I loled at the comment about comparing a ds to an apple product two completely different products haha.
Well then you laughed for stupid reasons. All handheld electronics work around the same principles, I could compare the iPad to a DS, a PSP, the Vita and despite the fact that they have different target audiences and purposes, they are developed using the same angle - the portable angle.
Ds is a handheld gaimng device Ipad would be more along the lines of a portable media/computer type product I guess?
Your powers of observation do not cease to amaze.
Wouldn't ever compare it to a gaming device that's for sure and the only reason it's acceptable for them to release a new product every year is because everyone else does.
So, if Nintendo and Sony decide to introduce revisions to their hardware each year, will it be acceptable aswell? I mean, everybody will be doing it then. What eludes iFish and you and what I didn't feel like arguing about with him since he wouldn't accept my stance as equally valid no matter what is that this is about a principle, not a product. It could be applied in any industry.
This seems about correct it's been a year since the last one I'm hoping the ipad 3 get's at least one of the major rumored upgrades that it really needs.
It's been a year. There have been no extraordinary technological breakthroughs. There is nothing to upgrade so-far. This is a cosmetical release so that people swap their iPad 2's for a newer model.
To the comments about what good is a tablet for I say alot I use it everyday at college.Take notes on it,write papers on it,basically anything required by my class I can do on their.Then you got your usual media usages like netflix and watching your own videos.AHell I even make photshopped stuff on their.So no tablets aren't a waste it's just a preference of what you would rather have and some people just don't want really high specced stuff that for sure would cost alot .
Here's the thing... iPads cost alot. I could get a far beefier laptop for the price of an iPad, no problemo. Tablets are only attractive because they have touchscreens, they're the middle-ground between laptops and smartphones but until they move onto "big boys and girls OS'es" they're laughable larger versions of the smartphone, that's that.
I personally don't think that yearly releases are all that great and I honestly believe that not only Apple but also Samsung, HTC and the likes should re-consider their strategies. It would be much more beneficial to the end-user to buy a tablet or a phone less often then once a year and the technology is already here, it's just that noone's using it. Let me make this clear, I'm not demonizing Apple alone, I'm demonizing the practice altogether. Apple just stands out in this thread, and due to the fact that they only release one version of their hardware at a time, limiting the end-user's choices. I think there shouldn't be an iPhone 1, 2, 3, 4 and so-on - there should be an iPhone 4 qwerty, iPhone 4 with a gamepad, iPhone 4 mini and so on and so forth, with different features and form-factors, with different specs and prices but running the same software, so that the client actually has a choice, but that's a different point altogether. Back to the main point though, when you release only one version, people will always find something iffy about its internals and people will always jump straight at a revision, hoping that the issue was fixed. I cannot even begin to think how many decomissioned iPhones and, for example, Galaxy S1's already clutter stores, and nobody will ever want them because they became almost immediatelly abselsete when their follow-ups were released. That should not be the case.
