I'm pretty sure it was one of those guidelines they had at the release of the first iPad. I'm not sure if it is still the case as App Store guidelines tend to be very fluid.
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New iPad to be Called 'iPad HD' and Not 'iPad 3'?
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I'm pretty sure it was one of those guidelines they had at the release of the first iPad. I'm not sure if it is still the case as App Store guidelines tend to be very fluid.
I am pretty sure he was very involved still with a project that came less then a year after his death....
No he would makes it sound like something stupid naming scheme Microsoft would come up with.
Reminds me of this bit old Microsoft humor http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EUXnJraKM3k
i agree - it shouldn't be called an ipad 3.
If it smells like a rat, looks like a rat, it must be a...
ipad 2 HD
If it smells like a rat, looks like a rat, it must be a...
ipad 2 HD
The numbering system does make you wonder how long they will keep the numbering system. I'm on the iPhone 4 and looking forward to the iPhone 5. Beyond 5 it starts to get a bit old, how is it going to sound by the time Apple reaches the iPhone 16. Using the same numbering system, I'm probably typing this on an iMac 40.
The HD branding seems to conflict with their Retina Display branding of the iPhone, unless super high definition screens are going to change from retina display to HD.
I guess we'll know tomorrow, I wonder if Apple formulates some of their own rumors to keep people guessing.
The HD branding seems to conflict with their Retina Display branding of the iPhone, unless super high definition screens are going to change from retina display to HD.
I guess we'll know tomorrow, I wonder if Apple formulates some of their own rumors to keep people guessing.
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*flips table*
Just call it iPad no numbers,letters nothing plain and simple just like apple likes it!!
*flips table*
Just call it iPad no numbers,letters nothing plain and simple just like apple likes it!!
Day after tomorrow (based on my time zone). I feel like Apple might leak fake rumours from tie to time just to gauge how people would react to it. I may sound like a conspiracy theorist for saying this, but I really think the rumoured iPhone 5 designs that were "leaked" last year were just a way to research how people would like the design.
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I definitely have some level of OCD about me and these are the kinds of things that bother me. I wouldn't buy an iPad HD even if it was a great product just because of it's name. Similar to why I don't use the native twitter for iPhone client solely because of the blue they picked to put in the banner (ugh...it is disgusting, makes me want to puke). Meaning to my post: iPad HD is a horrible name.
I definitely have some level of OCD about me and these are the kinds of things that bother me. I wouldn't buy an iPad HD even if it was a great product just because of it's name. Similar to why I don't use the native twitter for iPhone client solely because of the blue they picked to put in the banner (ugh...it is disgusting, makes me want to puke). Meaning to my post: iPad HD is a horrible name.
iPad whatever, iPhone Whatever.... they're still iPads and iPhones.
It's really rare to hear anyone use the model designation in conversation, and it's kind of annoying when people do. Normally if I'm at the bar, if you ask, "what phone is that?" YOu get back, "An iPhone" or "A droid." (Worse with Android devices, because people tend to really lump them all together which doesn't give that particular device a lot of differentiation.) Then you have to say, "Is it the 4, or 4S? I don't have Siri on mine, and was wondering how it worked."
And then there was the really stinker... does everyone remember the uproar over it being called the iPad in the first place? Everyone voted it down and moaned because they all wanted the iSlate. Now, iSlate sounds really weird, and that was what we all expected the iPad to be. I'm glad the maxi-pad jokes have gone away at least.
It's really rare to hear anyone use the model designation in conversation, and it's kind of annoying when people do. Normally if I'm at the bar, if you ask, "what phone is that?" YOu get back, "An iPhone" or "A droid." (Worse with Android devices, because people tend to really lump them all together which doesn't give that particular device a lot of differentiation.) Then you have to say, "Is it the 4, or 4S? I don't have Siri on mine, and was wondering how it worked."
And then there was the really stinker... does everyone remember the uproar over it being called the iPad in the first place? Everyone voted it down and moaned because they all wanted the iSlate. Now, iSlate sounds really weird, and that was what we all expected the iPad to be. I'm glad the maxi-pad jokes have gone away at least.
Actually, it is not. It is so 2005. Remember good old Steve Jobs? January 2005, Macworld SF, he said 2005 would be the year of high definition [video].
Why would they call a product they expect to sell until at least 2013 something like that? Calling it 'iPad 2 HD' doesn't quite make sense, because it kind of suggests, the 'HD'-screen is the only meaningful upgrade. 'iPad 3 HD' seems redundant as Apple usually prefers not to put too much information in the product name, 'iPad 3' would provide enough distinction from 'iPad 2'. The only other name apart from 'iPad 3' that would make some sense to me would be 'iPad 2X', it follows a previously used pattern of adding a single letter to a new product's name and, of course, it provides actual information about the product (resolution x2) just like '3G' did for the iPhone.
I don't care what they call it. Just release it...
The never named the various revisions of iPods (they still don't, even with the iPod Touch); it's hard to tell the models apart sometimes...
Gary
PS - Do you really think the 6th iPhone will be called the "iPhone 5"? It's really the sixth iPhone. And making it clear it's the 6th iPhone sound's like it's been more revised than the 5th iPhone (which it really isn't anyways).
The never named the various revisions of iPods (they still don't, even with the iPod Touch); it's hard to tell the models apart sometimes...
Gary
PS - Do you really think the 6th iPhone will be called the "iPhone 5"? It's really the sixth iPhone. And making it clear it's the 6th iPhone sound's like it's been more revised than the 5th iPhone (which it really isn't anyways).
He was already cited to have worked hands on with the new iPad, the iPhone 4S, and even the next iPhone. As well as leaving a 4 year roadmap... so you sir are correct, and the person who voted you negative needs to read more.
Whatever name it has, Jobs probably came up with it himself. It was also his idea to use pad instead of slate.
iPad HD just doesn't roll of the toung well and sounds old/over used..doesn't sound like something apple would do. BUT I agree with you, if it is named iPad HD we will hear it every day and it will grow on us and we will learn to love the name.
remember when the Apple Tablet was released and No One thought it would be called "iPad" - people were saying it sounded silly.. now look....
"iPad HD" makes far more sense then "iPad 3".
Why?
Because this is a minor feature bump, not a whole new iPad. The processor inside the machine is an A5X, not an A6. It likely contains extensions for Siri, but is otherwise identical to the one in the iPhone 4S.
The GPU is probably the same (maybe they've doubled the VRAM- but I doubt they'd have swapped the unit out for anything newer), the RAM is probably the same, the Flash capacities are likely the same.
Everything is the same except the display, and potentially whatever is required to drive Siri if they decided to include that.
It's not a "whole new iPad". It's just the iPad 2 on steroids, like the iPhone 4S is an iPhone 4 on steroids. It makes much more sense to name it the "iPad HD" (or "iPad 2 HD") in this manner then it is to bump the series number, because then people are going to expect a whole new device (similar to what we saw with the iPhone 5 looking nothing like the iPhone 4 chassis wise).
-SC
Why?
Because this is a minor feature bump, not a whole new iPad. The processor inside the machine is an A5X, not an A6. It likely contains extensions for Siri, but is otherwise identical to the one in the iPhone 4S.
The GPU is probably the same (maybe they've doubled the VRAM- but I doubt they'd have swapped the unit out for anything newer), the RAM is probably the same, the Flash capacities are likely the same.
Everything is the same except the display, and potentially whatever is required to drive Siri if they decided to include that.
It's not a "whole new iPad". It's just the iPad 2 on steroids, like the iPhone 4S is an iPhone 4 on steroids. It makes much more sense to name it the "iPad HD" (or "iPad 2 HD") in this manner then it is to bump the series number, because then people are going to expect a whole new device (similar to what we saw with the iPhone 5 looking nothing like the iPhone 4 chassis wise).
-SC
Perhaps the next iPhone will follow suite? This would put the 7th iPhone on track to be called an iPhone 7. Going from 4s straight to 6 sounds like an iPhone 5 went missing.
But, amusingly, people were just as adamant that they would:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2362875,00.asp
Right, as they do the iPod Touch, or all other iPods.
iPod Touch (4th Generation) is good enough.
It might be a factor of them having to work with other companies or carriers for these products, so they name them for that purpose. Imagine a customer walking into an AT&T and saying "I want an iPhone." "Which one?.." - It's also a matter of them selling multiple editions at the same time.
Also, with laptops, it usually seems to be a spec upgrade. Not extremely too much difference between Macbook Pro early 2011 to Macbook Pro late 2011. But iPhones are redesigned completely every 2 years or so, and the features in them change from one to the other.
It makes a lot of sense for them to keep naming them something different, but they might want to at least create a system. iPhone 5 cannot be named iPhone 5, since it is not the 5th iPhone. (I guess it technically could be, but wouldn't make sense.) - and if they jump from 4S to 6, people will probably be confused.
When I bought the iPad 2, I thought they had brought me an iPad 1 cause the box just says iPad. Maybe the box will say iPad HD instead, signifying something a lot different than the last one.
Car manufacturers change the year in the model name regardless of the number of changes made. It's still that year's model, even if released in August the year before.
Naming is all about marketing.
I DO NOT see them calling it the iPad HD unless they have a new non-HD model or a smaller version of the iPad.
Gary
Naming is all about marketing.
I DO NOT see them calling it the iPad HD unless they have a new non-HD model or a smaller version of the iPad.
Gary
