Yes, it's ideal for FaceTime, so why change it? I already functions perfectly the way it is. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
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First Hands-On Impressions of 'The New iPad'
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Yes, it's ideal for FaceTime, so why change it? I already functions perfectly the way it is. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
I agree. The phrase "post PC era" doesn't apply quite yet. Perhaps Apple knows their future devices will bring in this era, but as of right now, that era has not come to the public.
The technology is there but not tied all together yet. When my cellphone has a dock that plugs into the network, a monitor, a keyboard and a mouse and provides me with my files and an OS to work and play on, then we have the post PC era. Until then, my business files and programs are on one computer at work. My gaming rig is at home. My on the go connection to media is in my pocket.
The name is not "The new iPad". It's just called iPad, and this happens to be the new one.
Or, continue to make fun of its "name" while nobody takes you seriously. I'll be in the other room enjoying my iPad.
Or, continue to make fun of its "name" while nobody takes you seriously. I'll be in the other room enjoying my iPad.
people are way over thinking the name.
you are not going to go on stage and say iPad 3rd generation, you are going to just refer to it as the new ipad because it is indeed new.
It will be just referenced as iPad later on and of course it will only say iPad on the back.
do you really say iPad2 everytime you are talking about your iPad? I doubt it.
edit: appeared just after santaliqueur posted, i agree with him.
you are not going to go on stage and say iPad 3rd generation, you are going to just refer to it as the new ipad because it is indeed new.
It will be just referenced as iPad later on and of course it will only say iPad on the back.
do you really say iPad2 everytime you are talking about your iPad? I doubt it.
edit: appeared just after santaliqueur posted, i agree with him.
Watch the iPad video. They call it iPad (3rd generation).
So they use the same generation names like they do for iPod.
People are taking this "the new iPad" name way too seriously. Apple has ALWAYS done this.
The new Macbook Air
The new Mac mini
The new iMac
The new iPod
You can call it whatever you want. The name is not "the new iPad". It is "iPad". This is just how they are marketing it as a new product, just like anything else.
The new Macbook Air
The new Mac mini
The new iMac
The new iPod
You can call it whatever you want. The name is not "the new iPad". It is "iPad". This is just how they are marketing it as a new product, just like anything else.
You're so right on this. They likely didn't use iPad 3 because in the past, most people that purchased the iPhone 4 thought it used 4G technology. It causes too much confusion for those not technically endowed. Those that want a 4G iPad might shy away from an iPad 3.
Not including a number in the name is a mistake. Yes it works for the Macbook Pro/Air/iMac, but those devices account for a much smaller percent of sales. They aren't nearly as ubiquitous, and the 'average Joe' doesn't have one. iPad and iPhone are status symbols.
Two years of the tablet revolution and you still don't get it. Tablets are not PCs and PCs are not tablets. Apple revolutionized the sector by rethinking that idea. Billions of iPads later, I think they were on to something.
I beg to differ. As the chart showed, there were more iPads sold last quarter than any PC on the market. At what point do you think it would apply? When no PCs are sold?
i agree. i'm hoping ios6 for the ipad is more a bridge between ios and os x. it could offer a few more things to be really useful and more of a replacement of the normal pc. Keep all the aspects that currently make it great but add just a more options for power users (even if hidden from more casual users.)
i have a computer at work and none at home (the wife has one) and this is my first ipad. I'm opting for this rather than a laptop. I can use my work laptop in a pinch but it would be nice to be be able to use the ipad more and not need the laptop unless it's something really demanding.
I want to use it as a media consumption device but I also want to be able to get some tasks done when I need to. i suppose as processors improve we'll see options, or maybe some sort of doc where you can doc the ipad into some sort of docking station at night. perhaps thunderbolt will allow something like this at some point.
for now i will enjoy it for what it is and make it as useful as I can.
i know i will get tired of upgrading laptops, phones and ipads
You got marked down for this post. Go figure.
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Can't wait to hear what you consider a earth shattering release.
The new one or the 1st gen one? I'm confused as to what ipad you are enjoying in the other room.
This isn't a revolutionary device. It does the same things. Apple seriously need to stop using that word. Or even their new word 'resolutionary'.
A revolutionary tablet would do new things and offer new uses. Not just an easier way of doing the same things.
Making this a device for different type of user, such as a photographer would make it revolutionary. Right now, it doesn't do this well.
But, this is obviously an improvement on the last version. But that's all. I guess I'm being a little pedantic about the word revolutionary, but using it for almost every product launch is ridiculous.
A revolutionary tablet would do new things and offer new uses. Not just an easier way of doing the same things.
Making this a device for different type of user, such as a photographer would make it revolutionary. Right now, it doesn't do this well.
But, this is obviously an improvement on the last version. But that's all. I guess I'm being a little pedantic about the word revolutionary, but using it for almost every product launch is ridiculous.