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Re: Apple releases Ipad 3

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Post by hef19898 »

megablast wrote: post #195
philwelch wrote: post #178

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Apple can commit to shipping millions of iPads and makes procurement decisions based on that fact. You're talking about the company that buys a significant proportion of the world's NAND flash production preordered a year ahead of time. iPad has enough economy of scale that as soon as Apple found a display manufacturer able and willing to manufacture the screen they wanted, they immediately promised a large enough pr…

Not anymore, they seem to be selling the new iPads and the old iPads, which will mean two display sizes. Still, your point holds. The other issue is that Apple has enough money to invest in factories, not that it owns them, but it can put money up front to encourage building them. I would not be surprised if they had a 1 year hold on screens of this size, just as they did for the iphone 4 (although even today noone i…

Yet, Im really interessted how Apple actually deals with its suppliers. My guess is that they are not really, well how should I put it, nice? to deal with. Judging from their enourmous growth AND their steady growing profits, Apple prouved an impressive upward flexibility. To manage that you have to be a pain the ass for your suppliers, yet you have to fair. Pretty cool how they walk that razors edge. Guess Apple dominace is a major for the competition in more than one way.

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Post by Gabler »

sliverstorm wrote: post #253
Gabler wrote: post #138

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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.

Is this phone network caps, or landline cable/DSL caps?

Home network. It may differ in larger towns like Auckland or Wellington but the city I live in is hardly small either.

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Post by function_seven »

schiffern wrote: post #173
jiggy2011 wrote: post #141

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I'm not sure , sticking numbers after something is a fairly universal thing. Movies, video games and most software has been doing this for a while.

The farther away from this Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch nonsense, the happier I'll be. I think the reason people misattribute Apple's success to marketing is because everyone else's marketing is just godawful. And no, I didn't make that name up.

Ha! I used the same example in an earlier thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3631578

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Post by speleding »

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…

Apple uses the same terminology with MacBooks and iPods. "Sixth generation iPod" etc. Apple is known to focus on details, so they probably thought this through and have a good reason to back away from the numerals.

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Post by rbarooah »

icki wrote: post #25

I'm excited that they're addressing user complaints about 'content creation'. iPhoto looks particularly impressive; it looks like people will be using their tablet devices for more than just content consumption now.

What user complaints? The only people saying that the iPad can't be used for content creation are blogosphere commentators arguing that it can't replace a laptop yet.

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Post by demallien »

mikemoka wrote: post #286

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

I don't know. It was better than the last announcement, the day before Steve died. But then, I suspect that none of them were at their best that day. At any rate Tim seemed much more relaxed this time round. There were moments where he really did seem to be enjoying himself - the big thumbs up after the Siri Japan demonstration springs to mind, but there were a couple of other moments too.

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Post by msh »

Aloisius wrote: post #10

It should be noted that the limited data plans for both AT&T and Verizon mean that at the max 4G speed of 73 Mbps, you could use all your bandwidth for the entire month in less than three and a half minutes (2 GB plan). The overages of $10/GB per month on both services mean once you go over your plan, you'll be looking at a little over $5/minute in new charges. It is possible (though highly unlikely) to rack up over…

Well I have no problem with them having a 2GB plan for people with only a smaller need to surf and check email but want good speed.

They do lack a plan with a decent cap, I can live without unlimited but the cap should be decent.

On my non-us LTE plan they reserve the right to throttle it if I use more than 30 GB a month. I think thats a decent cap (the price is approx. 52 USD a month including 25% VAT, cheaper plans with less data is available).

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Post by unicron »

scrame wrote: post #186

Hooray! Another iteration of an expensive toy for tech managers trying to justify their jobs and people who think that money buys taste!

Your post is the only sensible and realistic one in this entire thread. I congratulate you!

I shall now park myself behind my ThinkPad with a real keyboard and get some work done rather than watching people masturbate over an expensive toy.

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