The real question is what's going to happen when they discontinue the iPad 2 & iPad mini? Maybe they'll keep the OG Mini around but give it a spec bump? That $299 price point is a nice entry level figure to snag first time customers.
Because iPad 3 performs the worst in actual usage: high resolution retina display coupled with an old CPU with overloaded GPU.
Thank goodness it's the worst of them. I have one of those and sometimes it's like waking up the dead. If Apple had put the Touch ID on the iPad Air, I may have upgraded already. But it didn't and I know it'll be on there soon enough. But man it is painful at times, especially with me using more now taking college classes and using e-textbooks.
Some apps obviously don't need the camera to work but they require it. It is a technical method for them to exclude support for iPad 1 and any iPod Touch older than the 4th generation.
If I buy a refurbed ipad, does Apple just change out the body and the battery?
Good, I hope they also discontinue the 1st generation iPad mini. Then we will only be left with retina iPads with a minimum of an A7 chip.
My sister has an iPad 1 she got handed down to her. She's frustrated that she can't update to iOS 7, which means she can't get a lot of the newer apps. When Best Buy had its "we'll give you $200 for any tablet" promotion again, I told her to either get an iPad mini, iPad mini WRD or iPad Air. She doesn't want the mini because she likes the bigger one.
I just made sure to tell her NOT to get the iPad 2. It will obviously be the next one to get support dropped, and I don't want her going through that again within a year or two after spending $200. I can only guess that the iPad 2 sells a lot in bulk. But I honestly don't get why Apple didn't make the iPad 3 the $400 iPad because it has a retina display and I believe has the same guts as the iPad mini.
Umm there has be two iterations of the iPad 3 and many people were still buying the iPad 2. There is finally a drastic drop in purchases.
The iPad 2 is FAA approved, you do not have to switch it off during take-off and landing. As far as I know, no other iPad has this.
I still have an iPad 1 and for watching video and reading PDFs, it is still good, albeit a bit heavy.
Updated to the OS might be a concern but as almost all Android devices are happy to get even 6 months of OS updates, seems like a lot of people do not care too much about that. (I tried an android unit, never again straying from the Apple-camp... 6 months lag to the only upgrade I got... wtf).
Unless you play games or do something more CPU intensive, the iPad 2 is a great piece of Kit
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The real question is what's going to happen when they discontinue the iPad 2 & iPad mini? Maybe they'll keep the OG Mini around but give it a spec bump? That $299 price point is a nice entry level figure to snag first time customers.
5% seems pretty high. Not sure why anyone would buy it.
This is bad for the iPad 2. I think Apple may discontinue it this year.
I was really, really happy with my iPad 2 until iOS7 was launched. After that it is noticeably slower with the apps I use most, like Safari (often hesitates for 10-15 seconds before pages load) and Readr (opening the app can take 3-4 minutes, which is almost a third of my commute). iTunes can hang for 10 seconds sometimes. Wifi is also not so good anymore - streaming from iPad 2 to Apple TV gives me horrible picture quality.
But things like Evernote, e-mail and calendar work just fine and that's what makes me stick with it.
I'm holding out for the next version.Then my kids can finally have the iPad 2 for themselves.
Edit: I'm also quite happy with the battery. It's still giving me about a day's worth of action.
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I bought my new 8" Android tablet for $99 last month and has better specs than ipad 2.
They fix whatever else isn't working too. All they're saying is they guarantee that the battery and case will be replaced, just to remove all potential signs of use.