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iPad Mini Launch Attracting Shorter Lines on Launch Day
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The lines may be "mini", but at least there are lines! I've NEVER heard of lines for a Samsung product
I know what you mean... I would wait in line for the Note 2. However, I'll be able to stroll in to my att store and pick one up no problem.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/video/2012/nov/02/apple-ipad-mini-video?CMP=twt_fd
The girls at 1:00 sum up precisely why the iPad Mini is going to be a huge success.
The girls at 1:00 sum up precisely why the iPad Mini is going to be a huge success.
Experience
I waited in a very short line for the iPad mini. There were several units left when I finally bought mine. The excitement was low key, but I suspect many pre-ordered, and others are waiting for LTE.
In personal use, I like it. Form, and function, are excellent. I have a iPad 3 and don't miss the retina display as the pixels are tightened up on the 7.9" display. I could see the mini becoming my iPad of choice on form alone. I feel Apple has another hit on their hands, which will grow steadily as people experience them "in the wild."
I waited in a very short line for the iPad mini. There were several units left when I finally bought mine. The excitement was low key, but I suspect many pre-ordered, and others are waiting for LTE.
In personal use, I like it. Form, and function, are excellent. I have a iPad 3 and don't miss the retina display as the pixels are tightened up on the 7.9" display. I could see the mini becoming my iPad of choice on form alone. I feel Apple has another hit on their hands, which will grow steadily as people experience them "in the wild."
so far, one of the most insightful and smart comments in this thread here.
this prevalent non-retina whining and iPadMini bashing is part of a tech-fetishism culture that lost more and more grounding in what is really reasonable and truly necessary.
i haven't bought an iPad because of its size, and stuck with iPodTouch instead, waiting for a smaller form factor, using my MBAir instead. the iPadMini is precisely what I need, and I assume many others agree. Like others, as soon as the LTE is out, i will have one. ANd like others, I didn't go to buy a nexus or whatnot. Even given superior specs, I wouldn't do it because, like many others, all computers I own are from Apple. And i do not want to bother with any fiddling around to get things done -- one of the main reasons to stick with Apple: their stuff is just easy to deal with.
so what if iPadMini doesn't have retina display? When iPad2 came out, people where salivating over the screen and overall experience. Suddenly, human evolution increased eye sensitivity and this kind of resolution is no longer bearable -- some declaring here that below retina they cannot endure any display! Oh, what refined senses and tastes they are blessed with! Just like any other bourgeois snob who cannot endure any wine below 95 Parker points.
This is childish complaining on an unprecedentedly comfortable level of end-user satisfaction. And most of those complaining never had to develop such a device in the first place and have no understanding of the reasons behind form factor and component decisions that large teams of highly talented people made over months of analysis and trial-and-error. Give those guys at Apple some credit -- especially considering the fact that most of us here would have no chance to land a job at that company simply because we are not good enough.
can't use with one hand
Think about it: Anything with a stylus means you can NEVER use it with one hand. I owned about 10 PALM devices. That was enough with a stylus.
Think about it: Anything with a stylus means you can NEVER use it with one hand. I owned about 10 PALM devices. That was enough with a stylus.
The lines may be "mini", but at least there are lines! I've NEVER heard of lines for a Samsung product
Is not it amazing how Samsung manages to sell twice more smart phones (and more mobile devices in total) than Apple without any lines?
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Galaxy Note does not require one to use a stylus. It has regular touch interface. It offers additional features (not available on other smart phones) that provide extra precision and pressure sensitivity which can only be used with stylus but those make no sense without a stylus anyways. In short, nobody uses stylus for using Facebook on Galaxy Note.
I wonder if this phenomena (Apple lines) even exists in non English speaking countries? GB feeling like "little brothers" and following in the foot steps of Americans is a well known fact. What about, say, France?
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Looking at your sig line I couldn't stop laughing. You have seen the sheep and guess what...
I love my iPad 3 but it is a bit heavy and thick. The Mini addresses the thickness and weight issue head-on, but that means, at least for this generation, no Retina until Apple figures out how to reduce power consumption for the screen. A retina on the Mini right now would mean it would be a lot thicker and heavier. Will I get one? I am inclined to wait until next year as I am more keen on getting a new laptop this fall, but I might change my mind after playing around with a Mini. It is hard to step back to non-Retina after the iPhone and iPad 3.
The A5 is fine. It was fine in the iPad 3, which was really just an A5 with wider memory interfaces and more GPUs to handle the increased pixels. So the A5 is really only one generation behind, if you understand chip design. I suspect that Apple really wanted to have the A6X in the iPad 3 but they could not get it done in time so they hacked together the A5X. Of course the A6 and A6X are ridiculously fast and it would be awesome to have an A6 in the Mini, but I would assume that the iPad Mini and iPod Touch will always be a generation behind the iPhone and iPad, that is your Pro and Mini lineup right there. Next year the Mini will likely get an A6 with Retina, or at least something approaching retina DPI.
My advice is do not get hung up on specs, there will always be something better coming out in a few months.
there are one or two exceptional posts here that give some excellent reasons for the short lines for the iPad mini. In addition don.t forget that this launch is as compared to the last few is being simultanious in 26 countries both retail and online orders. they have 10 million in supply.. forget my grammer, broken laptop and keyboard at the moment..,l,/ u know what i ment... with i pad 1 and 2 we had to wait 3 months for some countries.... now they can supply most of the world straight away.... we will hear the numbers next week... u bethca it will be hiogh despite...m how it seems;[]-
How did yours get shafted, that sucks. I was lucky I guess. Mine still works like it did when I bought it, same speed, still has retina, even got a free upgrade to the OS a little while back. How did yours stop working? Try taking it back to Apple store, they'll replace it if something is wrong.
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Amen brother! I was furious when they announced the fourth gen iPad. I'm a launch day buyer, but have definitely learned my lesson on that one!
All progress should stop to allow a cooling off cycle for previous buyers.
We call this phenomena, SADs. Satisfaction Apple Dependent syndrome.
iPad 2 line atApple Store in Beijings shopping area, Xidan.
iPhone 4S line also in China
Apple store opening in Munich, Germany. I do not know if a product launch corresponded to the opening
Somehow I have hard time buying your story... an Apple user of 15 years wouldn't be seduced by specs and cheap plastic... that's the antithesis of what Apple is all about. And as a N7 and former HTC Desire owner, Google Play, the "Android store" doesn't come close to Apple's App Store when it comes to offering apps optimized for big screens. In fact, it's downright awful.
Because of that, I view the Nexus 7 as essentially a giant phone without the ability to make calls. It's a good deal if you don't have a smartphone, but a waste of $200 if you do, IMO.
I went to a local (non apple) store to see if they had any on display. They didn't" but had just had a second shipment in (having sold their first to people who had queued overnight), so I bought one.
I've only had it a few hours, but it is absolutely brilliant - it's unbelievably light and still feels really well built.
For me, the mini isn't just the best small tablet - it's the best tablet, period!
I've only had it a few hours, but it is absolutely brilliant - it's unbelievably light and still feels really well built.
For me, the mini isn't just the best small tablet - it's the best tablet, period!