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iPad 2 Rumored to be in Production
Stoobalou writes "The normally sober and sometimes accurate Wall Street Journal is claiming that Apple's iPad 2 is currently in production. Foxconn might be producing a limited number of prototype samples of the Second Coming of the iPad but we're pretty sure full production won't start until Steve Jobs (or whoever will be donning the black turtleneck in his sickly stead) strides onto the stage at the official launch keynote."
This post is rumored to be the 1st post! It's in production now!
A company well known for releasing new models of its products will release a new model of one of its newest products! Gasp!
Also, will it have video-out capability yet? Or possibly video-in so I can use it to pretend I have a portable DVD player?
Actually the iPhone models were:
So, Apple has been all over the place with its naming "conventions".
Galileo: "The Earth revolves around the Sun!"
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It is very unlikely that Apple would do anything to make it easy to put a DVD on the iPad. They want you to obtain content like that through the iTunes store. Anything they can do to help kill physical media is good for Apple.
WSJ gets leaked info directly from Apple. Given the quotes in the video, it seems like they're trying to lower people's expectations. One (maybe, but not for-sure, two) cameras, same resolution, higher specs otherwise. Everybody expects higher specs, but also dual cameras, higher-DPI display, and for it to fart unicorns and be made of unobtanium mined from Pandora.
Me? Gimme facetime so the little one can call her grandparents. That alone will sell an amazing amount. But I'd really like higher-DPI. And possibly a 7".
The normally sober and sometimes accurate Wall Street Journal
Must not read the editorial page much.
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It's continuously relevant.
Given that Foxconn has produced over 1 million iPads a month, I don't see why production wouldn't ramp up a few weeks before an announcement. Staff need to be trained and assembly line glitches need to be resolved before they can deliver flat out. That said, I ordered an Apple TV last November that shipped directly from Shenzhen after a short delay-- it seems that they're not even bothering to warehouse inventory in North America anymore because there is no cost saving when everything has to be air freighted anyway.
Or the Apple II or Apple III.
Seriously though, Apple's greatest achievement is how they have managed to wrap the public and the tech media around their little finger. The dust hasn't even quite settled from the first iPad launch and I am already seeing articles plastered all over the place about the 'rumors' of the iPad 2.
Granted it came out before the iTunes store, but Apple was the company behind Rip. Mix. Burn. which greatly pissed off all the record companies.
God, it would be so nice if some company would just go ahead and make one to buy!
I wonder if one could find a stylus on Amazon?
I wish people would stop calling it the iPad 2. Does Apple make a MacBook 2? An iMac 2? iPod touch 2? No, Apple generally doesn't number its products. It will probably be known as the 2011 iPad or informally as the iPad 2G (if you follow the iPod touch examples).
Hmm, you realize they call the iPod Touch line "iPod Touch (Xth Generation)" with the X replaced by the version number?
Sure they don't put it in THEIR website, but every website and every keynote and every communication calls it Xth Generation. I hope they do give it a descriptive name, I recall one ALMOST accidentally buying a 2nd Gen iPod Touch because it was listed as the cheapest option among the 3rd Gen in their store. I luckily noticed the extremely weaker specs before I went for it.
I sort of wish they changed the numbering, though, for iPhones too, and started calling them with years. iPhone '11, iPod '11, iPad '11, etc. Would be much easier to tie up hardware specs across the lines (and they tend to be almost the same.)
On that note, I am going to predict the future:
Soon Apple will announce the iPad 2nd Gen, and announce it's specs. They will likely lower the price of the cheapest 1st Gen iPads and sell them as budget units (and humiliating Motorola's Xoom with it's $799 price tag.)
This summer Apple will release the iPhone 5, and announce very similar specs to those in the iPad 2nd Gen.
This October Apple will release the iPod Touch 5th Generation, it will be an iPhone 5 without cell coverage, earpiece and perhaps not camera flash either.
I hate to be yet another voice claiming great iPad battery life against your direct experience, but. . . seriously, did you have a defective unit or something? In my experience a few hours of reading won't even drop my battery gauge by more than a few percent. Hell a few hours of video isn't even a problem.
The only problem I ever have with battery life is when I want to completely drain it, as they say one should occasionally do. I think the damn thing harvests power from ambient radio waves.
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You can do HD video out via AirPlay. There are open AirPlay servers for any computer, or you can use an AppleTV.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
until that purchased contents DRM system is deprecated and you're left with a bunch of useless files you can no longer play.
Actually, the Apple DRM'ed files would continue to play as long as your devices held out.
Another poster replied with a good point - physical DVD's can be destroyed. If you accidentally deleted your Apple media, one good point in their favor is you can simply re-download the files because Apple knows what you have. And not all Apple media is DRm - audio files are not. It's only Video that has that annoying encumbrance.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Apple will continue to put a new one of these out every 6 months, and tell you that you absolutely must have it. And somehow they make money, humans are so gullible.
What do I know, I'm just an idiot, right?
This is not news for most of us here.
The iPad is a success.
Really, it's not even a tiny leap to think they will make another iPad.
You know what else is in the works? a new iPhone.
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A few hours battery life reading? What kind of reading were you doing? I borrowed an iPad for a month and the average time between charges was a week if I was just reading. If I was watching a video or surfing the web a lot, it was a few days. It wasn't my iPad so I don't know how well the owner took care of it but it seemed to have decent battery life for me. It doesn't last weeks like a Kindle will but then again you can't do all the other stuff on a Kindle so that's a trade-off
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