The secret is to swear off girlfriends during your college years![]()
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.I would've paid a lot of money for a working backspace key.
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I find this interesting. Among my friends (I am in college) they are all disappointed that apple doesn't update their hardware as frequently as other companies. To non tech savvy people to wait 6 months to buy a new product is unheard of. They will just go out an buy the top of the line android tablet that came out days ago since they don't want to by a 5 month old device from Apple.
Makes sense, space out the releases to try and get more sales by having a few months in between maybe get some who bought the new full sized iPad to also get the mini.
That rumor was not unique to Digitimes. They merely reiterated what a half-dozen publications have stated before. WSJ and Bloomberg put out similar info (i.e. Retina iPad in Q1 ''12, revision in Q4 ''12) months before. As it stands, Digitimes' overall record is shoddy and every rumor they've started, they've gotten half-right, at the very best. Any rumor from them should be taken with a bucketful of salt.
Apple wont cannibalize the 9.7 ipad with Mini sales. So they will release the new iPad and in few month release an updated (now with iPad 3 Speeds) and retina display! They will purposely keep things a gen behind and up the margins.
lots of us will just choose to wait and not cannibalize our wallets
my ipad 2 is still going strong
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...
And with Apple products usually doing well in keeping their value, people are tempted to sell them while still getting money, thus a more frequent upgrade to the newer device seems less costly than using the old one until it breaks and then spending the full sum (without sales revenue) for a new device.
I wish people would stop demanding a retina iPad mini.!!
it doesn't NEED a new screen to be "retina", its already close enough to make no difference.
This is going to be bad for me. I made the decision a long time ago that if the next iPad mini received a Retina display, I would be getting that, ONLY if the 5th generation iPad didn't receive a thinner/ lighter bezel to make the physical size smaller. Now I'm at a fork in the road. If this does happen, what do I do? Do I get the iPad mini w/ Retina, or wait a couple of months to see if the 5th gen iPad has a smaller bezel? Ughh
These people are in the minority I would assume. For most people they are happy buying an iPad every 1-2 years or even longer.
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.