Apple iPad and related items (part 2)

[Kid_Eternity]

GiffGaff sim has arrived and is installed. After some odd and slightly annoying pissing about its all running properly.

 

[audiotech]

Good stuff, enjoy your £5 in credit. Anymore? Click here.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Cheers!

 

[Crispy]

Ordered

 

[Kid_Eternity]

3G connection is pretty stable and fast so far, happy.

 

[Winot]

I see that Apple are offering £170 credit against a new iPad by recycling my iPad2. It's quite tempting as the iPad2 is on 16GB and is getting full (mainly with kids stuff) and feels heavy compared to the iPad mini.

Does this offer mean d'you think that an even newer iPad is imminent? I've lost track of where we are in the cycle.

 

[Bob_the_lost]

It's possible, the last generation was released in November 2013 and they've generally been a year at most between iPad releases. They can tweak the CPU, Memory and stick in a finger print reader and they've got a new device.

Iif Apple are sticking to their habits they'll also want a custom networking system for any apple wearables such as the mythical iWatch.

 

[elbows]

It is reasonable to presume that new ones will be announced in October.

Any sort of 'custom networking system' is likely to be a software layer in iOS. On the hardware side it would probably involve Bluetooth LE, which they have started using for a range of other things already. Early iPads, macs etc lack this form of bluetooth but more recent models already have it.

In terms of what has been announced in the iOS/app side of things that is along similar lines or may integrate well with a smart watch, already announced there is health book, Handoff (for mac<->iOS communication of certain things) and the ability for 3rd party devs to write their own widgets for the notification dropdown in both iOS and OSX.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

I see that Apple are offering £170 credit against a new iPad by recycling my iPad2. It's quite tempting as the iPad2 is on 16GB and is getting full (mainly with kids stuff) and feels heavy compared to the iPad mini.

Does this offer mean d'you think that an even newer iPad is imminent? I've lost track of where we are in the cycle.

Yep new models in October/ November...

 

[Winot]

Yep new models in October/ November...

I went for a new iPad Air in the end - Apple gave me £120 for my old iPad2 16GB (wifi only) which seemed like a reasonable deal.

Haven't had time to play yet, but it's noticeably lighter.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Got one for work and it's a very nice tablet, so bloody light for its size!

 

[editor]

Looks like the iPad may have truly plateaud in sales now, with large screen phones doing some of the hurtin':

While the iPhone’s business continues to grow, the iPad is showing signs of slowing. The tablet sold 13.3 million units in the quarter, down 9 percent year-over-year and down 19 percent from the period between January and March of this year. This was the second straight quarter the iPad slipped in year-over-year sales—in the second fiscal quarter the device line was down 16 percent. In fact, the entire tablet market was down in the U.S. early this year because of increased competition from large-screen smartphones
http://time.com/3020367/apple-q3-earnings/

 

[Throbbing Angel]

I went for a new iPad Air in the end - Apple gave me £120 for my old iPad2 16GB (wifi only) which seemed like a reasonable deal.

Haven't had time to play yet, but it's noticeably lighter.

Did you do this in-store or post it off to Dataserv? Just wondering as my nearest Apple store is approx 65 miles away.

 

[Winot]

Did you do this in-store or post it off to Dataserv? Just wondering as my nearest Apple store is approx 65 miles away.

In the Regent St store.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

£120 for iPad 2 is pretty decent given the third gen retina goes for something like £200...

 

[mack]

Just trying to make some space on an ipad - I've copied the camera roll photos - but there are more in individual folders, how do I copy those to a windows machine?