iPad 2 LCD for Sale Already? iPad 2 to Include Vibrating Motor?

[lewis82]

I never understood this, while I'm DEFINITELY not very adept at picking up languages (I pick up math easily, languages, not so much, the wife is the complete opposite), I couldn't imagine picking up a language with a tv and some internet forums....

I say I never got it, because I knew many Germans while I stayed there that claimed the same thing, picked up all their English from music and movies....

Well I had english classes, and I definitely learned a lot there, saying "everything I learned came from there" was an hyperbole. I have the feeling that I learned everything from there: these classes were boring and from secondary 3 on I recall learning next to nothing. You can't learn all colloquialisms while listening to a teacher whose mother tongue is french. I don't recall being taught how to use "(n)either", but I definitely remember the day I understood, thanks to forums.groundspeak.com While I could have managed to speak english with classes alone, reading and watching TV in english helped me reach another level of english fluency.

It's basically immersion, albeit on a smaller scale. Once you get fluent enough, you can use clues found in the dialogs or texts to understand the meaning of unknown sentences.

 

[aaronsullivan]

Many users here are calling that "cheap"

In this thread? Can you quote or link to any post for evidence? I thought I read the entire thread and I don't recall that. You're yelling and everything so I must be mistaken.

 

[BC2009]

Unless I missed those posts, all I read were people saying they were glad they skipped ipad1 and that they're looking forward to those cool new features. No one was criticising gen1 adopters. Its ipad1 owners that came in and started attacking these people and making defensive/sarcastic remarks.

See below at the snide remarks:

Boy, I'm glad I didn't buy 1st Gen! LOL!

The first sentence in and of itself is fine. He is glad he did not buy the 1st gen -- good for him. That is fine assuming a gracious tone of voice. But the "LOL" (my emphasis) changes the tone to mocking from gracious.

Then there is this guy who agrees with the first:

Same. Who buys a first gen anything from apple?

Ummm.... clearly he is implying that those who do buy the first gen from Apple are making a mistake. I'm pretty certain he is not conducting market search and actually asking somebody to produce the list of 10M names of people who actually purchased the iPad.

On the contrary the rebuttals to these statements are not showing any sort of "sour grapes" type remarks. So while the rebuttals are negative and mocking, there is no indication of "jealousy" as you stated. There is no "who needs that feature anyway" or "the iPad is fine as it is, why does Apple have to change it" or "Apple is screwing its customers by changing so much". On the contrary the iPad-1 owners are also excited about the new features.

So while the rebuttals are indeed negative and mocking, they are instead focussed on the ignorance in the statements made by those who finally feel they are able to justify their long wait and jealousy.

Aesop's "The Fox and the Grapes" is the best example of this and the origin of the term "sour grapes". The clear indicator here is speaking disparagingly about things that one desires but is unable to attain. I think the iPad-1 owners are clearly not jealous -- but annoyed at the disparaging remarks some "iPad-2 waiters" feel they have to make against the iPad-1 and against those who purchased them.

So negative yes.... jealous no.

 

[nagromme]

Sadly, John Gruber has posted (pretty convincingly) that there is no 1536x2048 display in the iPad 2. A better display in some way, probably, but not a retina display (and almost certainly nothing larger than 1024x768, since only double would scale nicely for developers).

http://daringfireball.net/2011/01/cold_water_ipad_retina_display

Aside from his unknown “sources” (though I consider his trust in them to be worth something), there’s the 1024x768 images in the iPad 2’s camera software. The old iPad has no camera.

That seems a lot more clear-cut than a few stray images in iBooks, which could simply be an error related to future-proofing, or be for testing the iPad 3! Because 2048x1536 seems inevitable someday (just not now), and so you just know Apple has started working with it already.

I’d LOVE the retina display to come this year, but for now my hopes are dashed. I can still imagine a tiny sliver of hope, where maybe Gruber’s sources know only about the low-end model (the one that uses the 1024x768 camera graphics)... and yet there’s also a higher model that Gruber’s sources are unaware of. That’s a pretty small sliver of hope Having two models like that makes good sense, price wise... but I’m inclined to believe that Gruber’s sources know what they’re talking about.

 

[p-rice]

I'm glad I sold my iPad and got most of my money back months ago. This rumored new iPad makes the first gen look primitive in comparison. It sounds more like a complete overhaul than a simple yearly upgrade.

 

[techdaring]

If iPad 2 come with a design like a demo at CES 2011, it's really bad !

 

[G4er?]

Does the rumored vibrating motor have anything to do with Apple allowing adult content on the iPad?