New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

that's a weirdly shaped penis

Resolution makes it worth an upgrade for me - reading text/websites on the iPad 2 is terrible for me, I can read for much longer stretches on my phone.

cool, where do I plug in the controller

"Siri, go north."

"It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue."

line drawing created on the new ipad. wonder how big that image file is.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/phptkErEpDSC_1300.jpg

I mean in MBs, not in height, it's prolly pretty big unless those guys are liliputians

ok they just announced zing upgrade, crowd is roaring

Lettermpress image files on the iPad 2 are 8000 pixels on the long side iirc

making a big deal about new iphoto

new version of infinity blade, wonder how many GBs this will be

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/phpcwHMmp_thumb_DSC_1305.jpg

Editing 19 megapixel photos on an iPad (with 1GB of memory?) is pretty technically impressive.

quadcore chip

kindle fire burns ipad to oblivion with cheaper pricepoint

that's really not what's happening tho, is it?

ipad 2 now starts at $399

sounds like they are discontinuing 32/64GB ipad 2?

they're still calling this thing "the new ipad"

what is it, or haven't you decided yet

I colleague of mine said recently that that there isn't really a Tablet market there is only an iPad market and every other tablet out there suffers from not being an iPad. It'll change over time but that seems to be the reality right now.

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/03/apple-ipad-3-ipad-hd-liveblog-3127.jpg

no fucking way would Steve Jobs allow this slide

lol

the new ipad, ask for it by name

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/phpdRzAEiipadprices2.jpg

that's it, show's over

RESOLUTIONARY

If it doesn't start changing soon it's going to be like the iPod where the only reason you didn't have an apple mp3 player was because your gran made a mistake at Christmas or you were a nerd refusenik xp

Way it is now, I think windows 8 is the last hope for a non-Apple tablet market. Android is such a total shitshow on tablets.

link still goes to iPad 2 material, store still down

come on little content farm, keep up!

Apple Store iPhone app has hilarious "We'll be back soon." post-it note, too.

Preorder Now -> Http/1.1 Service Unavailable

It's not the iPad 3; it's just "the new iPad"

Like the retro Apple logo at the end

Preorder Now ->

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/title_backsoon1.gif

really feel embarrassed for apple over this "the new iPad" stunt

It really looks like they're just going to keep calling them "iPad" and drop the generational marker. To be fair, MacBook Pros and iMacs and so on don't say "iMac 7" or anything

otm

Apple wants this thing to be as ubiquitous as every other computing device that doesn't get incremental numbers

It's like the Ford Taurus of computing

Some day, they will try to drop the iPad completely, but people will protest so they'll have to rebadge some other product as the iPad so people can buy "new iPads"

The Fire is okay, but it's so much clunkier to use than an iPad. Don't know why no one else can match the Apple user experience or w/e.

yeah but mobile devices generally do get incremental numbers because their form factors and features change so frequently

xps

The Aus site has the 'RESOLUTIONARY' banner, you click it and get 'IPAD 2'

Change between first gen iPad and second: camera, faster processor, magnets in the side for a cover. Between second and third: better camera, higher res screen, faster processor.

These are really incremental, the only big diff is software which tends to be usable on the last generation or two anyway. You really just have devices that get updates and those that don't.

That said, really high res screen is an increment that means a lot for my prefs

I was predicting it'd be sooner, but I still think Apple's probably going to roll out their next wifi based on the draft specification within the next year. I was thinking 3 - 6 months, but there's no indication yet that the new devices have the capability yet

Only disappointment is still separate versions for AT&T and Verizon.... especially given that the iPhone 4S has GSM (AT&T, rest of world) and CDMA (Verizon) chips in the same phone, I was hoping for a all-in-one GSM/CDMA/LTE device where I could choose change carriers if I travel or move to an area where one has better coverage.

No word on iPad carrier availability for outside of US and Canada? And what's with 4G not working in other countries or when roaming?

Change between first gen iPad and second: camera, faster processor, magnets in the side for a cover. Between second and third: better camera, higher res screen, faster processor.

These are really incremental, the only big diff is software which tends to be usable on the last generation or two anyway. You really just have devices that get updates and those that don't.

all true, but those specs are married to the form factor. I can't order an ipad 1 with a faster processor, so I kind of need to know what I'm getting besides "new ipad". there are apps which just don't run very well on the first ipad due to processing speed issues (e.g. RDP apps), even with the latest OS.

Well sure, there are still model numbers to refer to -- it's clumsy but they tend to say "Spring 2010 iMac" or refer to the model number like "1,1" or "5,2" or whatever.

iPhones and iPads have those numbers, too

Plus it's still "the third-generation iPad"

OR IS IT

they're still burning from when they called a product the "iPhone 3G" and then realized they'd doomed their naming scheme forever

next one will be called ipad 4thG 4G 4D with LTE

that's better than iPad Vista

iPad 3 LTE HD

ipad 3D taco unicorn

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