iPad thread!

[Neon Ignition]

It's the catch 22 of Apples position. Unlike other companies they benefit from from having a very streamlined line up. The clarity of the hardware lines means it feels like they release new updates too often but the flip side is they dont' have several models at the same time. The catch with such a streamlined line up is your eggs are all in one basket. When consumers tire of Apple's aesthetic and line up they will fall and they will fall hard. It's a long way off most likely but the smart phone market shows some early signs with their market share slowly eroding

[randombs]

Late to the tablet party but just got an iPad 2 last night. Didn't spend long with it but tried GarageBand and some piano-y stuff.

Very nice it is, too. Best thing is I only bought it for TouchOSC and reading sheet music PDFs so as long as it does those, I can't complain

[randombs]

iPad 2(and iPhone 4S) jailbreak is out, it's called Absinthe. Doing it now...

[QualityChimp]

Hi, can anybody help with this predicament.

I'm setting up an iPad for somebody and they have work email and Hotmail set up on it.

you can flick between the different accounts once you've clicked on the mail icon, but is there a way to separate the icons on the desktop so you can see how many unread emails are in each account at a glance and also go straight into each one?

Cheers!

[JSR]

Don't think so, no. Maybe a third-party e-mail app?

[QualityChimp]

Apparently it's not possible, but thanks anyway, Alex

[Dogg Thang]

So Apple's next event is the 7th of March and the new iPad is expected. All rumours say a hi-res screen and better camera but that's about all I have heard. There are rumours floating around of a smaller version though.

I'm thinking of selling my iPad 2 to buy the next version. I think they hold value pretty well, although I have the higher end as it's a 64GB 3G one. But am I right in thinking that if I wait until after the event, the value of my iPad will plummet? I'm wondering should I try to sell it now? Or should I wait? Opinions welcome.

[CMcK]

Even once the new iPad is released you'll still get a very healthy return on your one model. Demand is still very high and plenty of people still buy iPhone 3GS handsets despite it having been superseded twice.

If the new iPad does have the rumoured high resolution screen and magazine apps take advantage of it I'll being buying one and selling my iPad 2 to help fund it.

[Dogg Thang]

Even once the new iPad is released you'll still get a very healthy return on your one model.

That's good to hear. So you're pretty much planning the same as I am. Part of me was tempted to go for it now and sell it before the announcement but if it will hold its value (even with slight reduction), I'll hang on to it because I use it all the time, every single day. In fact, it's odd - I had so much initial skepticism about the iPad, but no device has been integrated into my life as much as it has.

['Press Start']

I heard it will be a double whammy of iPad this year, with 4 being released before Christmas.

[wakka]

Not sure if that's a joke or not lol. Rumours swirled endlessly after the iPad 2 announcement last year that a 'retina display' model would be forthcoming in September, it making perfect sense that Apple would start releasing a new iPad every 6 months when they practically own the market as it is.

On the invite to the March 7th event, the iPad is in portrait but there is no home button how will we activate Siri on our iPad 3s?!

[Dogg Thang]

Are you sure it's in portrait in the pic?

[Wil]

If the 3 is a retina display I wonder how that will affect the mags and comics I read on the 2 now? I'm working on a 150ppi res for the comic I'm doing at the mo which works out at around 350k a page. Will I have to res up for a new display?

[wakka]

Are you sure it's in portrait in the pic?

Pretty certain. The icons are too close together to be the landscape dock, and the cluster of six bubbles on the wallpaper between Calendar and Keynote aren't visible in landscape mode I don't think.

If it was portrait but upside down (as if Apple would ever portray their products upside down anyway, haha) you'd be able to see the front-facing camera.

If the 3 is a retina display I wonder how that will affect the mags and comics I read on the 2 now? I'm working on a 150ppi res for the comic I'm doing at the mo which works out at around 350k a page. Will I have to res up for a new display?

They'll look worse, I guess. It'll be like when the iPhone 4 first launched, and everything except the built in software looked like crap for a few months till devs updated everything for the higher resolution screen.

[randombs]

I bought my iPad 2 about a month ago as I didn't feel like waiting and I had the necessary CeX vouchers at the time. Besides, CeX will sell the iPad 3 at a fair bit above RRP for ages(16GB wifi iPad 2 dropped to ?390 there only recently despite having been out since last March).

Interested in this smaller iPad(not to buy, just interested) - removing the home button would set things up perfectly as they could make the screen border so much smaller(alternatively they could do an iPhone and have a larger border at the bottom to house the home button but not the top and sides).

I'm holding out because I expect all the processing power it'll bring will be purely to keep it running as smoothly as the iPad 2 at whatever resolution it'll be using. Seeing as I've just been using mine for music apps and sketching, not reading, I'm not too fussed about the retina display(I do have a 4S and it looks lovely) so am glad I didn't wait, even though the iPad 3 will likely arrive this month. I'm sure they'll pull some kind of magical rabbit out their arse but something tells me it's really just the improved display this time around, so I'm not expecting another iPad->iPad2 performance leap.

@ Dogg Thang: I was watching iPad prices when the iPad 2 hit and I doubt you'll lose much if you wait. Even better, there are these rumours that the base iPad 3 price won't be ?399 like the two before it, maybe closer to ?450. If that's the case, then yours will hold even more value as the equivalent-capacity iPad 3s will be more expensive anyway.