Huh? People here sell their old models for the new models before the official announcement all the time. The goal is to sell before the buying price nosedives which happens after every announcement. For the most part it works out just fine.
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iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3 Now Available for Pre-Order
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Huh? People here sell their old models for the new models before the official announcement all the time. The goal is to sell before the buying price nosedives which happens after every announcement. For the most part it works out just fine.
Be sure to take screenshots of the disclaimer. I could see us having to fight for the Discover Deals 5%.
Well, not if you are selling and buying new ones every year. Most businesses buy devices and keep them until they no longer function for what they need them for. For iPads, that seems to be about 3 years. Technology always loses the most value in the first year. For instance, the 64GB 2013 iPad mini 2 is going for slightly less than half of the original purchase price now on purchase sites. It cannot possibly lose more in however many years it is held after that.
Actually, someone buying them for a business might like the new pricing, since they can get a basic iPad Mini 2 for $299 now, and it should still work fine for several years (at least as long as the iPad Mini 3 will work).
But there were predictions that only the Air would see a signficant upgrade, and they turned out to be right.
I don't see the "premium" part... It's the same price as last year's model. You're not paying any more than you would have for a new Mini 2 had they not updated it, and you're getting a Touch ID. You're not paying $499 for it.
Or, this may be the first opportunity we've had in years to properly evaluate our options without the weight of being locked into one ecosystem or another dragging down the discussion.
This unexpected break from hardware innovation on Apples part may be our opportunity to make a clean break from the increasingly jumbled mess of iOS.
And who knows what we may learn this year. Perhaps, after a year of the design & engineering teams not being glued to screens all day, we'll find their interpersonal skills quit deteriorating and they work together better. It'll be an interesting year.
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Last years model is still for sale.
...at a hundred dollars less.
Same last years ipad, for sale as-is, or +$100 with a semi-functional touch id. ...can't even use the touch id at registers, negating any useful expense reporting functionality.
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No, the fullsize iPad is not.
The mini, however, is just small and light enough to be easily portable. If you're a traveling professional, you're already carrying a bag. If you're meeting a client, it fits neatly in most jackets breast pockets, if you're on the shop floor, it even fits in the back pockets of your jeans. It is just large enough to be useful as a graphics tablet, a presentation device, and not appear so amateurish as whipping out a phone.
...it would be even more portable if they bothered to update it similar to the Air2 and it were to become slightly thinner.
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No surprise actually. People have money to burn. The iPad mini 3 has to be the worst update in Apples entire history. Only a fool would buy this model. Just get the 64GB or 128GB iPad Air 2.
Then whomever you tell that to might wonder, as I do, why you didn't simply wait until you had the information you needed to make an informed purchase decision.
The "loss" occurs whether one sells or doesn't sell. Depreciation happens. The reality is, when selling just ahead of the announcement, one loses 10-20% less that if they waited when you couple Apple's price cut on the senior model, the higher availably of those models in the used market, and the lower demand of those models.
So if one is fairly certain they will be upgrading and doesn't rely on them for business then it's hardly an "unbelievable poor idea." It's actually quite smart.
It is the worst update in Apple history, it's basically a test how many millions of people they can screw over
First iPad for me, and i ordered the exact same!
Woah! Same! It's my first one also! Tired of carrying around my MBP and 15 lbs of textbooks!
It is never in the tech specs. Leaked parts show 2GB.
You'll have to wait until next week to know for certain.
True, but last year's model is now $349 for 32GB storage. Add in the usual $100 bump to go from 32 to 64 GB if that option were available = $449. That's a $50 difference between a 64GB iPad mini 2 and a 64GB iPad mini 3 just to have Touch ID and/or a gold colored back. That's the premium if you honestly compare 2014 prices to 2014 prices.
Why should I wait for a 3rd party to inform me of specs that Apple should provide me right from the start like any other tablet manufacturer?
Nope. iPad min 2 is better. And soon you'll be able to get it at Best Buy or Walmart with additional discounts. I would look at something like $250 by Thanksgiving.
I do. Please read my follow-up post. It's merely an interesting observation that Apple would choose two very similar (possibly the same, just cropped differently) images but edit them with such contrast. Especially given the complaints regarding the Mini's screen/gamut.
(Okay, you don't need to re-read my post as I pretty much just re-typed it.)