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iPad 2 = Slight upgrade. Are you really that surprised?
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Quote your source for more RAM? None was mentioned, nor is there any indication of it on the new Apple iPad spec page.
What do you expect? A unicorn handle on top?
Beside making it thinner what else can you do to an iPad case? This is as 'all new' as they can do.
Beside making it thinner what else can you do to an iPad case? This is as 'all new' as they can do.
Doesn't surprise me, Apple does the really big upgrades every other generation. What does surprise me is the utter lack of attention to the OS. I know many are predicting iOS5 in the summer with the iphone5, but IMO that's too little too late. Maybe I'll consider picking up a bargain ipad2 on craigslist in the summer when they release iOS5.
People calling this a slight upgrade are the same ones who think that the 3G was a bigger update than the 3GS.
somehow i doubt that with them saying that "year of the ipad" focused on ipad 2...
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Agree 100% mate, it seems like a big upgrade for me. So much thinner, lighter, faster, ahd hdmi mirroring (which is huge for me)
I like the idea that my kid can play angry birds in the sofa also while looking at the tv.
Yea, but they'll still have to look down at their fingers on the iPad to grab the bird
They've basically added all the features of iPhone and the Touch except for Retina display... sure they can improve processor and battery life even further... but unless they innovate something else.. there really isn't much else that is "outside the box" for the iPad 3. Of course that may all change once we see something significant with iPhone 5 that may end up being incredibly creative.
It's marketing, plain and simple, genius marketing IMO. Tablets with better specs are already being announced with one being released, but the ipad2 will still outsell them all.
They put in more than I was expecting.
If the reality is 'slight' then I'm not sure what to call my imagined version.
If the reality is 'slight' then I'm not sure what to call my imagined version.
The cameras were a given as soon as the MBP showed up with "facetime".
The size and weight - lots of limp wrist people I guess.
I may upgrade, not March 11 though, let the dust settle and you guys work out the bugs.
The size and weight - lots of limp wrist people I guess.
I may upgrade, not March 11 though, let the dust settle and you guys work out the bugs.
I think many are missing the point. The iPad 2 does have some nice features but Apple does the 'slight' upgrades to get you excited about the new one only to do it again 6 months to a year later just after you finished paying for the one you just purchased... ingenious!
I guess it means those specs are irrelevant and don't suit consumer's needs at an appropriate price, then. I agree.
They could just release an iPad with 'twice' the upgrades half as often. The end result is the same (unless you have zero control and throw your money at every new Apple device there is). That's not Apple's fault.
Yes, because the software and the app store have nothing to do with it. Nope, it's just TV ads and nothing more.