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iPad Mini Update to Trail Next Full-Size iPad Launch by Several Months?
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The secret is to swear off girlfriends during your college years
If you manage that, your a stronger man than most
I would trade my iMac, iPad and iPhone for the fun I had with Girlfriends in college any day. Somethings are just to much fun not to waste money on
And when I was in college, we had to buy our own stuff. For many of us, we did not have $400 in disposable finances to spend on anything other than books, tuition, and for the fortunate, the one computer.
Dude, my papers for the first 2 years of school were done on a typewriter, LOL.
LOL, I did catch the beginning of the iDevice revolution while in college and grad school, but living on a $1,250 stipend (out of which tax, rent, food and books will have to come out), I settled for a second hand PC rather than a Mac, and got my first iPod in early 2005 as a gift for my first -real- job.
I predict that Apple will release products as soon as they can get them into the stores.
Apple is the most reported on company in the world right now. It does not matter when they release a product. It will always be a big media event.
If they launch mid-summer, they will get parents buying for their kids who are heading back to school in the fall. If they launch in the fall, they will get the Christmas shopping season.
The longer they wait to launch a new product, the more sales they risk losing to competitors.
Apple is the most reported on company in the world right now. It does not matter when they release a product. It will always be a big media event.
If they launch mid-summer, they will get parents buying for their kids who are heading back to school in the fall. If they launch in the fall, they will get the Christmas shopping season.
The longer they wait to launch a new product, the more sales they risk losing to competitors.
I know this is on the second page, and few will see it. Jaredly was NOT saying that they upgrade their stuff every 2 months. He was saying that his buddies are not going to justify spending full price on an iPad that was released 5 months ago.
He's saying they want the latest tech when they make their purchase. Not that they buy the latest tech every 2 weeks...
Why don't they just make the mini a phone and call it good. It's not that much bigger than those giant android phones anyway.
Fingers crossed for a more feature rich iOS 7
If it's just flatter looking it will be a huge fail
If it's just flatter looking it will be a huge fail
lots of us will just choose to wait and not cannibalize our wallets
my ipad 2 is still going strong
Starting production in November means the iPad mini would miss both back-to-school and Christmas buying seasons. That makes about as much sense as Apple buying a clothing retailer. Then again most of the Apple related articles in Digitimes make even less sense than that.
I might be the only one that thinks this but from a profit stand point it would most definitely be more beneficial to release them separate from one another to get some people that just can't wait for new mini to cash in early and spurge for the iPad 5.
This was exactly what I was trying to say. My friends are poor college students like everyone else and when they are going to spend money on new tech they want it to be the newest thing on the market. Yes resale value and arguable OS isn't as good in android tablets but many feel a three day old android tablet is more worth it than a 5 month old IPad
This. This is exactly why I am able to keep up with Apple with the exclusion of my iPhone, which I just wait until the contract ends each time, and my Mac, which I [plan to] upgrade ever 4 or so years. I've had the iPad 2, New iPad, and now the iPad w/ Retina Display. By following this site religiously, I normally am able to sell my current 16GB iPad's on eBay a week before Apple announces the newest one, and therefore sell them for anywhere between 450 and 490! So yes, while you could look at it in 3 or 4 years and just equate it that I've spent at least 700 bucks on the 16GB wifi iPad 2, I prefer to just look at it that I'm only spending about 50 bucks to upgrade. Not such a bad deal if I must say so myself.
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Buy a retina iPad Mini AND new glasses.
I guess the answer depends on the kind of buyer you are. If you're the type to upgrade every few years, it doesnt really matter, you'll be replacing it soon. If, however, you're like me and want the best, but cannot afford to constantly upgrade, so you keep things for a while, then wait. What's a couple of months in the grand scheme of things. Make sure you get the one that fits you best. A fully loaded iPad is around a $1000. That's not disposable for me. Therefore, I'll make sure I get the one I really want and keep it for 5+ years and love it every day.
I'm currenly writing this on an oritinal iPad and I like it. It was my mom's. She bought it for her business and upgraded to the 3 about a month before the 4 came out. She doesn't care, because she'll replace the current one in another couple of years. Her business writes it off. I haven't bought one myself yet, because the iPad isn't quite where I'm willing to spend that kind of cash yet. When this one came out and I played with hers (again, this one) and really liked it, but I wanted 3 things before I dropped a grand: a facetime camera (iPad 2), full HD resolution (iPad 3) and 1/4 TB of storage (almost). Then I'll have the iPad that I'll be happy with long enought to justify that kind of money.
Apple is highly skilled at marketing. They've cleverly set themselves up for more profit taking than ever.
By milking the iPad mini for all it's worth, concurrently they will sell more full size iPads than if they flipped it and gave a retina display to the mini before releasing the next iPad.
There's no hiding the fact they are choking on all the cash they have and prolonging the release of the next iPad mini with retina. (if indeed they upgrade the display)
This is nothing more than business as usual for Apple.
By milking the iPad mini for all it's worth, concurrently they will sell more full size iPads than if they flipped it and gave a retina display to the mini before releasing the next iPad.
There's no hiding the fact they are choking on all the cash they have and prolonging the release of the next iPad mini with retina. (if indeed they upgrade the display)
This is nothing more than business as usual for Apple.
I bought my first iPad, an iPad 3 16gb, the day after last Christmas and will probably not ever buy another tablet. I bought it because Skype is blocked in Kuwait, but Facetime is not.
Yap I see them squeezing ever bit out of their devices. *sigh* That fact and their lack of increasing memory etc in their devices led me to purchase a Note 8.0... For the last 3-4 years all our devices have been Mac. I am also considering building a PC again. I hope they do something quick like add memory slots or drop their prices on these things because people are starting to go elsewhere and the reports are showing it.