Apple sends out invites for iPad 2 media event on March 2 - Page 3

Or calendar like apps (which updates content). I am guessing might have to do with the widgets or notification. It will good if they have done something on this in the next iOS release.

I remember SJ saying that the A4 chip does consume very little power and it was the display that was a power drain. This is not a surprise. If they can somehow reduce the display power consumption then they can get the 10+ hours battery life even with a dual core processor. A slightly bigger battery will also help.

Possible. Or, they'll announce the new MacBook Pros and the new iPad - with no iOS 5 preview?

So....

...It is grammatically correct to say:

"With this shit, I will not up with put"?

LOL!

Wrong.

It will be previewed on March 2nd.

Can you imagine how incredibly lame iPad 2's introduction would be if there was no glimpse what it will be able to do come the Fall?

Yea, they'll spend an hour and a half saying its faster thinner and has cameras. Big frigging deal.

Did you even look at the invite? 2011 is the year of what? iOS 5, thats what. iOS 5 as it relates to iPad 2 is one of the most significant things happening this year. Clearly, CLEARLY, this is what the invite refers to.

Speed bump and cameras could be released without an event.

Likely as "lame" as the introduction of the first iPad running 3.2 instead of 4.0 that we all KNEW it would be running.



Draw a giant red arrow on the invitation pointing to this indication of iOS 5 in any form, please.

I agree which is why I think the Retina display will always be a challenge for the iPad.

I missed the iOS part. Apple never announce software like this. They announce it at WWDC.

oh, and...


Lol.

( BTW iOS 5 is really going to disappoint you. )

Hehe.

Who didn't get the joke:





Who didn't get the difference between point-of-sale and Amazon:

Technically speaking -
are we not all a form of the media, here at Appleinsider.
Admittedly, most of us don't have blogs,
but we have opinions, which we express very 'freely'
and punctiliosly (gotta love that word, yeah, I know it's not a 'real' word, however, I'm a member of the 'press' so piss-off!)

SO WHERE'S OUR bloody INVITES!

That's funny right there.

Deepest sympathies. Must make you feel like a flat-chested girl wearing a padded bra. Everybody knows you're up there but nobody much cares.

You may be correct about the next iOS -- here's my reasoning:

-- the iOS beta 4.3 hasn't been updated since 2/1 - it is normally 2 weeks
-- there are some compelling APIs within the beta that have not been discussed or featured
-- there is the probability of faster dual-core CPU and GPU, more RAM
-- there would be an advantage to support OpenCL and CGD programming
-- there is a possibility of 1 or 2 cameras
-- there is a possibility of ThunderBolt high-speed connection to other devices
-- there is the potential to use the iPad as a standalone video creation/editing device
-- there is a potential to use an iPad as a display/control surface for coming Pro Apps

I think that these things, while somewhat useful for the iPhone, will truly exploit the larger screen iPad as a stand-alone device, and as full-fledged member of the iDevice/Mac family.

By announcing the iPad 2 with new capabilities, and concurrently announcing iOS 4.x with new APIs to support those features -- Apple could reset the bar:

-- Announce iPad 2 Mar 2
----- Available for pre-order immediately
----- Shipping begins Mar 25
-- Announce iOS 4.x
----- Available to developers immediately
----- Available April 2011

Here's the effect of all this, in a nutshell:

The competition is trying to get a usable, affordable system out the door. They are jerking around with home screen widgets, Flash-flagellation, over-speced under-supported hardware -- in an attempt to differentiate themselves and appeal to the developer/buyer/user.

While they are doing that, Apple is enhancing the underlying iOS and SDK with constructs to exploit the hardware and software.

By April, the iPad 2, iOS 4.x combo will be doing things that the competition will not be able to address for another year.

Any or all of this can be included in the next iPhone iOS.

It's all about the software, stupid!

That's what I think!

I'll buy one of the new ones if it is still maxed at 64G, but 2 if they have increased them to 128G.

Have it as you like.

Ha! He used to sing it!

"I'm bidin' my ti-em..."
"...'cause that's the kinda' guy I'm"'

Channeling George Carlin?

Where have you been during the last three iOS (formally iPhone OS) announcements?!!

From iPhone 2.0 to iOS 4.0 Apple announced them all in March (only once in early April) with developers betas available for download the same day.

With the increasing growth of 4G one would think Apple would be all over that, but I guess not. Looks like we'll have to wait for iPad3.

hahahahahahahahahahaha

Can we move Lake louise to Hawaii - you think?

it's a waste - ALL THE WAY UP THERE

Somewhere, South of Detroit!

It's the country north of USA .... you know, the one with no bank failures during the latest financial fiasco .... with the "soundest" banking system in the world, according to most "financial experts"....... although that particular term may be redundant in this day and age. ....

Holy Cow Dick (if I may be so presumptuous?)

You're as old as me man!

Holy SHITE!

What? .... Techstud got a promotion? ... why didn't someone tell me?

BULLLL- SHHIITTE!!



Australia could eat you guys for a quick Halloween Breakfast,
or what ever the Yanks do on 'that' day?
or is it Thanksgivingdaybreakfast - beats me?

That's a good catch -- the darker section is not the same shape as a shadow from the cover pealback!

Bidin' My Time - a classic George and Ira Gershwin song (aren't they all?!) from the musical Girl Crazy.

Ah yes .... 4th grade .... the longest 3 years of Techstud's life ....

The original poster that you responded to is too full of him/herself.

To begin with, attendance is by invitation only.

CGC

If I were to hazard a guess, iOS 5 will make the Motorola Atrix and its laptop dock look like a toy.

Hopefully we see some more of Lion.

Did you miss the part where I was referring to Canada?

I've seen discussions that say a Cortex A9 requires less power for the same performance than an A8,

Further, that a GPU core uses less power than a CPU core.

Finally, Apple can implement OpenCL and GCD to use the CPU/GPU cores efficiently.


I suspect that Apple will do all it can to allow developers (Apple and 3rd-party) to exploit the OS and hardware with efficient code.

That's opposed to the competition -- who add power to compensate for inefficient code (poorly-written OS, interpreters, garbage collection, Flash, etc.).

As to Motorola, the timing of Apple's invitation is sublime since the Xoom is scheduled to debut tomorrow - February 24. What a way to kick the pins out from under the competition.

The Xoom may be facing the most disastrous introduction since Tallulah Bankhead opened on Broadway in "Anthony and Cleopatra" - which provoked a devastating review the next day from John Mason Brown in the New York Post: Tallulah Bankhead barged down the Nile last night as Cleopatraand sank.

Isn't RBC a heavy backer of RIM?

I think it's in Wisconsin.

71.5 :d

Count me in in that sentiment.

This whole pedantry on the language is ridiculous. The phraseology is obviously an allusion to ...the year of _____! Well, putting a blank into the press release would be downright stupid.

As was posted earlier, the "rules" of written English are merely guidelines (except by composition teachers who need them for self fulfillment and grading). English as a language adapts and evolves based on usage, it does not and never has remained static bound to a set of mandatory rules. Let the Grammar Police so be chastised and castigated.

Well, you could have stated yours (more aptly) also as:

It's bad to end a sentence with a preposition.

There's what is referred to as artistic license, meant to entice or make the reader ponder ... "Think Different" .., need not explain itself.

And, if you study the history of the English language, you will find that the Shakespeare's English, or that of Milton were written and spoken differently. The language evolves, and continue to do so.

Are you aware that there are variants of the English language, as actually spoken and written all over the world? Lexicographers and linguists who study modern cultures of the world accept these variants as true forms of the English language -- not just the King's English or American English.

Get out more in the larger world... don't spend too much time in the Apple Insider forums. Just don't try your luck as an advertising creator. You will bore everyone, and get fired for being stuffy.

CGC

You might enjoy this:

grammar pedants, language, and stephen fry

But then again, you might not. *grins*

Yes ... and in spite of that, they're still solvent .... go figure.

Apple likes to send subtle messages like this and they invested in a mapping company about a year ago...should be interesting.