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Re: Apple releases Ipad 3

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Post by shad0wfax »

Wonder how many are willing to upgrade from Ipad 2? I have an Ipad 2, I don't see a need to upgrade.

I am sure the tablet devices will follow a similar cycle as iPhone. Upgrade once in 2 years. I am beginning to wonder, the only aspects that might make me want to upgrade to IPad 4 next year, could be faster processor and more memory, thus making the overall experience better. I am sure Apple will have some exclusive software that will run only on their latest device (ex: Siri), that might force me to upgrade. Given how I use the Ipad right now - Videos, Netflix and eBooks (very limited browsing), I am ok with what I have now.

Will be good to know some statistics on how many upgraded to Ipad 2 from Ipad 1.

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Post by veyron »

beedogs wrote: post #278
batista wrote: post #270

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really? What do you know about the cost of infrastructure and its capacity? Thank you.

I know enough to conclude that it hasn't gotten more expensive to ship bits in the past ten years. Yet, here we are in the US, shifting from unlimited data plans to rate-limited, capped plans, and no one seems to have come up with a convincing explanation as to why that's occurring.

It's simple:

- unlimited data plans were doled out when network operators knew full well that people couldn't actually use enough data to cause a crisis.

- Data usage spiked because people found new uses for phones which demanded more and more data (e.g. streaming shows)

- Operators found themselves underdeveloped with no prospect of demand tapering off

- At these levels, it maximizes the operator's profits to push people into rate-limited plans.

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Post by toadkick »

Fizzer wrote: post #40

Does anyone know if OpenGL's 1024x1024 image size restriction is being raised as well? Seems pretty limiting to not even be able to make an image that's as big as the screen without tiling four of them together.

The max texture size has been 2048x2048 since the 3GS

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Post by bstar77 »

shad0wfax wrote: post #281

Wonder how many are willing to upgrade from Ipad 2? I have an Ipad 2, I don't see a need to upgrade. I am sure the tablet devices will follow a similar cycle as iPhone. Upgrade once in 2 years. I am beginning to wonder, the only aspects that might make me want to upgrade to IPad 4 next year, could be faster processor and more memory, thus making the overall experience better. I am sure Apple will have some exclusive…

Most of us moving up from the iPad2 already sold our iPads.

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Post by shad0wfax »

bstar77 wrote: post #284
shad0wfax wrote: post #281

Wonder how many are willing to upgrade from Ipad 2? I have an Ipad 2, I don't see a need to upgrade. I am sure the tablet devices will follow a similar cycle as iPhone. Upgrade once in 2 years. I am beginning to wonder, the only aspects that might make me want to upgrade to IPad 4 next year, could be faster processor and more memory, thus making the overall experience better. I am sure Apple will have some exclusive…

Most of us moving up from the iPad2 already sold our iPads.

Agree, that is an option to make it easier to decide to upgrade. The question is are you (and the others who sold their iPad2) gadget freaks that lust for new stuff, or do you really see a value in the upgrade.

What I am trying to figure out is, what keeps you(/me) wanting to upgrade to new tablets frequently, where as we are perfectly ok, running our 3+ year old Mac. Maybe the price point makes it more affordable to upgrade frequently.

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Post by mikemoka »

Everyone is speaking about bandwidth speed, but what about the first major product launch of the post-Steve era? What was your impression about it? A little bit of something clearly wasn't there if you ask me

Re: Apple releases Ipad 3

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Post by mikemoka »

Everyone is speaking about bandwidth speed, but what about the first major product launch of the post-Steve era? What was your impression about it? A little bit of something clearly wasn't there if you ask me

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Post by dedward »

Gabler wrote: post #138
samstave wrote: post #70

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This is exactly what happened to me after I bought a MyTouch 4G which allowed wifi hotspotting for my laptop. While I was not charged overage fees, my data rate was crippled to 57Kbps. The thing sits in the drawer and I NEVER use it because its useless. I am paying $100 a month for it. They want $400!!! to cancel it. Fuck these carriers.

When I see people complaining about being capped at 50kb/s speeds it makes me sad to live in New Zealand where our capped speeds are about 15kb/s at best.

im always amazed that the developing nation i live in (we used to call it third world....) has no hidden caps or nonsenseontheir mobile, or non-mobileinternet plans, you get exactlywhat you pay for,spelled out clearly, andits steongly enforced by thecourts.

and no, there is no censorship or anything either. i dont have quite the same speeds as theus does, buti get ehat ipay for, andits cheap.

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Post by marze »

In the presentation, Cook refers to the "new iPad" with no "3". Inside Apple, they probably have viewed what we call the iPad 1 and iPad 2 as the prequel 1 and prequel 2 to the actual iPad, which is only now finished.

Re: Apple releases Ipad 3

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Post by rbarooah »

sneak wrote: post #279
cletus wrote: post #276

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I'm disappointed the "top" comment on this announcement is nothing more than a sideways swipe at an unrelated topic from someone who clearly has an axe to grind. In Australia, the ACCC banned the use of the word "unlimited" (with respect to Internet access, wireless or fixed-line) unless it truly was unlimited. No shaping, hard or soft quotas, excess usage charges and vague "fair use" provisions. The result? You get…

"why not iPad 3? Seriously!" The video shown at the end of the announcement event has an Apple employee referring to it as "the third-generation iPad". This seems very strange to me, considering how on-message Apple has ALWAYS been in the past. It's just... sloppy. I wonder if Apple has a future beyond its current momentum. I'll be convinced otherwise ifwhen they release another world-changing product that wasn't inv…

What exact is sloppy? Third generation is one of their terms for it.
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