I personally love having a smaller device than the standard air. I was thinking about returning my mini to try out the Air but the fact that I can quickly stash this thing (as it currently fits perfectly in many of my jacket inner pockets is too much of a benefit. I don't ALWAYS want to be carrying around a bag of some sort. Now, I don't have huge hands so typing isn't too bad with either the onscreen or even the small bluetooth keyboards out there so I don't have anything too negative to say about that. Now, with text, a lot better than the standard Mini which we still have one in the household but I bet with the larger Air, you can just imagine the benefit of having that ever so slightly larger text. Yeah, I'd like that. Once in awhile I have to zoom in but it's not like it's painful to do or is time consuming. Either way, that's my biggest downfall... But not a deal breaker as the portability for me is huge. It makes the difference for me whether the device is at home not being used or with me at all.
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That can be an eye for detail (or lack thereof) or it can be attitude. Getting mad over things like this is pointless. As you get older, you get more perspective, and you prioritize what you care about. Some of us learn that getting mad (at Apple or anybody) is a waste of effort. Dont confuse lack of getting mad with lack of passion or interest. It is just that some of the folks here get so worked up about things like gamut that it makes your wonder...
There is also Apple, who as a company is designing products to be used by its customers, and it is impossible to please everyone. So they do market studies and focus groups and they have their own internal compass and strategies about how they want to go about producing products. They make a decision. The decision, no matter what it is, is bound to upset someone. They can add 4GB of RAM, cover the whole gamut, and basically install jetpacks on their iPads, but they would cost more and satisfy only a very small percentage of their customer base. So they balance the features they include with the available technology to hit a particular price point and profit margin to satisfy the majority of their customers, but they miss a few who want or expect more. They can't please everybody. Somebody is getting upset no matter what. So they aim to please as many people as they can. And the numbers prove that they have been successful at that.
It would be nice if they had a Pro version of the iPad, like the Mac Pro or MacBook Pro, more expensive but with higher end features. That would be nice. Let them know at http://www.apple.com/feedback/.
In the meantime what they do have out is pretty nice for most people. Even with the iPad Pro I can GUARANTEE you there will be people not happy. It will be the price. It will be the size. It will be the weight. Whatever. You can't please everybody.
I saw two women today at the Apple shop buy two Apple Mini iPads. The sales guy asked them if they wanted the regular ones or he retinia models and they said that they could not see or tell the difference so they were just going to buy the regular iPad Minis which was basically the old models. To them they were buying something new that not everyone could see or they themselves could see. I wish I had customers like that at my shop
Remember that those displays are coming out of Asia so if they got a local doing QE on displays then that could explain the wash out not being noticed
I am knit picky myself and will update on how mine arrives once I receive mine. I ordered the 128GB version with LTE.
I picked up my 128gb with T-Mobile LTE from Apple in Cerritos today. Wanted to do a restore from my old iPad 3 so I had to wait to get home to hook it up to my laptop first.
Been playing with it for a few hours now. All s great except for the yellowish/grayish tint at the bottom half of the screen and someone lagging on keyboard while typing. The yellowish/grayish tint is quite annoying and quite obvious.
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Genuinely can't see anything wrong with this - it's a photo not a screen shot?
Likewise, can't see anything viewing on my mac or iphone. Screenshots aren't a genuine representation though. I know when I was having a moan about iOS 7 beta and took screenshots to show how cartoonish it looked the screenshots actually made it look much better