With the lowered price in the refurb store, I feel 'extre screwed'

[Lindsford]

I think apple should offer me some compensation which is (I think) fair. When they have yearly events, we get used to that and we buy expecting a certain schedule. Here's a comparison, you buy a 2012 car in early 2012 for full price and a month later, they come out with 2013 (in early 2012!) with the same price as your 2012 when you bought it. Since they dramatically change the cycle it would piss off anyone. You can't say you wouldn't be mad.

I'm not saying my iPad 3 is so much less useful. I'm saying I could have saved money and in the end, thats what matters to me and many others. I'm not complaining about the decline in my iPad's "newness". Its a bad economy and we all just want everyone to play fair.

You can't be serious?

 

[silverblack]

I am with the OP. Fine, you have to compete with Microsoft's Surface and Android's whatever tablet to be announced later this month. We understand, you want both the mini and full size iPads to stay competitive for the holiday season...

but do you have to sell all your iPad 3 stock TODAY at $379? Not only you are rubbing it in on iPad 3 owners, the $379 price point is just non-sense compared to the 'new' iPad 2 price of $399.

 

[MacManTexas56]

I think apple should offer me some compensation which is (I think) fair. When they have yearly events, we get used to that and we buy expecting a certain schedule. Here's a comparison, you buy a 2012 car in early 2012 for full price and a month later, they come out with 2013 (in early 2012!) with the same price as your 2012 when you bought it. Since they dramatically change the cycle it would piss off anyone. You can't say you wouldn't be mad.

I'm not saying my iPad 3 is so much less useful. I'm saying I could have saved money and in the end, thats what matters to me and many others. I'm not complaining about the decline in my iPad's "newness". Its a bad economy and we all just want everyone to play fair.

If its a bad economy you shouldn't be buying a new car or a new iPad lol.

 

[Medic311]

i bought an iPad 3, 32GB LTE-Verizon new on October 2

now i am debating what to do. i like iOS 5.1.1 with the jailbreak and BTC Mouse, i like cheap cables, i like google maps, i like the youtube iPad app, and my iPad doesn't suffer from defective screens or overheating. it actually doesn't take too much longer to charge than my iPad 2.

what i don't like is the slowness of the A5X compared to how the iPad 2 performed with the A5. games sometimes get choppy, web pages with lots of multimedia don't scroll smoothly, and it will randomly hiccup even when scrolling through apps. i know i would greatly appreciate the performance improvements with the A6X.

being within the 30 days and knowing i would most likely get approval from Customer Service to do an exchange/store credit...i am torn on what i should do. i know an iOS 6 jailbreak will eventually come, as will google maps and a youtube app...but do we know how long that will take? also, i have 30 pin cables at work, in my car, in my briefcase, in my backpack, on my desk, near my bed...the list goes on. to even replace half of the cables that i have in the important places will run me an extra $95. who knows when monoprice will start carrying legit Lightening cables. i'm not worried about future proofing since the Lightening cable won't provide any real benefit to the consumer from an adaptability standpoint for probably another year. by that time, the iPad 5 will come out and will most likely be a radical redesign (of which i would buy).

talk about 1st world problems...lolz

 

[rockyroad55]

Maybe Apple adjusted the release schedule. Be happy now that you may be able to predict future cycles. Chalk it up to technology.