Indeed, the same way people who buy compact camera's just want a camera that works, they are not interested in megapixels in the specs.
That's only for tech heads.
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iPad 2 (A5, 512MB RAM) and iOS 5 Revealed Next Week?
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Indeed, the same way people who buy compact camera's just want a camera that works, they are not interested in megapixels in the specs.
That's only for tech heads.
Maybe they'll bring out candy colored iPad backs like the old iMacs..... that's what the different colored dots represent.
Indeed, the same way people who buy compact camera's just want a camera that works, they are not interested in megapixels in the specs.
That's only for tech heads.
Actually, *camera noobs* are often swung by the megapixel race and wrongly select the camera they will buy based on that alone.
The inevitable CPU and RAM upgrades are enticing - the iPad is much too slow for web usage when you're constantly loading new pages. I couldn't care less about the cameras.
What else? SD card slot, ha. It's anathema to how Apple designs and sells iOS devices, it'll never ever happen. Those storage upgrades are pure profit. That Engadget would believe such information for a moment reveals astonishing gullibility, and a "source" that's certainly not legitimate. "Engineering issues" my arse.
Anyway, some minor upgrades aren't really enough to get me to spend another $500. Unless there's something really unexpected, an entirely new use case (that's not videoconferencing), I'll be happy to keep the old iPad and wait for the third generation, even if it comes later than Gruber thinks.
What else? SD card slot, ha. It's anathema to how Apple designs and sells iOS devices, it'll never ever happen. Those storage upgrades are pure profit. That Engadget would believe such information for a moment reveals astonishing gullibility, and a "source" that's certainly not legitimate. "Engineering issues" my arse.
Anyway, some minor upgrades aren't really enough to get me to spend another $500. Unless there's something really unexpected, an entirely new use case (that's not videoconferencing), I'll be happy to keep the old iPad and wait for the third generation, even if it comes later than Gruber thinks.
Yeah the Samsung Galaxy S has 1GB of RAM and its a cellphone. And my next cellphone
This is all BS!!!!!!!!!!!
Apple has all the fancy graphics and wording in place. The packaging engineers and all the rest of that stuff is also in place.
If you believe every damn rumor about configuration a or config b,c,d..... Then
you are a sap sucker. Apple has already decided what the ipad 2 will be. It has most likely been engineered and ready for launch when they say so.
Just sit back and enjoy the ride.
Apple has all the fancy graphics and wording in place. The packaging engineers and all the rest of that stuff is also in place.
If you believe every damn rumor about configuration a or config b,c,d..... Then
you are a sap sucker. Apple has already decided what the ipad 2 will be. It has most likely been engineered and ready for launch when they say so.
Just sit back and enjoy the ride.
How bizarre that we're speculating on what the dots mean. Last year the iPad launch was a series of paint splashes. Nice and all, but you only got meaning from it in retrospect. And even then it pretty much meant SFA.
We all know it is iPad related. The hint was even more obvious than their hint with Lion.
And I hate to say it, even though the numbers set want to demand bigger ram, more pixels, more space, more battery and less weight, the iPad is already f'n awesome. They really, really don't need to do much to compete with the over priced, and under-utilized competition.
Hell, if all they did was change the colour of the back, and drop the price by $100, they'd whipe the floor of the competing devices. All except those cheap Chinese made crapboxes that people buy, getting excited that they're buying something like an iPad, at a quarter the price. Only to find it's so doggedly unusable that you throw it away after a week saying 'who'd buy a f***kn iPad at that price when these (tablets in general, based on their one bad experience with a knock-off) are useless'.
I'd be surprised if we see an A5 (A9) chipset.
I'm imagining
1.2 - 1.4ghz A4 single core chipset (currently 1ghz A4)
512mb ram
SGX543 graphics (single core)
VGA & 1.3 megapixel camera
Slightly thinner, Slightly lighter, Slightly better sound from new speaker grill.
and that's about it......
I'm imagining
1.2 - 1.4ghz A4 single core chipset (currently 1ghz A4)
512mb ram
SGX543 graphics (single core)
VGA & 1.3 megapixel camera
Slightly thinner, Slightly lighter, Slightly better sound from new speaker grill.
and that's about it......
No they wouldnt, just look at some of the benchmarks like load webpages of the xoom. Its ten times as fast as an ipad.
You used any of those? I have and even the dirt cheap ones (80-90$) offer a decent basic tablet experience.
If you want better you dont need to go that high, 350 and you get a decent branded android 9-10" tablet .
Even if apple would keep the ipad 1 at 399 in a couple of months it will be outpriced by better tablets.
No I agree, the Ipad sells millions to the 30 plus crowd who will never even consider an android device much less know one exists, he said nothing about speed benchmarks, simply that it will sell better, and it will. apple puts their name on it, its golden. Go to an apple store any given day and see the tutorials they have on ipad use, its like a bunch of 45 year old women, every day. find me a 45 year old woman who is rooting their android device and checking tech forums for the release of froyo.. not likely... and seriously... those 100 dollar chinese things are better utuilized as paper weights.. and you know it.... you just wanna sound like you know something you dont end of story
Maybe they'll bring out candy colored iPad backs like the old iMacs..... that's what the different colored dots represent.
Naaa I think apple is way over that lol
+1
I would put money on the fact that you are EXACTLY right... no joke, you should work for engadget.. or at least be their newest "tipster" haha
Cause there was little to no competition, now that is popping all over they dont even need to go to an apple storen, every supermarket is starting to have them.
I have an ipad, but if the ipad2 isnt significantly better or gets more expensive, the next is going to be an android tablet.
You dont need to, out of the boc experience is fine, and no doubt with 3.0 and the ******** of new tablets on its way that is only going to improve.
Did you ever use one? I used a ViaPad, 80$ import, works very good for just about anything besides 3d gaming. Wich would be what that typical housewife is looking for.
Just a thought....
I totally agree that the meanings are only ever apparent in retrospect; in fact yesterday I skimmed through the iPad keynote again to see how it fitted in last time.
Last year they made a big thing about content and creativity; hence the paint splashes.
So I wonder if this year those 'refined' creative impulses on the banner are again content and creativity in the form of....get out your ^H^H^H^Hkeyword bingo cards boys and girls.....Cloud-based Mobile-Me replacement service based in the NC Data Centre.
As you might recall the banners banners are often centred around the message as opposed the individual product(s).
Just a thought...
I totally agree that the meanings are only ever apparent in retrospect; in fact yesterday I skimmed through the iPad keynote again to see how it fitted in last time.
Last year they made a big thing about content and creativity; hence the paint splashes.
So I wonder if this year those 'refined' creative impulses on the banner are again content and creativity in the form of....get out your ^H^H^H^Hkeyword bingo cards boys and girls.....Cloud-based Mobile-Me replacement service based in the NC Data Centre.
As you might recall the banners banners are often centred around the message as opposed the individual product(s).
Just a thought...
I EXPECT TO SEE 512GB SSD, 8GB RAM, LIGHTPEAK, MATTE SCREEN, AND A FULL BODY REDESIGN IN THE NEW IPAD.
sorry i'm still enjoying the mbp trolley crash
A matte screen would be so awesome. I would love an entire tablet that jest felt like soft-touch plastic.
Because the rumors weren't even true and the SD Slot/Retina Screen I bet weren't even planned for the iPad 2 I bet.
Let's just all sit tight and wait for Apple to create the surprises next week. If we all have a little less expectation, the product Apple release will be much better than we think already. I do think that iOS 5 is key as well! Everyone here who gets locked up in hardware spec battles only have half the battle thought about.
512MB should be better, on my Jailbroken iPad I have the RAM Usage monitor, an iPad with Safari and mail open has about 80MB of RAM free, open 2 pages and it dips to 40MB..
512MB is most welcome.
Still gonna wait till my iPad 1 can't run the latest iOS before the switch though, maybe iPad 3
512MB is most welcome.
Still gonna wait till my iPad 1 can't run the latest iOS before the switch though, maybe iPad 3
The real thing I'm interested to see is iOS 5. That is going to make it or break it for me. I'm in a tough spot because I had an iPhone for three years before grabbing a T-Mobile G2 and I have a bunch of iOS apps that are currently getting no usage. Now I've been dying for a tablet for a while now (really would help with writing on the go, showing off video portfolio to clients, and as general entertainment device) but of course I waited for iPad market to develop and to see what Google was going to do.
Honeycomb to me strikes me as how a tablet UI should function and look, but of course Google launches it and aspects of it are still in beta. Now the iPad was similar at launch, but there was nothing else out there so it had the luxury of taking a little bit of time before developers got on it and started cranking out iPad specific apps. Honeycomb doesn't have that luxury and it's like Google was the only person at the tablet party that didn't know that. The XOOM seems to be fantastic superb battery life, superior browsing, and UI, but it's priced super high and the market really isn't developed.
Apple has never really let the competitors dictate what they do and I don't think they'll start now, but I really believe iOS needs a design overhaul. I don't feel as though Apple does nearly enough with all that screen real estate. Either way March 2nd should be interesting to watch. Really hoping to see some of the new Final Cut Suite soon. Hear it's awesome, don't expect to see that next Wednesday they're probably saving that for Vegas so I'll just see it there.
Honeycomb to me strikes me as how a tablet UI should function and look, but of course Google launches it and aspects of it are still in beta. Now the iPad was similar at launch, but there was nothing else out there so it had the luxury of taking a little bit of time before developers got on it and started cranking out iPad specific apps. Honeycomb doesn't have that luxury and it's like Google was the only person at the tablet party that didn't know that. The XOOM seems to be fantastic superb battery life, superior browsing, and UI, but it's priced super high and the market really isn't developed.
Apple has never really let the competitors dictate what they do and I don't think they'll start now, but I really believe iOS needs a design overhaul. I don't feel as though Apple does nearly enough with all that screen real estate. Either way March 2nd should be interesting to watch. Really hoping to see some of the new Final Cut Suite soon. Hear it's awesome, don't expect to see that next Wednesday they're probably saving that for Vegas so I'll just see it there.
Ahhhhh.... the Xoom. At this point in time, having a faster web page refresh speed is about as useful as tits on a bull.
Apple changed the rules dramatically with the iPad. The functionality of the device, as in what you did with it, exceeded the need to have the biggest, bestest and fastest under the bonnet. The IT community for too long has become complacent with just thrusting figures and comparisons into the frame.
You know what.... if I really wanted speed. I mean really... I'd just use my laptop. Which I am right now. I wrote the earlier message on my iPad, then when I needed to do some more work related stuff, I've popped onto my laptop.
I doubt that there's realistically anyone who has sat there and simply thought, Oh man... This iPad is taking SOOOOO LONG to load my page! If only I has a Xoom.... those things seemed so much faster on that video I watched.
Sure, I've had apps run slow. Sure, it would be nice to have it a bit faster. But, I can't say I've ever.... ever... ever been frustrated with anything but the speed that i've downloaded at... which honestly has nothing to do with the speed of the ipad, and rather the limitations of my broadband, and wifi.
To think that figures are the most relevant thing to producing an upgraded ipad, is like expecting everyone in the world to only want to settle for a V8 Mustang, or nothing less.
No... people want something that fits into their lives. Not something that has a lot of figures that they can roll off.
You seem to forget, the world's population is 52% Women. They don't want a set of Phallic expanding figures. They want something that does exactly what they want it to.
The iPad was the first on the market to get it right. That didn't just mean it had boasting rights, it also meant that it developed the eco system first.
All in all, it really is a Minor update that would be enough. These guys here on Mac Rumors wouldn't be happy, but sorry.... Realistically these geeks aren't the market.
And one more thing:
The customers aren't going to be walking between machines on display at the shops going 'Oh, which one displays web pages faster than the other'. No, they'll be going 'Which one makes web pages the easiest to read'?
This isn't a glass of device that sells by clock speed.
A few thoughts:
1) That sounds like a sensible and expected upgrade for the iPad. Frankly it'll be more than enough to keep pace with the Honeycomb tablets, especially if there's a significantly thinner / lighter redesign as well. Anyone crying about lack of a retina display, as nice as it would have been, isn't really living in the real world. It was always a long shot, albeit at least kinda sorta possible, but considering that everyone else is running close to the same res as the iPad this year and the iPad screen isn't exactly terrible in the first place it's not exactly surprising news.
2) One thing I could see Apple doing to twist the knife a bit more is drop the price. Assuming they double the memory at all current price points there's surely room to drop a 16Gb model in at $450, especially if they haven't had to invest in horribly expensive bleeding-edge components.
3) I do wish that Engadget had admitted they got it wrong rather than this 'last minute' rubbish. That's verging on Gawker levels of integrity right there.
1) That sounds like a sensible and expected upgrade for the iPad. Frankly it'll be more than enough to keep pace with the Honeycomb tablets, especially if there's a significantly thinner / lighter redesign as well. Anyone crying about lack of a retina display, as nice as it would have been, isn't really living in the real world. It was always a long shot, albeit at least kinda sorta possible, but considering that everyone else is running close to the same res as the iPad this year and the iPad screen isn't exactly terrible in the first place it's not exactly surprising news.
2) One thing I could see Apple doing to twist the knife a bit more is drop the price. Assuming they double the memory at all current price points there's surely room to drop a 16Gb model in at $450, especially if they haven't had to invest in horribly expensive bleeding-edge components.
3) I do wish that Engadget had admitted they got it wrong rather than this 'last minute' rubbish. That's verging on Gawker levels of integrity right there.