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Re: IPad 2 Official Specs

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Post by bjelkeman-again »

potatolicious wrote: post #71
10char wrote: post #8

HDMI video mirroring is going to be big. My sister-in-law is a high school teacher and has been wishing she could hook her iPad up to the projector since the day she got it. Think of all the possibilities...makes so much more sense for a school to spend $500 on an ultralight, ultraportable iPad than spend more on bulky desktops you have to cart around just to play a video or show a web article (citation: my old high…

Here's hoping the same support comes to the iPhone 5. As an app developer one persistently annoying thing is my inability to demo an app to an audience in anything but the Simulator. I've been working on apps related to camera functionality, and the inability to show these apps on a projector is shitty. If I can mirror the display I'd be exceedingly happy.

Until then you could demo your apps on an iPad2.

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Post by r00fus »

illumin8 wrote: post #86
joneath wrote: post #62

FYI: If you are thinking about trading up from the iPad 1, gazelle.com is offering $320 for the 16GB WiFi version. This price won't stay for long since the iPad 1 16GB WiFi is going for $399 on apple.com. Also you can use the code "TWiT" for 10% more.

They must have fixed this pretty quickly because my 16GB iPad wifi in perfect condition with all cables only got an offer of $283.

I'm getting $300 for same.

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Post by 6ren »

predictions:

  - iPhone 5G will use this dual-core A5 chip
  - there'll be a smaller, low-cost iPhone model (nano iPhone?)
  - the next nano will play video (maybe combined with the above?)
  - iPad 3G will play 1080p, and have 1GB RAM
These devices have enough power for a full OS. But I predict Apple will hold off combining them (OSX on iPad; A5 in laptop/desktop) for as long as possible: 1. it doesn't help the customers of the iPad; 2. it would segment the developer market, who can use the extra power anyway. However, it's inevitable as processors get faster; and they can't hold off for ever because if they don't do it, someone else will. It's just a question of when.

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Post by WesleyJohnson »

joneath wrote: post #62

FYI: If you are thinking about trading up from the iPad 1, gazelle.com is offering $320 for the 16GB WiFi version. This price won't stay for long since the iPad 1 16GB WiFi is going for $399 on apple.com. Also you can use the code "TWiT" for 10% more.

I don't have any personal experience with it (yet), but eBay's new "Instant Sale" appears to be offering upto $370 for a mint 16GB WiFi version with all the original bits.

http://green.ebay.com/instantsale/

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Post by sghael »

cheald wrote: post #94
solutionyogi wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you are over simplying. Look at http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/ for the nuances involved.

I'm really not. max-age and the Expires header, properly set, will control caching at just about every possible step. If you refresh apple.com several times, you'll notice the max-age cycles down with each refresh, and the Expires header stays the same. They're obviously set up to cause the page to have a short maximum lifetime in both public and private caches, and in the case of a launch, it's not that hard to make…

But that only solves for the case of predictable events. If you want to remain agile, and do deployments on an as-needed basis, then you need to cache bust with file naming or query parameters as I mention in other msg. Again, I'm pretty sure this is the preferred method of most web teams, and also appears to be what Apple is doing (atleast with a subset of their assets).

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Post by throwaway5317 »

hop wrote: post #23

Love how Apple up-sells storage in hundred dollar increments. I just bought a 32GB SD card (class 10) for my camera for $50 and I'm not buying millions of them at a time.

Or, with the actual pricing compared to the competition, think of it this way:

The price model is competitive enough for the price to sink in hundred dollar decrements, although a 32GB flash memory chip is only $50. Maybe that's something you only can do if you expect to sell millions of them?

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Post by bmj »

bphogan wrote: post #109
Someone wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would prefer to have a card slot I am not sure whether I would want one. Having one would introduce a lot of opportunities, but also would remove lots of ease of use. Install an app => user must select where to install it. User interface-wise, what would happen to the home screen if I take out a card with some applications on it? What if I plug in another card? What if that card contains an application that already…

I have a palm pilot that used an SD slot and I thought they handled that very well. When you installed an app it installed to main memory. You could move it to the SD if you wanted to. And when you ejected the sd, the icons for the apps that were on the SD card on the home screen disappeared. They came back when you put the card back in. I'm not saying I want that back, but I am saying that I thought it was a pretty…

Windows Mobile 6.x behaves in the same way.

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Post by mkramlich »

tptacek wrote: post #119
hop wrote: post #23

Love how Apple up-sells storage in hundred dollar increments. I just bought a 32GB SD card (class 10) for my camera for $50 and I'm not buying millions of them at a time.

Warning: predrantry follows. If you want to participate in a market where things are priced according to what they cost the vendor, look into gypsum. In tech companies, cost-based pricing is good mostly for getting you fired from your Product Manager role. Tech products are priced according to the market. For many products, Apple competes aggressively on price. What that means is that within the product line , Apple…

> Warning: pedranty follows.

That is making my inner pedant twitch uncontrollably. :)

(successfully resisted. back to vi.)

Re: IPad 2 Official Specs

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Post by FiddlerClamp »

jmcnevin wrote: post #36

They must have had some room to spare in that case to bother putting in a rear camera. Look at the screenshot of the camera app: http://www.apple.com/ipad/built-in-apps/camera.html Notice the placement of the "record" button. Now imagine holding the device up to take a picture with two hands. Even assuming another app developer will come along and fix this, who's going to use a tablet as a giant, awkward digital came…

Augmented reality apps.

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Post by dedward »

smackfu wrote: post #66
hop wrote: post #23

Love how Apple up-sells storage in hundred dollar increments. I just bought a 32GB SD card (class 10) for my camera for $50 and I'm not buying millions of them at a time.

Not to mention $130 for a 3G chip and antenna. But that is the Apple way. The only good deal is the lowest end model.

That's called good marketing and customer satisfaction.
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