Are you going to buy the next-generation iPad 3?

[nikedis]

Apple has sent out invitations for a media event scheduled for next week Wednesday, March 7. The event will be held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and is scheduled to begin at 10:00 AM Pacific / 1:00 PM Eastern. The tagline on the invitation reads "We have something you really have to see. And touch." It has been rumored that iPad 3 has cancel the home button.
I deem this message hold many people breath for a while. May I ask you all a question? Are you going to buy this iPad 3? Or want to trade the old for iPad 3?

Welcome to share your opinion!

[fryke]

I guess by now it's clear that the iPad 3 will get a 2K by 1.5K pixel display, and that's enough reason for me to buy one. I'm pretty sure they _won't_ call it Retina, because by their own definition of what a retina display is, it's _not_ one, but it's close enough, and that'll really make reading and reading webpages sooo much better on it. Don't care about any other rumours about it, though. LTE is not yet happening here in Switzerland, so that can wait another year for me. It being a bit thicker: Not very Apple-ish, but I guess I can live with that.

[Satcomer]

LTE is not yet happening here in Switzerland, so that can wait another year for me. It being a bit thicker: Not very Apple-ish, but I guess I can live with that.

LTE really doesn't live up to the hype. The LTE chip at this time will suck your battery dry in less than 2 hours. IMHO Apple is waiting for the LTE chip to be much more efficient, just like they waited for 3G (between the original iPhone and the iPhone 3GS)like the Edge original iPhone.

Also here in the USA there are artificial barriers on the amount of data a smartphone can use in one month. IMHO just like the carriers in the USA gouge users with SMS (in the USA the sender and the recipient pay for a SMS message). This why there are summary applications to get around SMS in the App store. So the LTE will just get you to the monthly data cap quicker.

I just sure hope Apple uses the new Qualcomm chipset. This way the battery will not drain the battery hen not using LTE. IMHO anyone that sings the praises of an LTE phone really doesn't tell the truth.

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Yup, I'll be one of the idiots in line the night before. Did it with the iPad, the iPad 2, and now that the "retina" display is integrated into the iPad, oh holy hell, yes, I'll be in line.

[SGilbert]

Personally, I have no use for any iPad (MBP & iPhone), but have putting the wife off for over a year. If I wish to keep my happy home, I'll be getting her an iPad3.

[ElDiabloConCaca]

That's what's happening in my household: my wife declined the first iPad, declined the second iPad, but when I told her about the third iPad, she got really interested in my iPad 2 all of a sudden.

Typically, the "house rule" was that I had to make the money to buy a new iPad, so that involved selling the old iPad, doing some work on the side, then getting the new one. This time around, I'm free to use family funds... so, launch day -1, you'll find me at La Cantera, in line, rain or shine. Then the iPad 2 will be re-purposed for the wife.

REALLY looking forward to the "retina display" over anything else. I was amazed at how much different going from an iPhone 3G to an iPhone 4 was -- not just the speed (which was nice), but the clarity and readability of the screen. Absolutely amazing.

An iPad with a "retina display?" That will solve just about 100% of the quibbles I have with my iPad 2.

[sgould]

I can't see the need for an iPad...

I bought one for my wife as a birthday present.

She now complains that I keep pinching it!!

[ElDiabloConCaca]

I never saw the need until I bought and used one. It really did speak out and say, "Look, there may better ways to do some of the things that you're doing now. Try it like this, and tell me what you think." It takes the (flawed) notion of, "we do it this way today because this is how we did it yesterday" and flops that on its ear.

You have to shoehorn it into your digital workflow, as there really isn't a void there that needs filling, but once it's it there, it's tough to do without.

That's kind of the beauty of it: you don't need to use it, you just want to use it. It makes certain things easier -- or it gives me the appearance of making certain things easier, at least. And suddenly, there does seem to be a void that exists if you're ever without it.

It's like different shopping styles: some people tend to decide that they "need" something when they're casually browsing at the store and that item suddenly comes into view, then it's as if they could never live without leaving with that item. Some people, on the other hand, decide that they "need" a particular something before they even leave the house, then they go out, specifically get that item and that item alone, and they're done, no matter what other items cross their path while they were out. Getting the iPad was the definitely the former, not the latter, and I suspect it's similar for many. I know quite a few iPad owners -- none of them specifically went out and got an iPad to fulfill a particular need of theirs that the iPad alone could fulfill. In fact, I think, because the iPad was really the first truly viable tablet-style computing device on the market that NOBODY had an absolute "need" for one, and so, at least initially, EVERYONE was buying them just to see what's up with this fun, little, new device.

With the maturing of the iPad, I suspect that many more will be purchasing them due to needs, not wants. I see this apparent in the medical and education fields -- they've proven to be reliable, portable, and in many cases, more efficient alternatives to things like paper charts, textbooks, and pen/paper; enhancing those things in ways that the former solutions just couldn't (when was the last time you watched a video of a seed sprouting in a textbook?).

The future will be interesting. In the meantime, I want my dang-ol' retina display iPad already.