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Apple iPad and related items (part 2)

Given that retailers have been told that there are no ipads available for order right now, I expect immediate availability.

I also expect few surprises today, so won't bother reading the liveblogs.
 
Crispy said:
Given that retailers have been told that there are no ipads available for order right now, I expect immediate availability.

I also expect few surprises today, so won't bother reading the liveblogs.
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Some people will still be besides themselves with joy even if only the tiniest update is announced. I know this to be true because I've been to an Apple launch event and it was very weird indeed.

Jobs: "We can announce a slight increase in RAM"
Audience: "WOOT! AWESOME! OMG! etc etc" Cue: applause, cheering, high fives etc
 
Man oh man - you won't believe the drivel that is being posted up on tech sites/blogs now.

I guess they're all keen to extract every last bit of advertising revenue from traffic in the build up but it all feels a bit weird. It's just a fucking product refresh and all this hyperbole is weird.

Anyway, I reckon the iPad 2 is going to spark off a few threads so I'll start one now so people can post up their opinions/reaction to the actual thing very shortly.
 
Apple are really feeling the heat off the competition given how many digs they've made in barely 20 minutes...

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Apple mindset is interesting, faced with tons of competition bump the specs a bit but rave about the pretty coloured covers!

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With the cheapest iPad currently costing £329, the poor old Xoom is looking a very sad competitor.
 
beesonthewhatnow said:
Yep. Anything that isn't significantly cheaper than the iPad is dead in the water.
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Yep. Even if it has a far better OS (the HP tablet) or far better specs (the Xoom), the public aren't going to be interested when there's the app-stuffed iPad around for the same price or less.

The only area where I get tempted is for more innovative products like the HTC Flyer that offer something significantly different than the iPad. Right now, that's the only tablet I'm vaguely interested in.
 
editor said:
Yep. Even if it has a far better OS (the HP tablet) or far better specs (the Xoom), the public aren't going to be interested when there's the app-stuffed iPad around for the same price or less.

The only area where I get tempted is for more innovative products like the HTC Flyer that offer something significantly different than the iPad. Right now, that's the only tablet I'm vaguely interested in.
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I think that is bunk. Its got a nice OS, but its still far behind iOS in terms of stability and features. It might have some nice UI elements but that does not make it the worlds greatest mobile operating system.
 
It's like laptops - would anyone buy a windows machine if they were the same price as a macbook? You'd have to be insane.

If other manufactures can't or won't compete with Apple on price they may as well not bother.
 
Sunray said:
I think that is bunk. Its got a nice OS, but its still far behind iOS in terms of stability and features. It might have some nice UI elements but that does not make it the worlds greatest mobile operating system.
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Have you actually tried the HP tablet? Where are getting this "instability" guff from?
 
beesonthewhatnow said:
It's like laptops - would anyone buy a windows machine if they were the same price as a macbook? You'd have to be insane.

If other manufactures can't or won't compete with Apple on price they may as well not bother.
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Given apples fat margin, they probably could sell a MacBook that cheap. Goes to show how important the tablet sector is for them. If they can define and dominate it, they stand to win far bigger.
 
iPad killing the competition

Wow for all the frothing at the mouth the anti Apple brigade do when it comes to hyping up other tablets their beloved devices have a HUGE uphill struggle to dethrone Apple:

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The Motorola Xoom was widely expected to take on the iPad, with better specs and the Android 3.0 OS. Unfortunately for this pretender to the throne, it was lacking some promised hardware and software features when it shipped, and is priced higher than most iPad 2 models.

Forrester's Sarah Rotman Epps blogged that all of the upcoming competitors, such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, the HP Touchpad, and RIM's PlayBook, have serious problems with their product strategies. Many are priced higher than similar iPad models and/or come with carrier contracts to subsidize the high price. Most of Forrester's research points to consumer disinterest in having to sign a long-term contract for a tablet.

Forrester expects 24.1 million tablets to sell in 2011 in the U.S., and close to 20 million of those will be iPads. Another market research firm, ChangeWave, is also predicting that 82% of people planning to buy a tablet in the next 90 days will buy an iPad.
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:eek:
 
I downloaded Garageband for ipad over the weekend.
Wow.
This is a very very capable multitrack music maker, with high-quality instruments and an incredibly slick and easy interface. It's no Logic or Pro Tools, but you can easily make very professional-sounding music with it (but you can always sync your project to the desktop version of Garageband, and from there into Logic). Add a USB audio interface for recording/sampling and you're even better off. In terms of sound quality and ease-of-use it utterly shits on every other music making app I've tried. And it's only 3 quid. Fantastic, 5 stars without a doubt.
 
Crispy said:
I downloaded Garageband for ipad over the weekend.
Wow.
This is a very very capable multitrack music maker, with high-quality instruments and an incredibly slick and easy interface. It's no Logic or Pro Tools, but you can easily make very professional-sounding music with it (but you can always sync your project to the desktop version of Garageband, and from there into Logic). Add a USB audio interface for recording/sampling and you're even better off. In terms of sound quality and ease-of-use it utterly shits on every other music making app I've tried. And it's only 3 quid. Fantastic, 5 stars without a doubt.
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G'wan. Write a wirefresh review!
 
Crispy said:
Maybe, maybe...

How many words?
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As many as you like really, but ideally over 200 words. :)

Being able to share my enthusiasm about products I really like is one of the things that keeps me doing wirefresh (because the revenue it generates its teensy weensy!). If you get enough reviews under your belt you can usually start blagging/borrowing gear too :)
 
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