Which iPad 2 to buy?

Re:Which iPad 2 to buy? by gaiusparx on Friday March 11, 2011 @11:28AM (#2313857)

I wonder if the author actually own a first generation iPad. 16GB is enough if you have only one screenful of apps and games. 16GB is definitely not enough if you ever play games such as Infinity Blade (850M), Fifa 11 (1.2G), Real Racing 2 etc. And even GarageBand is over 400M. How about your mp3? movie files and ebooks? 32GB is more adequate.

And iPad 3 will be March 2012. It is too soon. iPad 2 might not even complete its worldwide launch by fall. The Fall rumour most likely is a 6 inch iPod touch launching in September iPod event.

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Re:Which iPad 2 to buy? by code_duck on Friday March 11, 2011 @12:40PM (#2314128)

The way Steve vigorously came out against 7" tablets makes me suspect they'll launch one, too. His logic was rather questionable (you need to sand your finger tips to points to use apps on a 7" tablet, but not a 3.5" phone?).

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Re:Which iPad 2 to buy? by ugh on Friday March 11, 2011 @03:29PM (#2314771)

What he probably means by that is that he doesn’t want any further fragmentation. A 7" tablet would need an optimized UI for the reduced screen size (you can’t just shrink down iPad apps or blow up iPhone apps), Apple doesn’t want that.

There won’t be a 7" tablet anytime soon (within the next twelve months) and that whole September business is based on pure speculation, not any sources or evidence.

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Re:Which iPad 2 to buy? by code_duck on Friday March 11, 2011 @08:43PM (#2315687)

While I'd love to have an in-between sized Apple device personally, I agree with that line of thinking. I can picture what facing that would be like as an iOS developer - it would be a pain.

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