Apple announced several new products the other day. In the over all hype of ifanboys and fandroids arguing or whatever you would call them (What's the nickname of Linux fanboys? Microsoft junkies?), Apple let slip the newest name for their iPad. Well, they couldn't call it "The New iPad". That's already been taken. And, hmm, maybe to continue with iPad 5 would send them down the same naming scheme as the iPhone. I first saw the name while perusing Apple's website to find the video of the announcement. My hopes rose. Maybe, the Air name will follow the path of the Macbooks. Apple has patent for a iPad/Macbook ultrabook/whatever. There's a Macbook Pro and a Macbook Air? Will there be an iPad Pro?
Will Apple finally fulfill my wishes? Will Apple be the first to truly create the perfect tablet PC?
"Our competition is different. They're confused. They chased after netbooks. Now they are trying to make PCs into tablets and tablets into PCs. Who knows what they will do next?"
Fuck.
OK. All is not lost. Maybe we will see a better really awesome easily attainable iPad mini with loads of new features, great storage, and basically be an awesome retina seven inch iPhone? Right? Something that would fill the gap for every average person out there who wants a larger phone, but small tablets and that's it. As their only mobile solution? With hundred of thousands of apps and it all syncs magically and "just works" with their Mac back home?
"And the one most requested feature to add to iPad mini, was a beautiful Retina display. And that's what we're gonna do today."
O.K. Here we go.
"Brand new A7 chip with it's 64-bit architecture."
Holy crap?! 64-bit? Does this mean more ram and maybe real PC power in such a small package?
10 hours battery? Good, good. Faster WiFi. As to be expected. More general stuff. Alright. What nothing else? This is it? Ah well, at least they'll keep the price in the $300 range, maybe drop off 16GB and start at 32GB. Would be nice. Could make a great recommendation to the elder computer users in my household.
"And the new iPad mini with retina display with be priced..."
At $329. I get it. Blah blah LTE is extra, blah blah...
"at just $399. That's for 16 gigs with WiFi and..."
What! What?! $399? For something that's slower, less usable, more restrictive and harder to provide support to?
Fist off. Let's start with the 64-bit architecture. Maybe Apple is prepping to make a few upgrades later in the years. But why market it so much. "Desktop class architecture in a phone!" Yeah, too bad the 500MB or 1GB of RAM in your devices have nothing extra to bring with 64-bit. So, 64-bit is pointless in a machine that has nothing close to 4GB of RAM.
Second off. If Apple is really not going to add anything innovative and worth while to their devices in these announcements, they really need to just learn to stop spewing all the techno-babble filth that none of their target audience truly understands and just market it as the New iPad. Or, the New iPhone. They did it with the iPad 3. And having to work and grow up besides the target audience, it worked. They knew nothing other than that it was new and they needed it. I could gain so much time back if Apple would just show it and move on. I don't need so much flub and neither do the people who actually buy the phone.
Why line up at the stores? The product hasn't even been announced yet?! What if the new phone is simply that. I'd love to see one time, Apple re-releases the same exact iPad and market it as new. Come on. Next year, keep producing the same exact iPad Air and just say that there are new iPad Airs. That's it. Don't show specs, don't talk new processors. Just show it off, promote a few new apps or OS "features" and open the stores to the waves of sheep. I swear. It'll work perfectly.
This post has been written by a tech geek who has used Windows and OS9/10 through-out his life, dabbled with Linux distros, owned an iPad, supported plenty of iPhones and iPads, Android phones and tablets, Blackberrys, and Windows Mobile/Phone. Keith has no cult following to any specific sect of technology. He has recommended products based on what they do and how they work, not what OS they run or how beautiful the case or screen may look. He will argue with an iFanboy for praising a product with lack of innovation and turn right around to bitch-slap an Fandroid for saying "Android did it first" and exclaim: Yeah, but WP8 did it better! and then scream at Microsoft for fucking with people's mind on Windows RT. He is the everyman of tech, and represents the entirety of the computing world. Well, except for WebOS. He only once replaced the battery in a Palm Pixi. That's it.
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