SavageRehab
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So what do you think ? Will you be getting one or upgrading from the original ?.
Not enough of an upgrade for me. Camera on the back makes no sense as if you would hold it up in public to take a picture.
Storage should have been increased to 128GB. I like the cpu upgrade.
See what happens next year with the next iPad.
It's for FaceTime, it's not meant to be a point and shoot; you take a video-call and rather than having to turn the thing 180 degrees to show your friend your new car or something you just tap the screen in the appropriate place and you can see the view from the rear camera and aim it at whatever it is you want to show them.
The hardware is enough to run anything devs will throw at it comfortably and run the OS, web-browsing and all that very fast (as we can see from the hands-on videos).
Face-Time cameras are the same as the iPhone 4/iPod Touch on the front (Apple use the same parts across the range, saves money) and from the pictures I've seen the picture quality on calls is fine, will you be looking at your friends nose hair?
SD cards will never happen with iOS for three reasons:
1) everything goes through iTunes
2) Apple doesn't do user-replaceable/upgradable on iOS
3) AirDrop is coming/here on Mac OS X and will surely arrive on iOS 5, so if people want to file transfer they'll be doing it wirelessly rather than with a physical medium
The iPad 2 outputs 1080p video over HDMI, you just need to buy their 30pin-to-HDMI adapter (which also works with iPad at 720p).
People aren't just buying specs, they are buying into a lifestyle product, the way the adverts show the possibilities with the software e.t.c. Something else might have better internals, but if what you can actually do with them is limited by poor/fragmented support, lack of developer interest because people on your platform want everything for free so there's not much profit potential or people just don't see it as 'cool', then it's just ticks in boxes really.
"Apple has...convinced consumers to buy a product that they don't really need."