Sketchy Claims of Revamped iPad with IGZO Display and Thinner Enclosure in Late 2012

[chrmjenkins]

These are mid production design changes. Not issues with QC/production. So, it is engineering. The iPad 3 should never have been shipped with 2 light bars and batteries that are too large, and give off too much heat.

I think I wasn't clear in the manner of my post. I categorically think any mid-production change on the iPad 3/ new iPad is false. They knew they were butting up against limits given the nature of the technologies they were incorporating and I completely believe it performs within limits they found acceptable.

Bob is tired. I'll bet he loved glueing those batteries in place inside Jonny's new MBP Retina Design.

It's obvious the iPad 3 was rushed. APPL should have waited for the new screens that are being introduced with 1 light bar and smaller batteries.

Empty speculating. They wanted to hit target specs for this iPad and they made compromises to get there. It's still a fine tablet that's selling very well. The iPad 3 wasn't rushed. It was a compromise given what technologies were available in volume at production time.

People used to boo apple for not being bleeding edge on specs and putting aesthetics first. Now that they're putting bleeding edge electronics out there, people are claiming they are rushing devices, being reckless etc. etc. It gets ridiculously old.

 

[Glideslope]

I think I wasn't clear in the manner of my post. I categorically think any mid-production change on the iPad 3/ new iPad is false. They knew they were butting up against limits given the nature of the technologies they were incorporating and I completely believe it performs within limits they found acceptable.



Empty speculating. They wanted to hit target specs for this iPad and they made compromises to get there. It's still a fine tablet that's selling very well. The iPad 3 wasn't rushed. It was a compromise given what technologies were available in volume at production time.

People used to boo apple for not being bleeding edge on specs and putting aesthetics first. Now that they're putting bleeding edge electronics out there, people are claiming they are rushing devices, being reckless etc. etc. It gets ridiculously old.

Going to have to disagree. I for one am looking forward to an iPad 3 iFixit teardown, say, oh, Sept/October?

 

[chrmjenkins]

If you get anything, it will be a 7" teardown. The only thing they've ever revised in a iOS device mid-cycle is when they released the 16GB version of the original iPhone. They don't do mid-cycle updates.

 

[kiljoy616]

Too many products was one of the main reasons for Apple's fall in the late 90's. The more products you have leads to more confusion, IMO anyways. If they do make a iPad mini, they are going to have to get rid of the iPod touch as there will be no reason to buy one because the price point will have to be below the iPad. Very few people would buy a 32GB iPod touch instead of a 16GB(or even 8GB) iPad Mini. That's just my two cents. One thing Apple has now that they didn't have in the late 90's is leadership. Hopefully whatever they are doing turns out to be great.

Well said, I would think they would not fall for it again. More choices more chance of buyer remorse also.

 

[dampfnudel]

If the IGZO display is ready, I think the temptation to save money and significantly improve the user experience would be too great for Apple to ignore. I don't know if they'll do it, but I'm sure at the very least that they're entertaining the possibility. I want an iPad (my first), and would appreciate an iPad that only took 3-4 hours to charge. 6.5 hours is too much.

 

[driceman]

So wait...

No, they are not.

A few commenters here and at AppleInsider have more plausible ideas about what Apple might have in terms of product updates, but the vast majority of readers on most technology blogs have zero understanding about the design and manufacturing process of today's consumer electronics and even less understanding about basic economics.

The majority of commenters appear to be teenagers or college students and random other types who have never worked at a Fortune 500 technology company and have zero insight into how a thoughtfully managed publicly-owned corporation would actually go about handling their product lineup and their supply chain partnerships.

Now, I'm not saying that one needs to have worked at Apple, HP, Dell, Oracle, Cisco, etc. to be a contributing member of a technology bboard, however, some of the people who comment here have very tenuous grasp on the real world, i.e., the one that mommy and daddy aren't paying for.

That said, some of these outlandishly unrealistic predictions can be quite amusing. Too bad that those who make them are perpetually disappointed about probably everything in their lives. They're the kind of people who think they should be dating supermodels like Brooklyn Decker or Kate Upton. Even more hilarious is the palpable sense of entitlement that these people exude.

These forums have never been as entertainingly ridiculous as today. MacRumors makes for some great science fiction, far better than Battlestar Galactica, Serenity, whatever.

Then why are you here?