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Analyst thinks Apple will release an Ipad 2 in April
ANALYST Brian Marshall of Gleacher has been reading Digitimes and has come to the conclusion that Apple will release an Ipad 2 in April.
Digitimes, which has a pretty hit and miss record with Apple predictions, broke a story quoting its usual "industry sources".
However Marshall seems to think it is pretty likely that Apple is working on an Ipad 2 and that will follow the release of a CDMA Iphone in March.
He told Computerworld that Apple will stick to the same annual release pattern it uses for the Iphone and Ipod and, since he thinks that Jobs' Mob will release a CDMA Iphone in March, the Ipad must follow soon after.
The rumor of a April launch date can be sourced to the Taiwanese website Digitimes. It claimed that Apple has commissioned several companies to manufacture high density interconnect boards for the Ipad 2 in early February.
Why Marshall is taking it seriously is that the date makes sense and he has noticed dramatic price cuts from certain retailers on the original Ipad.
While they could be cutting their prices to flog the Ipads before Christmas, he thinks the reason is that no one will touch them with a barge pole once the Ipad 2 is out.
The Ipad 2 will have almost every feature that people said should be on the first Ipad but which Apple refused to provide. These include the ability to run on various carriers, two cameras located on either side of the tablet and a switch from Apple's proprietary connection to mini-USB. Of course it will not have Flash so it will not be able to use half of the Internet, but Apple fanbois are used to being told what to do.
However it will mean that everyone who bought the first Ipad will have to junk it and buy a new keyboardless netbook for twice the price. But that is the price of living in Apple's walled garden. µ
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An Ipad is a handy gadget in a sitting room. If I ever feel like searching my TV guide I just click the ipad and it's instantly on, like a mobile phone.
I begrudgingly admit it's quite useful. The screen size should not be any smaller, perhaps 1 or 2 inches larger would be ideal.
It's slim, only as thick as a magazine.
The batter life last days of occasional use, like a mobile phone.
It will use my wifi when it can, or when out of range of my wifi it will auto-switch to 3G. No nonsense, just auto-switch, and it will switch back to 3g when I get back in range again.
It's not perfect, but I can see this size and form factor becoming "the norm". It lacks USB, but you can connect it to a normal pc using an apple-usb lead. Lacks a storage card slot, iirc, so it cannot be used as a photo-displayer.
It's easily portable, can be used as an E-Reader, a magazine, newspaper, etc.
If someone asks a question it's so easy to just click the ipad on (and it is instantly on, no waiting at all) and type the question into google.
A good first effort, I can't wait to see what MS and Google will launch this Xmas to compete.
are even more stupid and unthinking than they think Apple fans are.
EVERY SINGLE SYSTEM IN EXISTANCE IS A COMPROMISE. Users must look at the compromises that have been made and decide how well it fits their personal needs. Is 95% of the web enough? Is that missing 5% offset by other qualities? Flash it's self is far from perfect (it's a CPU and power hog, it's buggy and is a known vector for hack attacks), do you need it enough to put up with these limitations? (if so then go look at Android devices and see what trade-offs they are applying). On top of everything DON'T EXPECT EVERYONE ELSE TO HAVE THE SAME PRIORITIES AS YOU.
Apple makes pretty sweet hardware and a nice, usable OS. Having said that, all of the fanbois are morons for sticking up for Jobs no matter what he does. So you're arguing that it's only five percent of the net, that is negatively affected by the inability to run flash. Until this number is 0, you, too, are a moron for defending this practice, instead of hoping to have it remedied. Would you accept your internet connection to be down five percent of the time? The tv signal? Or your wife being faithful 95 percent of the time. Maybe you would - but you're also only 95 percent straight. Boom! Say hi to your sugar daddy, Jobs.
Lol more morons will waste the cash on yet another piece of pointless junk, you guys may as well go straight around Steve Jobbs house and put your tongues right down the back of trousers, lol muppets.
As most of that "half the internet" is the adverts on non-flash based sites it's not that big a loss. Video sites are shifting to providing HTML5 support (I see that Vimeo now works with iOS for example) so it's less than 5% and falling that has any negative impact.
BTW the current version supports multiple carriers very nicely. The next version is rumored to support CDMA as well as GSM/UMTS, which is something different.