What?? In 4gen of iPad & 1 gen of mini there have been ZERO indicators of a flash being added... you were expecting this, why??
----------
Lol, spewed coke from my nose! :0)
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Next-Generation iPad Mini's Silver Rear Shell with Embedded Black Apple Logo Appears in New Photos
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
What?? In 4gen of iPad & 1 gen of mini there have been ZERO indicators of a flash being added... you were expecting this, why??
----------
Lol, spewed coke from my nose! :0)
The more I look at it, the more normal it looks. They could have made the outline a little more round this time around. Probably matches with iPhone C set up 
^ iOS7 banners
^ iOS7 banners
Focus on Poweful MacBook Air and Pro
IMHO, Apple should focus on producing more powerful laptops. I am willing to bet most users are interested in faster, lighter, sharper, higher-capacity laptops than any other Mac computer. I would like to see a 16GB of Ram Mac Book Air with 1 Terabyte of hard drive and the most powerful processor on the market, come on Apple, are you listening to your customers!
IMHO, Apple should focus on producing more powerful laptops. I am willing to bet most users are interested in faster, lighter, sharper, higher-capacity laptops than any other Mac computer. I would like to see a 16GB of Ram Mac Book Air with 1 Terabyte of hard drive and the most powerful processor on the market, come on Apple, are you listening to your customers!
That's swift. More controlled leaks of the coming 'Mini' refresh? This time by FanaticFone, after yesterday's WSJ affirmation of an upcoming retina version of the Mini, which followed on the heels of wednesday's 9to5Mac report, claiming a non-retina version. Taking bets now.....
Wait til the competition see THIS..clearly Apple havent been sat on their arses after all...at least they're innovating again and listening to what customers really want ... A newer Apple logo on the rehashed iPad ( the iPad Mini)
Can't rest on their past laurels, my arse!
Can't rest on their past laurels, my arse!
This is what the iPad mini back should have looked like from day one in my opinion.
Glad to see that they have made the improvement.
Glad to see that they have made the improvement.
This is iPad mini
This is just an iPad mini shell! Look at the hand that's holding it. I don't know about the rest of you but I have pretty large hands and I cannot hold my 9.7 inch iPad like that. It's not a standard iPad shell at all!
This is just an iPad mini shell! Look at the hand that's holding it. I don't know about the rest of you but I have pretty large hands and I cannot hold my 9.7 inch iPad like that. It's not a standard iPad shell at all!
You do realize that the PC market is in a free fall right now, right?
Tablets, smartphones, and wearables are the future. Apple will continue making great Mac hardware, but to suggest that it should be their focus going forward is to ignore the facts about what is unfolding on a daily basis in the market.
This is just an iPad mini shell! Look at the hand that's holding it. I don't know about the rest of you but I have pretty large hands and I cannot hold my 9.7 inch iPad like that. It's not a standard iPad shell at all!
Who said it was? Headline: "Next-Generation iPad Mini's Silver Rear Shell with Embedded Black Apple Logo Appears in New Photos"
I was confused at first, too. The first line of the article references photos of iPad 5's rear shells. If you don't read it carefully, it is easy to see how the mistake could be made.
Let's be honest, on stories like this we all glance at the verbiage and head straight for the photos.
if I'm watching a video I care about, I wear headphones. I agree speakers on each end would work better, but so would facing them forward, but either way sucks compared to headphones.
I agree to a point that the current secular shift for non-productive users is towards single-device integration with wireless protocols for paring it with peripherals and separate displays. However, it'll take paradigm changes in architecture and battery composition to make desktop replacement feasible for volume computation or content creation users.
Don't get me wrong, I agree that a tablet or smartphone cannot yet replace my MacBook as the daily driver for my job, but I think we also need to start moving away from the headspace that tablets and smartphones are "toys" and only for "non-productive" users.
Obviously I'm not going to build a website or retouch a thousand photos on my iPad, but as someone that travels frequently, there is great utility that can be found via many of the great apps out there for professionals.
I agree, dual speakers, one at each end is only logical. Giving Apple engineers the benefit of the doubt, I'm sure there's a reason but they can usually overcome such obstacles. It mustn't have been a priority.
There I don't agree, because the current crop of tablets and smartphones are toys, geared toward basic communication (which only phones really do well) and media consumption. I'm a software engineer, and the idea of doing any kind of app development on a tablet, or any mobile platform really, is laughable. Even content creation beyond basic image manipulation and Instagram-type application of pre-defined styles is absolute joke. Seriously, it took the release of the Surface (which I despise and am totally not defending) to have any kind decent Wacom-style stylus support.
Can you give some examples of apps for professionals?
this. it's not a black logo...it's reflective and only appears dark because of the angle it happens to be shot at.
----------
you seem to be confused. apple's growth business is their iOS line, not their mac line. thus listening to their customers means focusing on better iOS devices. but luckily for us, they will continue to release improved macbooks as long as they can get the latest mobile chipsets from intel. thats the bottleneck.
----------
yet theyre more powerful than all the PCs in decades past. where all those PCs just toys? and do you realize that mainframe folks said the same of PCs?
1) nobody is expecting to do software engineering on today's infant tablets. thats absurd. but luckily there are millions of people who do productive things not involving software engineer. 2) there are plenty of accounts from people who do web dev and even software dev on the go using their tablets (software dev requiring a terminal connection, of course).
completely false. google for novels, paintings, and music albums all produced on ipads. somebody posted a Daft Punk video recently showing how they record their albums on ipad.