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iPad 3 Media Event Planned for Early February?

Navdakilla said:
Love the 2. 3 will need to blow me away to get it
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That was my opinion last year. The original iPad was fine. I didn't need a camera and extra processing power/ram would have been nice, but not full cost of the device nice.

It's getting a little long in the tooth now though so unless the iPad3 is an utter dud I will probably be upgrading.
 
clarity...

AustinIllini said:
Best "one last thing..." ever? YES

Going to happen? NO
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Just to clarify my previous comment: I meant that with whatever Apple is planning on announcing regarding their education/publishing related media event this Thursday, that it wouldn't be surprising that they want to get the iPad 3 officially announced by mid-Februry, in order to help maintain people's enthusiasm ahead of the target March launch of the product itself -- but still allowing the public enough time to wrap their head around the new content possibilities around the device, i.e. maximizing their marketing tactics with these particular announcements.

Not that Apple will have a hard time selling the iPad3 in general mind you, but if what's being speculated about the educational publishing sector is true, that is an exciting prospect indeed. :cool:
 
For my part, a retina display means an automatic upgrade to an iPad 3. Short of that, at least a few of the following need be present...

128GB capacity
Material bump in processing power and/or ram
Better camera
Thinner/lighter
Longer battery life
LTE

Given what I use my iPad for (see my signature...) more of everything except weight is always better!!
 
bobTX10 said:
If I wasn't so content with my iPad 2, I'd totally get an iPad 3 :p
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If you love the iPad 2, just think how much you would love the iPad 3. Seriously though, I don't know if I will have the disposable cash for this one unless my tax refund is great. My iPad 2 is doing great for me, but a retina display and more memory (for iMovie) is so so tempting.

swarmster said:
These are the rumours I like to hear, but an early February event for an early March release doesn't make any sense. A month without iPad sales? Apple has way better control over its manufacturing pipeline than that. And what if the iPad 2 is sticking around? You don't drop the price before the iPad 3 is out, so do you have a second event for that? It's just weird.

Now, a very late February event for a very early March launch I can get behind. Can't wait!
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They could simply drop the price of the iPad 2 at the announcement at let folks know the iPad 3 is coming and start taking preorders as well. The iPad 2 is so great, that offering it at a lower price might actually boost sales, but might sabotage their iPad 3 launch. I'm not sure Apple cares so long as they are making money. They don't report the iPad sales separately.

mattburley7 said:
it does make sense to have the event a month early to give developers time to develop apps for the retina display. what would you rather have? announced in late february and released in early march with no apps that are retina display quality?
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Exactly. If they are changing display resolutions they will need to let devs know and they will need to release a version of iOS (say 5.1) that supports the new resolution.

Hammie said:
So will the invites say, "Three's a charm, but Quad's are better." :D
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lol. loved it.

rumz said:
I was content with my iPad 1 when the iPad 2 came out. Then I installed iOS 5 last fall... ouch, performance hit. Dying for an iPad 3 now :D
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If your iPad 2 is slower with iOS 5 then something is wrong. Mine is faster and so was my iPhone 3GS before I upgraded to the iPhone 4S. I found iOS 4 required more processing power, but iOS 5 seemed lean and mean to me on every device I upgraded. Don't know if something else is going wrong on your iPad. Has anybody else experienced this sort of thing?
 
Funny enough, I have full plans for getting the iPad 3, but that's only because of someone who already wants my iPad 2 should the iPad 3 come out. So in a way, I have a pass-down gift waiting to happen. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't even bother to jump on it due to how great my Ipad2 is.
 
AS was previously said.

Last year Apple flooded everyone with emails about buying your loved one an iPad1 for Valentines day as you love them so much so they could clear out all their old stock on the quiet, before almost directly afterwards announcing the next model at the same price.

Unless Apple have suddenly become Mr Nice Guy, I can't see them spoiling their chances to dump the old stock out in the same was this year also.

Unless of course, they are going to perhaps slightly drop the current iPad2 price and make the iPad3 a more expensive model, then, announcing a dearer model would not do so much damage to valentines sales.
 
Piggie said:
AS was previously said.

Last year Apple flooded everyone with emails about buying your loved one an iPad1 for Valentines day as you love them so much so they could clear out all their old stock on the quiet, before almost directly afterwards announcing the next model at the same price.

Unless Apple have suddenly become Mr Nice Guy, I can't see them spoiling their chances to dump the old stock out in the same was this year also.

Unless of course, they are going to perhaps slightly drop the current iPad2 price and make the iPad3 a more expensive model, then, announcing a dearer model would not do so much damage to valentines sales.
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:D Yeah, I'm sure they're going out of their way to protect that famous Valentine's Day sales spike.
 
theBB said:
They may have already given some developers early access to an iPad with a retina display and a beta iOS that can support it. A couple games, a photo editor, Apple's iBooks, a few magazines, and maybe a sketching and a productivity app would be enough to serve as launch partners.
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^^^^ o_O

Knows WAY too much... Apple employee?

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Clearly wishful-thinking-by-frothing-at-the-mouth-fanbois

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Most reasonable Rumor since the Retina display one

neilw said:
If true:
As widely suspected, Apple will continue to sell the iPad2. At the event, Apple will announce iPad 2 price drop, effective immediately. That way they can continue to sell the iPad2 in the gap between announcement and availability of the iPad3. Although some buyers will obviously wait for the new model, they'll get plenty of oomph out of people snapping up the newly cost-reduced iPad2.

Sounds great. I hope it's true.
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Yes this makes the most sense out of all the crazy rumors I've heard on here (especially from Digitimes smh) but man I believe the explaination that they are going to announce it a month early so they can make the new retina apps & that they are going to make the iPad 2 cheaper (idk how much cheaper but it will) but the thing is I just got a bad feeling as if that's not going to happen but I PRAYING that is will!
Are there any other reasons why this wouldn't happen? I need some peace of mind so I can feel good that this will happen…I want my first iPad!
 
mattburley7 said:
this makes sense if they want to give developers some time to get apps retina display ready by the launch of iPad 3 and thats if the iPad 3 even has retina display.
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True, but it doesn't make sense from the business perspective. Apple wouldn't announce the new iPad a month in advance and risk hurting sales of iPad 2. The only way an early announcement will make sense is if Apple simultaneously drops the price of base iPad 2 model from $500 to $300-350 to drive sales up.

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dino12 said:
I just wish they would put the computing power of the air in an ipad and make it your all-in-one computer with the wireless keyboard and mouse. Pop your ipad air out of the dock and take your entire "Computer" with you.
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And it would be even better if they also add an HDMI port, a few USB ports, a Blu-ray and Floppy drives too :rolleyes:

Clearly, you are missing the point here. The iPad is successful precisely because it lacks those things you mention. The iPad was rethought and created from the ground-up to be lighter, faster, cheaper and much easier to use; there's absolutely no point for Apple to make it back into a desktop PC.
 
BC2009 said:
If your iPad 2 is slower with iOS 5 then something is wrong. Mine is faster and so was my iPhone 3GS before I upgraded to the iPhone 4S. I found iOS 4 required more processing power, but iOS 5 seemed lean and mean to me on every device I upgraded. Don't know if something else is going wrong on your iPad. Has anybody else experienced this sort of thing?
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It's an iPad 1-- not an iPad 2. I suppose it's possible that something's wrong, there were some hiccups on install / upgrade (had to do a factory reset). I suppose I could wipe it again and re-install. Browser is sluggish, there's often lag between when I type on the on-screen keyboard and when the letters actually show up on screen, several apps are no longer as stable as they were in iOS 4. It feels almost as buggy as the HP TouchPad was when it was released. Very un-Apple-like.

Edit: Looks like I'm not the only one:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3400742?tstart=0
 
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What if the "iPad 3" won't have a "retina display"? Will it be as big a "dissapointment" as the iPhone 4S?



/sarcasm
 
pgiguere1 said:
Because it's the third complete redesign.

I think if there wasn't that 3G connectivity marketing term and confusion, the best thing would have been to call them the iPhone, iPhone 2 (currently 3G), iPhone 2S (currently 3GS), iPhone 3 (currently 4), iPhone 3S (currently 4S).
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It's not really that hard to count and make sense of why Apple names their phones what they name them. 3G signified "3rd generation mobile telecommunications" The S stands for "Speed". in line after the 3GS, was the 4th iPhone, and so on, and so forth. Not really that hard to comprehend, but so many people here seem to have a hard time with it.
 
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1st qtr launching is great b people have cash from tax refund.
 
My iPad 2 is going out to it's new Home Tommorrow, the cash from that will stay safely hidden until I can give it to apple for my iPad 3
 
If the rumors are true then I can't wait to get the 3rd gen. As long as the design stays similar or the same as the 2nd gen.
 
macjoshua said:
i'm finally ready to jump on the iPad bandwagon, even though i never really used to see the need for it. to be honest, i have an iPhone and i still don't see my need for an iPad - i just want one.
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You will see the need if and when you get one. For me it's an Air mated with an ACD at the office, iPhone while on the go and iPad while relaxing at home.
 
gorskiegangsta said:
True, but it doesn't make sense from the business perspective. Apple wouldn't announce the new iPad a month in advance and risk hurting sales of iPad 2. The only way an early announcement will make sense is if Apple simultaneously drops the price of base iPad 2 model from $500 to $300-350 to drive sales up.
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I can't see them announcing a month in advance of shipping either. In their last earnings call, they blamed rumours and leaks about the next iPhone for disappointing sales numbers. Apple will handpick their favourite developers, get them to sign an NDA, and provide them with an iPad 3 under very strictly supervised conditions allowing them to create iPad HD versions of their apps.
 
rumz said:
I was content with my iPad 1 when the iPad 2 came out. Then I installed iOS 5 last fall... ouch, performance hit. Dying for an iPad 3 now :D
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Very odd. My iPhone 4 has virtually the same hardware as the iPad 1 and iOS 5 performs far better than iOS 4 every did. I've also upgraded a few iPad 1's with iOS 5 with no performance drop that I could tell.

Back on topic. If iPad 3 has a "Retina" display it's a Day 1 online order for me. If however its just a faster CPU/GPU with better cameras and SIRI, i'll pass and stick with my iPad 2
 
2IS said:
Very odd. My iPhone 4 has virtually the same hardware as the iPad 1 and iOS 5 performs far better than iOS 4 every did. I've also upgraded a few iPad 1's with iOS 5 with no performance drop that I could tell.

Back on topic. If iPad 3 has a "Retina" display it's a Day 1 online order for me. If however its just a faster CPU/GPU with better cameras and SIRI, i'll pass and stick with my iPad 2
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The iphone 4 has a much smaller screen than the iPad 1. You cant compare the two just because they use the same CPU.

I've noticed a significant hit on the iPad 1 since being on iOS5.
 
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