera-less) iPod touch is sometimes made annoying by not having that camera.
The inconveniences you cite are slight and extremely uncommon, making me think that this soapbox you are standing on is somewhat arbitrary.
It's naive to look at the iPad as an oversized iPod touch when the iPad is literally several times more functional at every task the iPod touch is useful for except pocket ability. Browsing the web on my iPod touch, like doing so on my smartphone is annoying, so I seldom do it. Reading e-mail is fine, Facebook is fine, but all of those things are far more comfortably done on an iPad. If you're on the go and not carrying your tablet, that's where the iPod touch/iPhone shine. If you're not, then there's really no point to using those devices in favor of an iPad. The iPhone 6 Plus is the only member of the iPhone/iPod touch family that eases this up substantially, though, still, I'd imagine that if I were home, I'd still prefer to do those things on an iPad.
As for closing the gap between the iPad and the MacBooks, it's called the 11" MacBook Air.
That's nonsense. Just because Apple releases a 5.5" iPhone doesn't mean that suddenly the 9.7" and 7.9" tablets no longer have a use. You can still do so many more things on a tablet that is still stupid to be doing on a phone. Using iWork, for example. Writing a long e-mail, for example. Browsing the web for extended periods of time. These are all tasks that are incredibly annoying to be done on something smaller than an iPad mini. Hell, even iWork, and long e-mail composition are annoying on the iPad mini.