iPad Should I buy a iPad Air now or wait for the next one.

[barkomatic]

iPads are expensive and when you buy immediately after release you are maximizing the life you get out of it. If you buy mid-cycle then you've essentially lost 6 months of useful life.

Eventually, all iDevices no longer receive iOS updates and shortly after their usable life ends.

The exception is if you truly need it now--but this applies more to iPhones than iPads. One can't generally go without a smartphone altogether to wait for an update. Usually you can wait for an iPad.

 

[Mechayoshi]

Do you feel the need to update often? If so you might as well wait since you know the new model will fit your needs even more than the current one.

If the current Air will be fine, still wait because lot of people will be willing to get rid of their old Airs when the new one comes out and you might get a good deal.

 

[dishfan82]

iPads are expensive and when you buy immediately after release you are maximizing the life you get out of it. If you buy mid-cycle then you've essentially lost 6 months of useful life.



Eventually, all iDevices no longer receive iOS updates and shortly after their usable life ends.



The exception is if you truly need it now--but this applies more to iPhones than iPads. One can't generally go without a smartphone altogether to wait for an update. Usually you can wait for an iPad.

Take the 4s for example, it will get iOS 8 but it will probably be the last upgrade for that phone. By the time iOS 9 comes it will be 5 generations behind. The other thing is some features won't be on older devices because they can't support them.

 

[s2mikey]

iPads are expensive and when you buy immediately after release you are maximizing the life you get out of it. If you buy mid-cycle then you've essentially lost 6 months of useful life.

Eventually, all iDevices no longer receive iOS updates and shortly after their usable life ends.

The exception is if you truly need it now--but this applies more to iPhones than iPads. One can't generally go without a smartphone altogether to wait for an update. Usually you can wait for an iPad.

How have you lost six months of useful life though? The iPad 2 is still being used by millions of people and will get iOS 8 as well. Those that purchased them say six months after release are probably not looking back feeling that they lost anything. It'd be one thing if these devices had literally ONE year of support or whatever. Then you'd have a more valid point.

I just don't agree with this. That makes it so there is really only a couple of month window with which to buy an iPad otherwise you should wait ten months until the next one comes out.

 

[Robster3]

iPads are expensive and when you buy immediately after release you are maximizing the life you get out of it. If you buy mid-cycle then you've essentially lost 6 months of useful life.

Eventually, all iDevices no longer receive iOS updates and shortly after their usable life ends.

The exception is if you truly need it now--but this applies more to iPhones than iPads. One can't generally go without a smartphone altogether to wait for an update. Usually you can wait for an iPad.

Load of BS. I just bought a new retina mini for $80 less than release day price and will easily get 2 years out of it if I want.

 

[Xim0]

I'd wait till all specifications for the new Air 2 are confirmed by Apple.

 

[sracer]

iPads are expensive and when you buy immediately after release you are maximizing the life you get out of it. If you buy mid-cycle then you've essentially lost 6 months of useful life.

Eventually, all iDevices no longer receive iOS updates and shortly after their usable life ends.

The exception is if you truly need it now--but this applies more to iPhones than iPads. One can't generally go without a smartphone altogether to wait for an update. Usually you can wait for an iPad.

Load of BS. I just bought a new retina mini for $80 less than release day price and will easily get 2 years out of it if I want.

What exactly did barkomatic say that was a "load of BS"?

- Buying immediately after release you are maximizing the life you get out of it?
- Eventually all iDevices no longer receive iOS updates?
- Shortly after iOS updates cease for the device their usable life ends?

The iPad mini retina still receives iOS updates. Your response seems to be based on your emotions and the fact that you just bought a retina mini rather than on what the poster actually said.

 

[Gregintosh]

Take advantage of the T-Mobile deal and get a 16GB LTE one for the same price as the Wi-Fi one ($499).

That way if you decide to sell it later it will have more resale value than just the plain wi-fi one, and you can buy the new toy.

Given that TouchID is only NOW being opened to developers, I still think its going to be a year or more before apps can take advantage of it in a cool way.

Probably all its going to be for now is 1password and some super privacy apps (which I don't use) so that you don't have to enter passwords.

I am sure lots of fanboys will be locking all their apps on their private iPad just so they can use TouchID 100x a day, but for most users it probably won't be that big a deal.