True. But the latest rumors have significantly scaled back on some of the advancements suggested by the earlier rumors. Such is the nature of the business, I suppose.
But I agree with others who think that Apple is repeating the mistakes it made with the iPhone with the iPad. Rather than go for the jugular, Apple seems content to just mull along, bouyed by their high margins even as other competitors claim significant market penetration.
Sony's NGP, Honeycomb, the 3DS, etc... Sure, this is a diverse space and you can turn virtually any portable electronic into an iPad competitor, but it seems to me that supports going big rather than incremental. I can't help but think that Apple's trend toward yearly, incremental upgrades with the iPad, rather than iconic upgrades when technology dictates, will prevent them from capturing as much of the market as it could. Yearly upgrades to the iPhone make sense given the nature of mobile phone contracts. But in the tablet market? It seems arrogant to assume that planned obsolescence punctuated by middling upgrades that all probably come a year later than they should are not going to produce the kind of growth that Apple has seen in the iPhone.
I suppose it's not surprising. They took the same approach with the iPod. It just happened to work out the other way. But the competitors today are much smarter and much more organized; they won't make the same mistakes that niche competitors in the MP3 space made a decade ago.
Bottom line is this: Generally, when it comes to the iPhone, Apple always seems to push the envelope with new features. How come it's the opposite with the iPod and iPad? Everyone thought that the iPad 1.0 should've had cameras. Now that's basically all we're going to get out of iPad 2.0? Yawn.
