Are rumors that the iPad 2 has been delayed greatly exaggerated?
There’s been a whole ton of rumored launch periods for the iPad 2. First, it was certainly coming in January. Then rumors point to the end of January. As January ebbed away and February came barreling around the corner, speculation turned to the first week of February. This week, analysts were saying it could be June before we see the device because of production problems. However, here we are, with March nearly upon us, and there’s no new iPad.
Well, if multiple sources speaking to All Things D are to be believed, next Wednesday, March 2, will be the day. Kara Swisher says the event will take place in San Francisco, likely at the usual Yerba Buena Center, next Wednesday and that several sources close to the situation say the date is firm.
Let the countdown begin.
UPDATE: Apple event confirmed to be on March 2!
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>just sayin
You have just stumbled upon economics 101, which is the very foundation that Apple uses in order to rape it's consumers (victims). Wiki planned obsolescence. Then google money-market economy.
If you actually take this seriously then you will learn some pretty knowledgeable stuff. I commend you on being someone who is capable of noticing these things, because most people (95% of the population) overlook it their entire life. Kudos.
Why are they pushing these iOS things out so often? Why not just support the ones they have and wait a couple years to incorporate multiple new technologies into the next generation, rather than 1 every year?
Makes no sense.
I'm not an Apple fan, but even less of a fan of incessant whiners who think everything made in the world has to target them. Apple targets a different market, people that can make money and are willing to spend it for something they want.
Forget price, either the iPad 2 is what you want or it isn't. If it's what I want (it isn't, in actuality), I would pay $700 or whatever, because working with a tool that I like working with is worth it to me. If I have to pay a couple hundred for that comfort, well, it's worth it. It's like buying more expensive food, when oat gruel or ramon noodles might do. You still buy the more expensive food, without whining about it.
Also, despite the rants and such, Apple has been rated the most reliable computers made by several independent studies. I'm not sure I believe it entirely, but, they are not junk on the inside, at any rate.
While I don't want an iPad 2, or iPhone, or anything Apple (and sadly, never had, except for a pretty Apple watch, and a nice mouse pad with a scantily clad girl on it), I always like companies that do something different, instead of drone companies like Dell and HP that don't do anything new, except create new emblems for their boxes.
Intel and AMD are innovative, and are excellent. But their customers often lack vision and innovation when using their products. Apple at least makes efforts to create new stuff, and reach new people in a way that wasn't done or done successfully before. What's HP or Dell ever do, except copy Apple?
So indifferent you can't resist coming into an Apple thread and posting. **yawn**
Because technology changes more than every couple of years. That's why.
First smart post on here. Thank you. To all the whiners on here, don't buy the thing. No one cares if you can't afford Apples products. Us "victims" have disposable incomes and choose what to buy. No one has a gun to our heads when we buy one of their products. Call me a fanboy or whatev. It doesn't matter.
Sent from my Windows 7 PC.