iPad 3 in September - a date to rue or remember?
By Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Thursday, 24 March 2011 11:49
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With the iPad 2 only hours away from international launch in much of the world, the anti-iPad crowd has revved up with talk of the iPad 3, but is a 2011 release date really realistic?
Matrix
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Alex, thanks for your reply. Perhaps the NFC technology will be harnessed by Apple to allow users to easily make mobile…
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iPad 3 in September sounds like hype without foundation to me. I think in September we may see a tablet…
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I actually predicted this a month ago when i heard about the iPad 2. this is what they did for the iPhone. 1st gen comes…
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If you want to give the Apple iPad 2 a miss tomorrow, or miss out on buying one tomorrow because of the expected launch day/weekend rush and frenzy to get one, some are advising you might be able to pick up an iPad 3 in Septemer.
That rumour comes from John Gruber’s Daring Fireball, and was merely a guess rather than any inside knowledge, yet the quote has taken on a life of its own, with fantastically speculative articles seeming suggesting Apple is going to shaft iPad 2 buyers in 6 months, rather than the usual 12.
Of course, no-one ever complains when a new car model comes out every year, or when all kinds of things are updated on a regular, yearly or so basis, but does anyone truly expect Apple to get an iPad 3 out the door while working so hard to ramp iPad 2 shipments through the roof?
With the stunning lead Apple has in iPad apps, a lead that some expect Android developers to start attacking very quickly, Apple’s ecosystem is set up to reward developers and third-party accessory makers richly if they produce excellent products, while reaping Android riches beyond a trickle of advertising revenue is still a much bigger battle than with iOS.
Apple’s lead in technology is also strong, despite Samsung releasing a new Galaxy Tab 10.1 that is .2mm thinner than the 8.8mm iPad 2, but given that’s the same kind of strategy that saw iPod makers shove voice recorders and FM radios into iPod clones fail to crush the iPod’s lead, one can only wonder if the same will happen in the world of the Android iPad iClones.
Naturally, the usual laundry list of updates for any iPad 3 has been trotted out in an attempt to get you to forego your desires to buy an iPad 2, and subject yourself to agonisingly long waits for an iPad 3 that will also be likely very popular at launch and even harder to get than an iPad 2 will be.
Other features on the laundry list of features Apple will undoubtedly “make a song and dance about” also include a better LCD screen with retina-display style resolution, better graphics, an A6 dual or quad core processor, even more RAM, better quality front and rear cameras, even longer battery life, and a built-in Thunderbolt Port to augment the standard iPod/iPhone/iPad dock port.
What else is expected within the iPad 3, and how realistic is that supposed 2011 date, or is 2012 the real next-gen deal?