iPad Section in Buyer's Guide?

[Genden]

Why no iPad section in the "Buyer's Guide?" No love for the potential iPad buyers?

 

[MacDawg]

This is answered in the FAQ and in several previous threads.

The basic answer is, there is no product cycle to gauge time from yet

Advice in the Buyer's Guide about the timing of purchases is based on the history of intervals between previous releases or upgrades. New Apple products like the iPad do not have such a history so we cannot make purchase timing recommendations on that basis. Once products start having regular updates we can add them to the Buyer's Guide. The second generation Apple TV released in 2010 is a different type of product than the original 2007 Apple TV, so the time interval between their releases is not a suitable basis for predicting future updates.