More Claims of a 2048x1536 Resolution iPad 3 Display

[jkdsteve]

Good news, however something worries me.
Three suppliers.

I can see it now, people saying oh did you get the poor LG panel or the better Samsung panel?

Of the black levels are better on one, or their is a yellow colour cast on the other.

There are almost always issues with screens when different companies make them.

Let's hope and pray we don't go through this.

This post is spot on. If the quality is as variable as the iPhone4s screen then it will be a crapshoot to get a good one :-(

 

[Ieo]

Consumers response: YAY!

Developers response: Oh crap!

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I know I'll get downvoted for this, but its got to be said as its completely true...this WILL unquestionably be the start of fragmentation on iOS. People will still be using the iPad 1 and 2 for a good 3-5 years from now, meaning developers who do universal iOS design will have to create 4 sets of images.

You simply cant keep messing around with screen resolution changes.

So....your solution is to remain stagnant?

How about this.....Consumers vote with their wallets, and those developers who can't be bother to make the extra images and put out a competitive product will get left in the dust. Developers are dependent on the consumer...NOT the other way around.

 

[vitzr]

Promises to redefine Apple Tax

Perhaps that's what all the "Post PC" pep talk was about, preparing us for an expensive Pad.

 

[dmi]

4 images:

80px wide for the iPhone 3G
160px wide for the iPhone 4
192px for the iPad
384px for the iPad 'Retina'

thats going to make the filesize 4x the size it should really be

It's actually less than 1.5 times the size of the 384px alone, because the 384px itself is 4x the size of the next larger image.

 

[something3153]

Apple generally doesn't take a stand on form factors. If it works, it goes on until they think something is better...if not, it joins Pippin. I disagree and agree on the one-button mouse. I personally feel that if the industry had stayed with a one-button mouse it would have been a better overall user experience. Once the rest of the industry went with semi-arcane button combinations, third-party devices allows Mac users to interact. I personally hate going to Windows and having to think about which button does what. For me, its the same as all the small controls on other mobile platforms--Legacies from software engineer designed user interfaces.

Oh good, maybe you can explain this forms. How are right-click and left-click any more arcane than click and command-click? No one has ever explained this to my satisfaction. The same functions are available in each method, but the Apple version is the one that actually has a combination.

I had friends that had tens of thousands of dollars in LaserDiscs. AFAIK, they still have them in their basement. I feel Blu-ray is headed the same way. Once streaming from the cloud is universal, I won't need to take up my living space with little pieces of plastic. I no longer buy DVDs because I want to upgrade to Blu-ray...but I haven't upgraded to Blue-ray because I don't trust its longevity. The most significant result of my delay is...NOTHING. I haven't lost anything. I have found that digital fills my needs, so I will probably skip Blu-ray.

I could be wrong. I remember standing in the store looking at DAT and saying to my friend..."Wow! Look at the future!"

Netflix makes that a non-issue.

 

[Mr. Retrofire]

Netflix makes that a non-issue.

Only in the U.S.!

U.S. ≠ The World

 

[devinci99]

Other than something like that. just retina display + A6 alone wouldn't be enough for me to upgrade from an ipad2 to ipad3. Surprisingly the ipad2 is holding up really well performance wise.

Apple's is going to need harder for me to want to spend more money to upgrade; at the same time, I'm never surprised when Apple whips out something unexpected.

Frankly, I went from an ipad2 -> ipad3 and discover the financial pain doing so, and came to my sense that getting an ipad every eyar isn't going to be financially feasible. Every other year might be better; so Apple need to give me a good reason to upgrade!

For ipad2 part I almost didn't want to upgrade... but the reason was the camera! It was an easy way for me and anyone else with an ipad/computer/skype/ichat to communicate! I can instantly webchat with a few clicks and I'm talking. This was the killer feature the ipad2 had over ipad1 and it quickly demoted my laptop to bring it only when i really need to do serious coding.

I cant seem to think of anything Apple can really put into the ipad3 that would be the killer feature need...

I would LOVE to have 2x WiFi radio; so I can use 1, and put the otther in ad-hoc mode and make the ipad into a wifi-repeater + router. Useful at airports when I am paying for Wifi and want to share it with other wifi devices people on the trip with me. That might be the killer feature i would upgrade for. highly doubt they will do this...

24hr+ use/30days+ standby on single charge battery would also be another killer feature! Doubt it... technology has advanced that fast and far yet.

... passing down my ipad2 to my parents might be another reason to get the ipad3... At this time, its almost at the end of the ipad product life, and ipad3 is due out soon; so I usually don't buy ipads during this time... my as well wait until march for the ipad3 and get that instead of the ipad2...

 

[JayHD]

Just hold your iPad 2 4x further away.

That was effin' brilliant. Good job, sir.

 

[yeah]

It still has a crippled and restricted operating system, so I strongly doubt that it will kick anybody's ass except for that of its own user.

Crippled? Try android and you will see how "crippled" iOS is!

 

[justperry]

24hr+ use/30days+ standby on single charge battery would also be another killer feature! Doubt it... technology has advanced that fast and far yet.

Wrong
It has developed that fast only you and many others don't know yet.
Long long time ago, more than a decade there was this invention in an University in Holland, they invented a battery which could hold a charge more than 100 times than that of a Lithium Ion cell.
Didn't hear much after that.
Reason.........?
There are technologies now like nano wires batteries, they hold many times the charge of a Lithium Ion battery and charge in mere seconds/minutes but there are problems, not with the battery but others.
The main problem is that the bigger a charge the battery can hold the more dangerous they get.
Lets say you've got a battery 100 times the current iPad battery, that means there is 2.5 KW stored in that battery.
Even when it is only 10 times better that is still 0.25 KW
If it gets short circuited it releases that energy instantly and will explode right in Your face.
Not Apple nor any other company would like to deal with the consequences.
Airlines wouldn't be happy with them nor do many other companies.

And then there is the danger of it to damage the economies around the world.
If they release such batteries now there could be viable electric cars in no time, oil companies wouldn't be happy about it, hell I think they might be behind it to block those new inventions by all "means".

There are also other inventions which they just don't release because they are way too advanced for them to release now, like a light-Laser computer which is thousands of times faster than the ones We have now.

But, a battery which would hold charge to power the iPad for a couple of days would be viable and relatively safe, only problem is as always they want to release it in steps so they can earn more money on them.

What I find ridiculous in this world is that the manufacturers charge way too much for batteries, especially for rechargeable batteries.

 

[Dr McKay]

Consumers response: YAY!

Developers response: Oh crap!

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I know I'll get downvoted for this, but its got to be said as its completely true...this WILL unquestionably be the start of fragmentation on iOS. People will still be using the iPad 1 and 2 for a good 3-5 years from now, meaning developers who do universal iOS design will have to create 4 sets of images.

You simply cant keep messing around with screen resolution changes.

Fragmentation on iOS is inevitable, unless the games just don't advance graphically. At some point they are going to have to stop supporting the older hardware on the 2G/3G.

For those of us who got the 4S etc, Id really love to see what this baby can do in terms of graphics, but if an app developer makes a game which pushes the limits of the 4S, he's alienated himself from selling it on the 2G/3G/3GS/4.

So they make games that can run on all of them, and the power goes wasted. The closest thing to an exception to this rule was Infinity Blade, and all that was, was some graphical re-touches.