Ditto. I was glad polls have indicated this, and I'm definitely going this route. Of course, I'm just going to order on Apple.com, no lines for me.
The 32g WiFi seems the best compromise of price, storage, and features.
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iPad Supplies to Be Constrained at Launch Due to Production Issues?
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Ditto. I was glad polls have indicated this, and I'm definitely going this route. Of course, I'm just going to order on Apple.com, no lines for me.
The 32g WiFi seems the best compromise of price, storage, and features.
I love how people are still finding excuses to cling to the same old false hope that they'll add (camera, flash, blu-ray, full OS X operating system, toaster, positronic net...) at the last minute.
My guess is they've discovered some more child labour.
Either that or just limiting supply to create demand. This is not an unusual thing (remember Nintendo's Wii?)
My guess is they've discovered some more child labour.
Either that or just limiting supply to create demand. This is not an unusual thing (remember Nintendo's Wii?)
You can tell that to the first iPhone customers. They will be delighted to hear that their first generation iPhone was part of the usual product evolution. You buy something that only came out a few months ago and within weeks, it gets drastically reduced in price... with a new model coming out. You can find dozens, if not hundreds of threads with angry customers. Apparently, it's not only me who doesn't like leaving everything to Apple, when it comes to upgrading. Caution is deserved.
I also remember when the unibody MBs and MB Pros came out... No Firewire on the MB, which later returned... Is that responsible product development? I don't think so.
But you put your money where your mouth is and buy an iPad as soon as they come out, OK?
Huh??? Lots of whiners about lots of things. I bought a gen1 iPhone before the $200 price drop, as did many friends. So it cost $100 more (after "rebate"). Big deal. Mine paid for itself several times over in that period. I personally don't know anyone who was upset about it. And everyone knew the 3G was coming out a year later. As far as $199 3G, I also don't know anyone who wished they had waited. The 2.5G plan was $15/month cheaper w/ texting.
I actually thought the problem was down to not enough young children were left in the factories to build the things after the recent problems in this area.
Job opportunity for you. Go get it.
I do remember people saying that 3G wasn't needed at the time. I also remember people claiming that web apps are perfectly fine substitute for native apps.
It was nice of Apple to give the $100 rebate (went straight to Leopard Fam pack...) but at the same time still kinda shoddy that the price would drop so soon after launch. It was like admitting that the product was priced too high and that not enough people were buying it.
Which seemed even more obvious when the 3G became subsidized the following year (so much for changing the way we brought cell phones right?).
I wouldn't trust anything Misek says. He has a terrible prediction record based on his "production checks", including his latest that VZ iPhone was to have been announced in January. Rumors like this started by "analcysts" are part of market manipulation.
LMAO.
How rude.
I was a first iPhone customer - it was great. I was also an adopter of a Bondi blue iMac, and bought myself 9 - yes nine - 27" iMacs, first generation, about three days after they became available. I have a macbook air, a first gen iPod (still going strong, with original battery) and an iPod touch now several versions out of date.
No problems with any of the devices.
I will be buying as many iPads for the office as I can - at least one for each of our photographers and one for myself.
If it didn't do what I needed it to do, I wouldn't buy it.
If new features are made available with later product iterations, then that is the nature of business, of technology and of real world economic pressure.
What exactly is your point? If it doesn't do what you want, don't buy it.
If a later version does, then buy that, if you want.
The device does what it says it will do (flash aside, but I have click2flash installed here anyway and don't touch any flash websites if designers can't be competent enough to provide alternative content. Flash is a security issue, a resources hog and compiled like a POS), if in future versions it does more, then great, when it comes time to upgrade and I really want a new feature offered, then I will upgrade.
No one is forcing me to buy first gen, or to upgrade.
I would never have use of a front facing camera on the device - the ergonomics alone mean that it would need to be propped up on a desk to do that, and I have a desktop machine for that already sat there.
I don't understand the need for 'multi-tasking' as long as notifications for email and chat run in the background - I can only do one thing at once with a 9.7" screen, and only have one finger to point with, why do I need to have two apps active and being utilised simultaneously? The app switching as demonstrated works just fine for me.
I'm only vaguely surprised some idiot hasn't asked why this thing can't be used as a phone. Apple "missing out" yet another feature.
The device is fit for stated purpose, Apple are denying delays and sticking to their launch date. Where's the issue?
Listening to the nay-sayers on these sites, it's irrelevant if apple have a supply issue as no one will be buying these things.
Do make you minds up.
Apple really can't win with you, can they?
I'm guessing you were one of those people screaming at the loss of firewire 400, even though you barely ever used the port. I'm guessing that people with firewire devices who needed the port didn't buy one of these and stayed with their existing kit, or bought alternative products. I certainly wouldn't buy something that didn't do what I needed it to do, and I see nobody forcing me to do so.
Anyway, back on track, Apple listen to their customers, and put back the firewire port.
So if Apple do listen and put something back into a device - that's irresponsible product development. If Apple don't listen, they're an evil money-grabbing corporation?
Make your mind up.
Not sure I understand the web apps/native apps comment. Aapl obviously knew what it was doing by delaying that. And I honestly knew no one who had a problem with the price drop. It was a deal at the original price--$600 for a handheld computer that ran circles around everything else then available. It's not that it was priceed too high--just priced too high for the number of units aapl wanted to sell, and customers T wanted to attract. And as far as the subsidized 3G model and how we bought cell phones, doesn't really make much difference when you have one U.S. carrier, but it opens up the available market for ownership to people who think in monthly terms. Many would rather pay $1500+ up front for 2 years of ownership/use plus insurance, but that's not the American way.
From what I recall Apple never mentioned any sort of native apps (what we have now via the app store) when the iPhone was first released. They pushed web apps (like the ones you find on Apples web site). Some here argued that web apps were just as good as native ones, so native ones were not needed.
It was a deal at the original price, and I think it should have stayed at a higher price (personally), not because of elitism, but because I honestly thought Apple was going to try to break the subsidy model. Instead they embraced it. Not really changing the way we (Americans) bought cell phones.
Be honest though.
What would really look better for a new product (and a new untested "type" of product?)
Millions made and plenty in the shops everywhere.
In fact you can walk into most stores and see them sitting on shelves just waiting to be bought.
Or, under supply and they can harldy be found anywhere.
Shops get a few in and instantly they are sold out again.
Ebay at a high price.
People announce they are one of the lucky ones that got one and show off their hard to buy (even if you want one) new gadget.
What would really look better for a new product (and a new untested "type" of product?)
Millions made and plenty in the shops everywhere.
In fact you can walk into most stores and see them sitting on shelves just waiting to be bought.
Or, under supply and they can harldy be found anywhere.
Shops get a few in and instantly they are sold out again.
Ebay at a high price.
People announce they are one of the lucky ones that got one and show off their hard to buy (even if you want one) new gadget.
Have you seen how thin the sides of the ipad are? They're about 7mm only. It can't fit a full SD-card reader. Maybe a microsd-reader at best.
Probably don't want to be one of the first in line for these things anyways. Let the early adopters get the bugs worked out.
I'm hoping that most people will go after the WiFi units. But even if I have to wait another couple of months for the 3G units, it's really no big deal.
I wonder if the 3G one will be available at the end of March. I just can't see buying the Wifi only version, I will kick my self in the ass within the first month. Sure, this is San Francisco ... free wifi everywhere. But I want to have the 3G when I travel.
If they are saying only 300k of the Wifi only one then I am not worried. Since it looks like more people are buying that version, which is strange to me.
What I am really hoping for is a price drop ... the 16GB one is too limited in space, i'd like to get the 32GB one but its too pricey with 3G.
If they are saying only 300k of the Wifi only one then I am not worried. Since it looks like more people are buying that version, which is strange to me.
What I am really hoping for is a price drop ... the 16GB one is too limited in space, i'd like to get the 32GB one but its too pricey with 3G.
Again, the obsession with "thin" triumphs over "useful".
Or not. My old Latitude X1 (fits in a manila envelope) has an
SD card reader, and its sides taper to - drum-roll - 7mm.
I suspect that the real reason is that Apple doesn't want to let
people see the filesystem on the Ipad, and connecting USB drives
and SD/SDHC/SDXC cards would make that hard to explain.
(Why can't I store music/videos on my 256 GB SDXC card and
play/watch them on my Ipad?)