Why the new iPad is so huge for Apple
March 8, 2012 | Source: ReadWriteWeb
The new iPad (credit: Apple)
Today’s new iPad introduction was Apple’s most important event of the year.
I iPad is the future of Apple and potentially the future of the personal computer.
Today’s new iPad continued two important trends for Apple:
The iPad maintained its lead as the best tablet on the market in terms of hardware, software, and ecosystem, the retina display — unmatched by the competition — and the Apple TV accessory.
Apple also continues its price-to-value leadership. By shaving $100 off the cheapest iPad’s price, Apple has significantly expanded the iPad’s addressable market. Apple CEO Tim Cook showed Apple’s December quarter iPad shipments against the shipments from the world’s biggest PC makers. The iPad — not even two years old at the time — won.
Comments (14)
by James Lindelien
How much was Kurzweil paid by Apple to publish this promotional piece? Can we please get back to objective reporting? Tablets have a mass market and are ideal for particular application areas and user communities, but they will never, for example, replace my multi-monitor engineering workstation because I’d suffer a tremendous loss in productivity.
by Editor
James: Ray Kurzweil does not write our news items. And no, I was not paid by Apple. I agree that the iPad is not intended to replace engineering workstations — yet. :)
by e
this was a garbage article
by Cybernettr
You guys ALL sound like a bunch of fanboys. Android this, Toshiba that, rather than addressing the real issue: whether a tablet–any tablet–is really the be all and end all of what technology is truly capable of.
by Daniel
Fanboy writer detected.
by nfordkrz
How great iPad is depends on what you need. I’ve had a 10.1″ Toshiba Thrive since last summer. Significant features it has which iPad doesn’t include
1. Swap out batteries (never run out of power vs iPad’s 10 hours).
2. Full-size HDMI port
3. Full-size (and mini) USB port
4. Full-size SD card slot.
It also has a 5MP camera which the iPad is only now catching up with. Meanwhile, newer Android tablets have much higher res cameras.
I’ve also had a 7″ Archos 70-250G for over a year. I got it as a media player. It has an internal 250GB hard drive which holds all my music files plus tons of movies and videos. It fits in my back pocket so that I can listed to music on the go. It has a 16:9 screen for watching movies.
I wouldn’t trade either of these for an iPad.
by Tatiana
I don’t really know what to be unsatisfied about. The new iPad is even more different from the 2nd than the 2nd was from the first. It is still not best tool for true proffesional work but can be used to do many(and more as the time passes) activities. And as Apple said, in 2012 there are going to be more innovations like this one, so we should just wait.
by Dave McNally
Preordered! Double the resolution, HD camera and camcorder, dictation, faster processor, 1GB of RAM. 4G LTE. Wow. Can’t wait for delivery next week!
by Apple Sucks
But it still can’t do flash… Still can’t store data like a flash drive… Still needs to “sync”… Still can’t do HDMI out… And still can’t be customized (much)…
by Yawn
Wow, really? Incremental, boring changes are huge for Apple? Only if you’re a fanboy.
by JMParis
Yes, just like the boring changes that came with the iPhone 4S.
by MyKindOfTown
“iPad is the future of Apple and potentially the future of the personal computer.”
Really? So you can do jobs on the iPad that require having (for example) three monitors, and an 8-core processor like programming, video editing and financial markets trading … you know, things that involve creating something, not just consuming media content?
by Denny
You and I need 8-core multi-screen workstations, but the other 90% can joyfully use a 4-core, lightweight, hi-res, untethered tablet with 70Mbs connectivity that can be “thrown” onto a large screen or projector wirelessly with a flick of the wrist…
by he who is
Maybe so, but the majority usually consists of the ignorant and the complacent. Moreover, tablets are held down by reliance on data plan based cellular networks with spotty coverage, or WiFi that is often insecure and censored.
Plus, many Android tablets completely dominate the iPad in specs other than resolution (and even there, 1920 x 1080 or 1920 x 1200 is more than enough). The new iPad is in fact a *dual-core* CPU, while the Transformer Prime and its upcoming successor Transformer Pad Infinity both have quad-core Tegra 3. Apple’s claim that A5X is 4x faster than the Tegra 3 is debatable. Tablets also have cameras with 8 or even 12 MP, compared to the iPad’s 5. The iPad also lacks true USB and an SD slot, so it’s of limited use for peripherals and storage of any kind.