What the iPad 3 Looks Like 471
redletterdave writes "If you were expecting a radically different-looking tablet from the iPad 2, prepare for a minor letdown. In the same way Apple upgraded the iPhone 4 into the iPhone 4S, the exterior of the iPad 3 mirrors that of the iPad 2, despite completely renovated and upgraded innards. iLab Factory reportedly provided Sharp with the necessary parts to build the high-resolution iPad 3 display, and in a company blog post, various iPad 3 components are displayed alongside those of the iPad 2 for quick comparison. In addition to a new camera mount that will reportedly match or improve upon the 8-megapixel camera system in the iPhone 4S, the post also revealed that the iPad 3 will be approximately 1 mm thicker than its predecessor to house Apple's upgraded components, including a bigger battery, an improved camera, and a dual-LED lit system to make the 2048 x 1536 display even brighter."
It's new and it's Apple (Score:5, Funny)
Even though I have no need for it, I feel a strange compulsion to throw money at it.
Re:It's new and it's Apple (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's new and it's Apple (Score:5, Funny)
This is for you: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apple [theoatmeal.com]
Essentially looks the same? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:why do we care about shape? (Score:2, Funny)
Will we then no longer expect a radical new shape? (circular tablets?)
Wouldn't that be a radial new shape?
Re:It's new and it's Apple (Score:5, Funny)
Don't practice the politics of envy and class warfare. If you aren't successful enough to be an Apple man that's no ones fault but your own.
Re:Cheaper iPad 2 (Score:5, Funny)
You're missing the point. Tablets are popular in several niches, the biggest one (probably, pulling out of my netherregions but hold on for a sec) is the demographic that can't keep a PC, either Windows or OS X or whatever, running for 5 years if their lives depended on it. The concept of 'upgrading' anything is foreign. They just want their GBs and Angry Birds and whatnot. Thinking is not part of the experience.
Yes, the battery is going to go south in 5 years (2 years, 3 years) but buying a new Shiny every couple of years is what these folks are designed to do. It beats actually learning about the computer or car or TV or $InsertHiTechItemHere.
This is a totally different 'computing' paradigm. It's not the computer you grew up with. It's probably not something you're much interested in.
But YOU are not THEM. You're a rumor, recognizable only as deja vu and dismissed just as quickly. You don't exist; you were never even born. Anonymous is your name. C++ your native tongue. You're no longer part of the System. You're above the System. Over it. Beyond it. We're "them." We're "they."
Thus the proof that Apple is not about status (Score:5, Funny)
In an increasingly narcissitic society, we look to the gadgets we wield to say something about our social status.
Perhaps you do. Apple users just want something that works. That's why Apple doesn't need to change designs between cycles and people still buy them anyway- because they are actually useful and people buy them for that more than for something they display for looks only.
What you say is true of cars and clothes, to give people some reason they might want a new car or new clothes.
Re:Cheaper iPad 2 (Score:5, Funny)
Fanboys. Anti-fanboys. Two sides of the same irrational coin if you ask me.
Re:Thus the proof that Apple is not about status (Score:2, Funny)
Um... it's a well known fact that everyone well knows that all Apple users are Penny-farthing riding hipsters with handlebar mustaches who don't even know how to turn on their Apple stuff and in fact most of them never even open the boxes, they just like walking around showing them off to the other Apple hipsters on their bikes and so they never even know that inside there's not even an electronical device but just a piece of clay because Apple doesn't even know how to make anything; they're just marketers.
I'll tell you why (Score:5, Funny)
I'll tell you why. Because troll moderators have taken over the site and are trying to subvert it. Because the IT readership that used to visit Slashdot has been bleeding from the site in the last few years, leaving behind the more extremist posters. Because if you say something that those posters don't like, they abuse the moderation system to drive you off the site rather than reply and explain why you're wrong.
The latest thing is to accuse absolutely everyone of being a "shill" so that others will follow along and do their dirty work. My post didn't go down to -1 Flamebait until someone else accused me of being a shill and got modded +5 Insightful (!). Because of the default filters, +5 comments are automatically expanded while less than +2 is collapsed, so now every moderator reading the comments for the first time will see that post first and likely not even read what I wrote.
CmdrTaco promised a new moderation system for years, and it never arrived before he left the site. This limited moderation pool concept is terrible. It makes it so that a single point in either direction has a drastic effect on karma and effectively restricts people from posting something that's unpopular, even if it's legitimately true.
This is off-topic, and so I'd be justified in getting downmodded for this, but since my karma is getting completely destroyed right now anyway, I may as well post it before I'm limited to two posts a day. Thanks, Slashdot. Thanks, troll moderators.
Re:Why does Apple/iPad get so much attention? (Score:2, Funny)
I don't get it... There are x dozen tablet makers out there (Samsung/Android most notably), but each time the tiniest detail about iPhone/iPad "N" is leaked, there is a big bruhaha and Apple gets huuuuuge attention.
That's because its not just you, Samsung and the others also don't get it.