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Apple Suppliers Gearing Up to Produce New iPads, Larger Model to Feature Anti-Reflective Coating
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They should focus on the screen from now on. There's a lot more to be improved there. Anti glare, no more space between the glass and the screen and make it much better for touch devices like pens. And maybe some sort of e-ink mode for outside reading (which is still a pain I think)
If they nail that... the iPad could be perfect.
If they nail that... the iPad could be perfect.
Exactly becausr of that. This is 2014 and people are moving beyond the pencil and legal pad era of the 1990's.
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Every time I use Safari.
i have a Bamboo pen but its not precise enough and i have to write reaaally big to get the letters right and it takes me forever. it just seems unnatural
fingers fine for navigating and tapping but horrible to write. finger tip is to fat and nothing against a thin pen
Starting to think split-screen multitasking will be only on the new iPads, in a similar move to only putting Siri on the iPhone 4S.
Because its very very hard to make millions of cutting edge products and get them where they need to be without delaying the launch by months. Anyone who thinks its some great conspiracy from apple is simply deluded.
Time to let go of my iPad 3
The new iPad. Yes, I am actually looking forward to trading in my iPad (the new, aka, 3) for the iPad Air 2. Right now I am more excited about this than the iPhone 6. Other than it being too big for my hand, I haven't heard of any new feature worth me trading in my 5s.
But it is entirely possible that on 9/9, I will get whipped into a frenzie and immediately go and camp out in front of an apple store. We shall see...
The biggest myth ever. Why would a company not want to sell as many units as quickly as possible? Demand won't change whether you have 100,000 or a million, the people who want one will want one, regardless of how many or how few are available. And if you don't want one, you still won't care how many or few are available. No one says "well, I wouldn't normally want one, but since there are so few available, I must have one now". Its a ridiculous conspiracy theory. "Demand" doesn't impress investors, sales numbers do. And you can't sell what you don't have.
But, in today's word, a conspiracy must lurk behind everything.
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Don't anti-reflective coatings have the bad tendency to rub off after time?
May I suggest:
- You're holding it wrong
- Mine works perfect, you're doing something wrong
I would like a blanket ban on any rumour" that mentions "a delay in manufacturing due to XYZ".
Most news out of financial websites will include something along these lines to drive traffic to their articles, especially with apple. Apple is one of the most followed tech stocks so anything that might hurt its quarter is given exaggerated attention. Just look at the "story" that macrumors "broke" two weeks ago saying some store manager tipped them off to apple pushing back the iPhone 6 date to october. That would imply that Tim Cook and company lied on their conference call earlier that week about their numbers. No one did due diligence on that "rumor" or even bothered to apply common sense. Now all of a sudden the apple launch date is back in september. Even here they don't bother to correct their stories when they go against common sense or defy reality.
The best part of these little side comments is that they usually say "MAY delay manufacturing" which usually means that the author just through it in without any information to back it up. It is also hard to say that a product is delayed when it hasn't even been announced and be taken seriously...manufacturing delays may impact Ford's new Hover Car into 2015 due to technology not being invented yet sort of thing.
I'm no fan of anti-glare coatings. I like my glossy screens. Seems like the colors are so much more vibrant. I just deal with my environment to reduce glare and reflections.
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Some people are here to drive the culture of this site. Without it, this place would be pretty grey, vanilla, bland etc.
Missed list addition:
Slow news day.
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Some people are here to drive the culture of this site. Without it, this place would be pretty grey, vanilla, bland etc.
Missed list addition:
Slow news day.
I guess. Which is a bit dim, as aren't you MORE likely to carry a smaller portable outside with you?
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These (first five esp.) are so incredibly irritating. In what universe is being the 42,763rd person to say "Steve/Innovate/-gate" etc amusing? Especially when you yourself have done it not once, but about forty freaking times. Sigh.
I'm curious what Apple has up its sleeve for next year's iPad, other than a better processor and improved camera. The iPad needs to move in a new direction, with the ability to do more tasks like a laptop.
Yes I agree. I was hoping they would have a matte antiglare screen like they used on their mbp line.
