Keeping it as a collectors item would be a good idea, you might even sell it big as a vintage collection when time comes.
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When are all of you gonna sell your iPad?
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Don't hold your breath. I've got a 128k (circa 1984, the first apple Macintosh), it was $2500 new, but its worth almost nothing right now. It's part of a hobby mini-collection, but I doubt it will ever be worth anything. Granted that's computer hardware, a desktop PC, but I still don't see things like the iPad, iPhone, etc. Ever being worth anything. Especially considering the volume by which they will be sold, and the lack of utility (in 25 years what on earth could you do with it? I mean folks thought the 128k could do everything. We will have technology that blows this away)
It would be cool to show you grandkids though, "back in my day, electronics didn't read your mind, you actually had to touch them and use them, it was manual labor! Of course that was before King Jobs took over the world with that doomsday chip he implanted on the iPad 2"
-John
For anyone selling their 64 wifi iPads.... How much would be fair? Mines been in a case since day , so i was thinking about ebaying mine before the keynote next month, just to be safe...
The one thing, I got my iPad in may this year right when 3G iPads were sold out, but I didn't need 3G this whole year then...
I need to plan on this carefully before a huge flood on eBay after keynote since we all know this will probably happen.
The one thing, I got my iPad in may this year right when 3G iPads were sold out, but I didn't need 3G this whole year then...
I need to plan on this carefully before a huge flood on eBay after keynote since we all know this will probably happen.
I agree, although I don't see the iPad being of significant value in the future, showing it off compared to whatever technology we'll have then would be cool
I won't be selling mine that's for sure, I just got it for Xmas and having tons of fun with it. Maybe I'll upgrade when iPad 4 comes out
I've never once purchased a gadget and given any thought at all to its "resale" value. These electronic gadgets typically lose value month after month.
That said, I have learned to respect that Apple products tend to hold their value much more so than other types of gadgets. I've already sold my iPad and got 95% of the purchase price for it. That's pretty amazing really.
Yeah, that's the other extreme. I've also got an original Mac Desktop purchased new in 1984 when they were first released. Along with an original Atari 400, Atari 800, Osborne luggable and several other early-history laptops and portables, some dating back to 1979 (although by today's standards, we'd call these 'breadboards' and little more). Used electronics don't really appreciate in value unless its a one-of-a-kind, such as an early Nintendo or Sony Playstation developers' unit. I've got one of those too and its just not worth that much.
That said, I have learned to respect that Apple products tend to hold their value much more so than other types of gadgets. I've already sold my iPad and got 95% of the purchase price for it. That's pretty amazing really.
Yeah, that's the other extreme. I've also got an original Mac Desktop purchased new in 1984 when they were first released. Along with an original Atari 400, Atari 800, Osborne luggable and several other early-history laptops and portables, some dating back to 1979 (although by today's standards, we'd call these 'breadboards' and little more). Used electronics don't really appreciate in value unless its a one-of-a-kind, such as an early Nintendo or Sony Playstation developers' unit. I've got one of those too and its just not worth that much.
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Unless the iPad successor has some feature that I absolutely must have, then I would probably list my iPad on eBay a few days prior to the iPad 2 release. However, what is most likely going to happen for me is that I won't be blown away by any of the new features, and I'll just keep my iPad.
If Apple's past history offers any indications, the iPad 2 will offer a slightly different form factor, more memory, a faster processor (marginally) and a few additional unique features (cameras? ports?). But nothing so revolutionary as to make the prior generation product completely obsolete. Their App Store is too big of a profit driver for them to do that.
So the real question is more "What's it worth to you to upgrade?" When it comes to Apple, Moore's Law may apply, but not in the interval of a single year. It will still take some time for the upgrade to be a "must have" sort of thing.
So the real question is more "What's it worth to you to upgrade?" When it comes to Apple, Moore's Law may apply, but not in the interval of a single year. It will still take some time for the upgrade to be a "must have" sort of thing.
I'm only fourteen so I can't upgrade my iPad every year so I have made up a schedule if you will. Every year I upgrade my iPhone, every two years I upgrade my iPad and just give it to someone in my family, then once I can afford either a iMac or MacBook Pro I will only upgrade it once it completely dies. I think this year I may skip the iPhone so I can afford either the iMac or the MacBook Pro.
There is hope for the next generation with more young people showing that kind of planning, patience and discipline. Bravo.
It would be good for a vintage collection when time comes, LOL!! 10 years or 20 years from now who knows what kind of technology that awaits us.
If the iPad 2 is a huge improvement, I might just gift mine to my wife, and convince her to let me buy the new one.
If there is no major improvement, I will hold out until it is worth it.
If there is no major improvement, I will hold out until it is worth it.
Don't have an iPad, so yes, getting one when the 2G lands. Probably get a 3G networking one too, 'cause my WiFi is busted and our only computer that gets online is about 15 years old.
But everyone who is worried about the upgrade being minimum;
the iPhone 4 was a huge jump from the 3gen iPhone.
The ipod touch was, too.
The apple technology is getting grander. The iPad was made before retina display. Made before lots of improvements.
It's only human for apple to put all these new improvements in the latest device, but I could be wrong.
That's why I might skip the 2G and wait for the 3gen.
But everyone who is worried about the upgrade being minimum;
the iPhone 4 was a huge jump from the 3gen iPhone.
The ipod touch was, too.
The apple technology is getting grander. The iPad was made before retina display. Made before lots of improvements.
It's only human for apple to put all these new improvements in the latest device, but I could be wrong.
That's why I might skip the 2G and wait for the 3gen.
I won't be selling mine that's for sure, I just got it for Xmas and having tons of fun with it. Maybe I'll upgrade when iPad 4 comes out
Heh that sounds like a good plan. 4 is always the good number! iPod Touch 4, iPhone 4, iPAD 4...............
Good grief who knows what they'll have then? The iSheet? An iPad so thin it rolls up like notebook paper? And it might even have a pencil stylus so you can write notes with it...
I would only upgrade to get more memory, and possibly 3G.
I'm sure the retina display will look amazing though.
I'm sure the retina display will look amazing though.