http://www.tomshardware.com/news/iPad-4-Consumers-Apple-Mini,18802.html
Glad to see I'm not the only iPad 3 who feels lonely
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http://www.tomshardware.com/news/iPad-4-Consumers-Apple-Mini,18802.html
Glad to see I'm not the only iPad 3 who feels lonely
Wasn't happy myself, but what's the alternative? The crazy upgrade cycle of the Android world?
Personally I think they probably hoped to have the A6X in the 3rd generation much like they had done for the other two iPads... pioneering new SOCs with them. I bet the A6 slipped because it was their first "from the ground up" SOC and had the A5X as a backup plan.
Personally I think they probably hoped to have the A6X in the 3rd generation much like they had done for the other two iPads... pioneering new SOCs with them. I bet the A6 slipped because it was their first "from the ground up" SOC and had the A5X as a backup plan.
Consumers More Likely to Complain to Peers about Bad Brand Experiences
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/146772/
People will more likely respond to a survey if they are mad, 45% means nothing.
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Consumers More Likely to Complain to Peers about Bad Brand Experiences
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/146772/
People will more likely respond to a survey if they are mad, 45% out of 2,000 (Apple has sold over 100 Million iPads) means nothing.
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/146772/
People will more likely respond to a survey if they are mad, 45% means nothing.
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Consumers More Likely to Complain to Peers about Bad Brand Experiences
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/146772/
People will more likely respond to a survey if they are mad, 45% out of 2,000 (Apple has sold over 100 Million iPads) means nothing.
What are they really supposed to do? Hold back product updates that are ready to go just because of some arbitrary release cycle that some want to hold them to? It's a dog eat dog world in the mobile device market and Apple right now is the big dog. They want to stay that way and sitting on a finished product until March when it is ready to ship before Christmas would be idiotic and the sign of poor management.
Truth of the matter is this. Your iPad is just as good today as it was 2 weeks ago. Is it the latest and greatest now? No, but that doesn't make it bad or inferior. If the feature and spec gap between the 3 and 4 are important to you....then upgrade. Otherwise, just relax and enjoy your iPad.
Truth of the matter is this. Your iPad is just as good today as it was 2 weeks ago. Is it the latest and greatest now? No, but that doesn't make it bad or inferior. If the feature and spec gap between the 3 and 4 are important to you....then upgrade. Otherwise, just relax and enjoy your iPad.
Agreed. So many feel that they have to have the latest & greatest all of the time.
for a lot of people the appeal of the iPad was to not get sucked into the cycle of constant upgrades, and by sticking with apple and iPads, they only had to worry about upgrading once a year, plus resale took a hit as well
Just because a device is not the latest does not mean it is obsolete. If it still does what you want it to do there is no problem.
We have a a G5, 6 yr old Mac Pro. 4th gen iPod and iPad 2 all are working great. No need to upgrade.
We have a a G5, 6 yr old Mac Pro. 4th gen iPod and iPad 2 all are working great. No need to upgrade.
While it's true my iPad 3 does all I want it to do, and I'm still happy with it, I still feel I've been kicked in the balls. The fact is, it is now an instant, expensive footnote. It was a placeholder for the 4, no question. Had I suspected, six months ago, that it would soon be replaced with a much faster processor, I would have waited. My iPad 1 was still doing all I wanted at that point. So you can yammer 'til the cows come home about how no one should complain, we have every right to our opinions, and our complaints. We paid for the right.
Resale took what kind of hit? Notwithstanding the fact that counting on a steady and predictable resale value on this type of device is a little silly, exactly how much less is this worth today?
I don't know about place holder. Remember, when the iPad 3 came out, the retina screen was a huge deal, and everyone had been clamoring for it. Of course, if I knew back then that a new model with faster CPU will come out in October, I'd have waited. But now that I have the iPad 3, I'll simply skip the 4 and wait for the 5. The end result is that either way, Apple has gotten me to skip a gen, so, I'm not complaining.
Its almost like the company wants to make money. Crazy.
How does them releasing a newer product make yours immediately work worse?
Calm yourself.
If they would have waited till feb to release the 4th gen, then everyone would have complained that it wasnt a full redesign.
So either way there is complaints.
PS. nice username. Battlefield is amazing.
How does them releasing a newer product make yours immediately work worse?
Calm yourself.
If they would have waited till feb to release the 4th gen, then everyone would have complained that it wasnt a full redesign.
So either way there is complaints.
PS. nice username. Battlefield is amazing.
I remember being an employee at BB and a computer had a max shelf life of 3 weeks. 6 months is a very long time in the tech world!
Well it is good to see that you excelled at the "being a liar" part of being a best buy employee.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/iPad-4-Consumers-Apple-Mini,18802.html
Glad to see I'm not the only iPad 3 who feels lonely
You're an iPad 3?
I know I'm really blessed and won't certainly upgrade till the 5th or 6th generation. It just throws off the whole update cycle. As a consumer it's annoying. Will apple still update the iPad in March?
Let me know if you're looking for some people to play bf3 for some squad teamwork.
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https://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/0...ctober-launch-with-ipad-3-as-interim-upgrade/
Did nobody read these rumors back in January? I guess the 4th Gen iPad shouldn't have been that big of a surprise at all.
Did nobody read these rumors back in January? I guess the 4th Gen iPad shouldn't have been that big of a surprise at all.
But every year there have been rumors of an iPad upgrade in the fall, without it actually happening. There was no reason to think that rumor was more credible than the ones from previous years that turned out to be false.
That's why in the gadget world it makes no sense waiting to purchase the next best thing, because it never last that long.