With a 6-month life cycle, buying anything from Apple at full price is foolish. The only way you know you won't be screwed is to wait for it to show up at refurbished store.
With a 6-month life cycle, buying anything from Apple at full price is foolish. The only way you know you won't be screwed is to wait for it to show up at refurbished store.
I completely disagree with the article. Apple will not drop the price. They rarely do. They are more likely to raise prices than lower them.
Their second argument: it's not a Retina display. That's correct, but is it really worth waiting for over a year (or maybe even two years)? That's 700 days without iPad.
Their third argument (the $499 iPad only costs $170 more). Well, but the onliest difference in specs between the iPad mini and the iPad 4 is its 9.7" Retina display and the A6 chip (X-variant, for Retina graphics).
A retina display is important, but I do not think people are willing to pay an extra $170 for it and lose the lightness, thinness and small size.
how about an extra 50$, iPad 3 refurb only cost 379 and its just as good as new one.
Well, than it is a tougher choice, of course. You'll still miss features like FaceTime HD and the lightning connector, though.
It's also the question for how long refurbished iPad 3s will be (widely) available.
I don't know, but not everybody is exactly the same like you. Just because it's useless for you, doesn't mean it's useless for someone else.I don't know about you.. but I haven't made FaceTime call in probably a year.
Well, than it is a tougher choice, of course. You'll still miss features like FaceTime HD and the lightning connector, though.
It's also the question for how long refurbished iPad 3s will be (widely) available.
With a 6-month life cycle, buying anything from Apple at full price is foolish. The only way you know you won't be screwed is to wait for it to show up at refurbished store.
Here is how I'm looking at the sub par specs of the mini -
It's $329 and in 6 to 12 months when the next one comes out, the iPad mini 2 should sell for $329 and will hopefully have retina, more ram and a better processor. At that time, I expect to be able to sell the original iPad mini for $200-$250 on ebay. The original iPad (2 1/2 yrs old) is selling for over $200 even today.
So basically I'm "renting" the iPad mini for $10 a month. I'm okay with that. If I sold my original iPad for $200 today I would have "rented" it for $10 a month..
Where do you get this 6 month life cycle? You're just making stuff up. All my old iPads still work the same as they did last week. No one was screwed over. You're making up your angst out of whole cloth.
The mini is Obsolete out the door.![]()
With a 6-month life cycle, buying anything from Apple at full price is foolish. The only way you know you won't be screwed is to wait for it to show up at refurbished store.
With a 6-month life cycle, buying anything from Apple at full price is foolish. The only way you know you won't be screwed is to wait for it to show up at refurbished store.
how about an extra 50$, iPad 3 refurb only cost 379 and its just as good as new one.
I don't know, but not everybody is exactly the same like you. Just because it's useless for you, doesn't mean it's useless for someone else.