I am so very curious what Apple will do in an iPad 2

[blackNBUK]

I can't see how the Xoom and other Honeycomb tablets could have an effect on an iPad 2 released soon. It takes a lot of time to design and produce a new piece of hardware, especially on the scale that Apple works in. The specs of iPad 2 were probably already planned out when iPad 1 was launched. I think the earliest we see any reaction is the autumn update that some people have speculated about.

This isn't to say that I think the iPad 2 will be a poor update, it's just that if it gets a dual-core processor it will be because that was always the plan, not because the Xoom forced them into it.

 

[Nennilj]

Seriously. Apple, I get that you're a secretive company, but this is just annoying. You're making me really effing lose my patience. It's the most obvious thing ever, that the new iPad is going to be out soon, just GIVE US A DATE FOR THE ANNOUNCEMENT.

Ha, i feel like same way... IM GOIN NUCKING FUTS with the waiting and wondering

 

[Terrestrial]

Would still be sad to be a minor upgrade

For me it comes down to Xoom vs. iPad 2. There is something that seems more elegant about the iPad but I think the Xoom will beat the iPad on spec. An autumn refresh seems crazy to me. Apple would be killing its own sales AND piss off a whole bunch of iPad 2 buyers at the same time.

 

[gggccc]

APPLE WILL NEVER MAKE AN IPAD WITH A RETINA DISPLAY, for the simple reason that it would be twice the resolution of 1080p.

Quad core sounds nice, but is very doubtable. Dual core sounds reasonable.

iPads need more ram, so hopefully 1-2GB of ram in the 2?


Sent from my iPhone 4

 

[deeddawg]

APPLE WILL NEVER MAKE AN IPAD WITH A RETINA DISPLAY, for the simple reason that it would be twice the resolution of 1080p.

Never is a long time in the technological world.

MSDOS 3.x couldn't support a hard disk partition larger than 32MB. 40MB hard drives had to be partitioned. FAT16 with a 2GB partition limit was introduced with MSDOS 4.0 in 1988 IIRC.

A single image taken by a Canon EOS 7D DSLR camera is around 31MB when using RAW+LF jpeg. This camera came out in 2009.

Imagine where we'll be in another 20 years.

 

[Piggie]

The Problem for Apple is that is they don't keep the update's coming along as soon as they can do something that's worth doing is that they will without question lag behind.

We all know Android Tablets will be made by many top end companies, and that they themselves will individually be trying to gains sales from other Android tablet makers.
It's not everyone on one side and Apple on the other.
By that very fact you can be sure as soon as something extra becomes available to use from chip makers in numbers that they are going to want to use it to give them the edge.
This is going to drive development even faster on that side of the fence.

If Apple keep chugging away, once a year with perhaps not even the best, but all they think you need as an upgrade, I can only see one result eventually in that they will be known as the slow, quality yet a bit mundane and boring tablets to go for.

Perhaps they need some fresh blood at the top, to give them a kick up the backside?

 

[anjinha]

Seriously. Apple, I get that you're a secretive company, but this is just annoying. You're making me really effing lose my patience. It's the most obvious thing ever, that the new iPad is going to be out soon, just GIVE US A DATE FOR THE ANNOUNCEMENT.

Yeah, that would be really smart of Apple. Announce the iPad 2 now and lose all the sales from now until release.

 

[Terrestrial]

Well true, except that at some point Apple does have to worry about consumers jumping to an Android platform if they don't get the latest and greatest out quickly enough.

Obviously the forum fans know generally when to expect an iPad 2. The general public doesn't. But what they do know is that a Xoom is coming out within weeks and that they will be able to play with one at Best Buy very shortly.

This is why I find the timing of the iPad 2 release so interesting. It is a careful juggling act. If the Xoom hits consumers as "eh" then Apple has nothing to worry about. On the other hand, if the Xoom has a wow factor the current iteration of the iPad doesn't have (cameras, speed etc) Apple will lose out until the iPad 2 is released.

But of course it does seem to be about the apps. The iPad app market is pretty astounding. I heard there are over 350,000 apps for it, giving iOS at least a 3:1 lead over Android. But the Android market is catching up very fast.

Still it's funny. I've seen videos of the Xoom and (no offense intended) it looks like more of a toy than the ipad. Looking forward to testing one out later this month.

 

[maflynn]

Well true, except that at some point Apple does have to worry about consumers jumping to an Android platform if they don't get the latest and greatest out quickly enough.

What are they going to jump too?

Xoom, its over priced. The tab, so far the sales figures aren't showing that.

Apple has never been a reactive company but a proactive one. They're not about to alter plans and schedules because of what competitors do.

 

[Terrestrial]

agreed the price is not appealing. If it was already out with LTE at $800, maybe. Consumers are going to gravitate to the lower price points, particularly with a completely untested product.

Or you buy one at Best Buy, get the buy back and a $400 discount on the iPad 2