Cold Water on the iPad 2 Retina Display Hype

Re:Cold Water on the iPad 2 Retina Display Hype by jpcx01 on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @01:28AM (#2118914)

At this point, Gruber is basically an extension of Apple's marketing department. Someone at Apple said "people are going to be disappointed when iPad doesn't have double resolution, leak some info to gruber to tamper down expectations".

I'm going to go ahead and take this one as fact. Retina iPad would be great, but that'll be in a year or 2.

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Re:Cold Water on the iPad 2 Retina Display Hype by brianpan on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @01:44AM (#2118949)

Gruber, of course, has some interesting comments in that area:

>From an official PR perspective, Apple, famously, says nothing regarding what it will or will not be announcing before a major keynote. But they do, somehow, seem to occasionally manage expectations quietly behind the scenes.

-On the pre-MacBook Air hype

http://daringfireball.net/2008/01/macworld_expo_prelude

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Re:Cold Water on the iPad 2 Retina Display Hype by nestlequ1k on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @02:23AM (#2119019)

So Gruber is well aware that he is a tool.

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Re:Cold Water on the iPad 2 Retina Display Hype by brianpan on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @02:11PM (#2120848)

Name calling aside, all journalists depend on their subject for news and all subjects have a interest in being reported in a positive light. Of course there are degrees to which that relationship is a two-way relationship. A war correspondent doesn't want war, but yet without it, they don't have a job. And the politicians waging the war are considering the impact of media portrayal. Are they using the media as a tool? They sure will if they can.

Movie critic? Game review blog? Local news reporter? They are all being "used".

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Re:Cold Water on the iPad 2 Retina Display Hype by ot on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @04:34AM (#2119275)

In fact, it is disappointing. iPad's readability is nowhere near the iPhone 4.

A screen update, for a device whose primary purpose is reading, is really needed IMHO.

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