Apple says new iPad response is "off the charts," preorders sold out - Page 3

I know everyone (Apple & Media) is saying that the iPad will deliver on March 16, but UPS is scheduling my delivery for March 12. I did order mine at 3:00 pm west coast time last Wednesday. Took me around 3 hours just to order it because apples servers were running so slow that day! I did find it easier for myself to use the Apple Store App than the Mac using Safari.

Is it really millions of fanboys lining up to purchase the latest gadget for bragging rights? That may be the case for a very small minority, but most of us just like using the device and know that updates just make the experience better.

The real truth of the matter is that the technology used in handheld devices is growing by leaps and bounds every single year. So, to stay current, most people are on an upgrade cycle of 1-2 years. Which is great for Apple and the industry as a whole. I currently use an original iPad, i put off purchasing the iPad 2 because I knew the retina display was coming. But now, my iPad is showing it's age, which is amazing for a device that is only 2 years old. But that just goes to show how much the technology is changing.

Before the original iPhone, who cared about 3G or LTE? Did you know what the resolution of the screen was on your phone? Did you know what processor is used or how much memory it had? Apple brought to general public the realization that the simple device that everyone was carrying was capable of more than just phone calls, texting, downloading ringtones, and if you had a top of the line product, bare bones email.

Yes, every update after the original release is going to be an incremental update, companies do not redefine a genre every time they release an updated product. The new iPad, better screen resolution, faster processor and graphics, utilizing current top of the line wireless technology around the world (even though there isn't a standard yet). What more do you want from an update, a stylus?

Yeah, and it has all sorts of terrible apps of which very few takes advantage of tablets.

I love how you completely omit the OS it's running. Pity such fantastic hardware is hobbled by an operating system straight out of the dark ages.

I C whut U did thar!

obviously the trolls don't get it

Ha Ha just depends on "which pundits" you read about. Lol there were a ton of them saying the "new iPad is a mediocre upgrade and still are saying it one even said that the windows 8 pads were going to put the "new iPad" to shame its funny really how distant from reality some of these bloggers are

Win8 on tablets is a bet-the-company move for Microsoft. If they fail here, they will be hard-pressed to find avenues to maintain growth or at least minimize the rate of contraction.

Unfortunately for them, they have no recent history of success to really build on. Their biggest recent innovations are things like the Kinect, which hasn't really been a catalyst for meaningful growth in the Xbox world.

The one thing that Microsoft has in their favor is desktop inertia and the "nascent" tablet market relative to it in the enterprise. If the products that really differentiate its capabilities don't make it out mid-year though, it could be game over.

why do people who only want to belittle Apple waste their time here. Seems very foolish to me

NO THIS CANT BE ITS a MEDIOCRE UPGRADE AT BEST

(sarcasm intended)
I got to see one of them and the retina display is drop dead gorgeous.

I certainly give them the credit they are due but it's still not an Samsung device just as who refines the steel ore for car (which accounts for nearly all the weight and component costs) does mean it's their car. They are just one of many companies that are hired by the customer to perform a duty or sell a product. Does an Oscar winning writer owe his career to the PC he used to write his screenplay? I don't think so even though that machine likely made his writing easier.


That is the non-PenTile display. It's very good all around. It does best the iPad's HiDPI display but when you get to a certain point you don't have to. It's not Retina Display level but it's close enough that anyone using it will likely be very satisfied with the image.


Not in any shipping product. I know of no one that is shipping anything Cortex-A15 at the moment. The closest is Qualcomm's Krait but that's an intermediary design and not based on Cortex-A15.

Because of the number of units Apple sells they will usually be behind other vendors who sell only a fraction of the units for newly produced chips. An exception is with their GPUs and displays but they are investing a lot to get rights to these products.

To be fair, Gatorguy appears to get his news from Rob Enderle.


I've been saying that for many years.

It makes sense that people who like a product would spend their time talking with others who like the product to learn about rumors or features that they might not have been aware of.

But for someone to go out of their way and spend a lot of time intentionally going to a web site that's about a product they don't use, don't like, and have no interest in is surely a sign of mental illness.

Then why bother replying?

No suprise, this is my first order of apple prelease product.

I guess you chose to ignore my PM. No biggie.

I've never felt the iPad would be anything but successful

Actually, it is just Apple "fudging" the numbers to look good. Since the items have not actually been sold (in the hands of the customer and Apple having their cash), it's the same as everyone else counting sold when it goes to the retailer. /s

Your lack of knowledge astounds! The A5X is most certainly not samsungs chip. It is a custom asic designed by apple based on the arm core but with a ton of custom add ons inside. Apple designs the guts to the processor and samsung manufactures it. That is the only involvement samsung has nothing more. They DO NOT design the A5X. Samsung is an OEM manufacturer, that is all not a designer. Apple owns all of the rights to the chips they use because they custom build the prototypes the send them to an oem like samsung for mass production. So are you going to say that the new GOBI chip from qualcomm for 4G is a samsung chip? Because samsung manufactures them for qualcomm? I can point to hundreds of other cases just like this. How about the Xbox 360? Is it an IBM system because IBM manufactures the main Power PC processor inside? How about the Playstation 3? Is it an IBM Playstation because IBM Manufactures the Cell Processor inside? Because the Cell is a custom collaboration of power pc between IBM and Sony?

How about the noise cancellation part of the A5X is that samsungs too, does it matter that apple licenses that tech and incorporates it in all of there A series chips?

I could go on about other parts of all of apple products like this all day but you get the point.

Samsung is nothing more than an OEM manufacturer in this regard. They don't own the design to anything inside of any iDevice except maybe the memory, and maybe some of the display tech but apple has a huge hand in the display tech design too.

OEM manufacturers are just that ... companies with the manufacturing facilities to build soc's and asic's
nothing more. If that was not the case why is samsung not using the A5X in there phones and pads?
BECAUSE IT IS NOT THERE TECHNOLOGY. PERIOD. They were contracted to mass manufacture them to Apples specs. Period.

Look to add despite apple and samsungs legal wranglings aside .....Apple is a 8 to 10 Billion dollar OEM Customer to samsung per year But that is the extent of there involvement, like other posts here have said do we give credit to U.S. Steel for making the steel in our cars and say they built them no.
They made the material the car was made out of but not the car. If you look outside electronics you will find that there are literally thousands of "support" or OEM manufacturers that support the main companies that build all of the products all of us use worldwide on a daily basis, but that does not mean that the OEM manufacturers design those products they just help mass manufacture parts for those products to OEM specs. The OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) (Apple in this Case) designs and engineers the product then has someone else build the components that has the facilities to do so.

No surprise at all! Anybody with a half a brain saw this coming.

Unfortunately many people are apparently missing normal, functioning brains.

And it's not just iPad 1 owners and people who don't have iPads who have ordered. I believe that many people who already have iPad 2's have also ordered the new one. I certainly did!

This is no small upgrade, like some clueless morons claim. It is a major, major upgrade, featuring a mind blowing screen that has never before existed on any consumer device.

It's going to be a terrible year for Fandroids all over the world! Isn't that great?

They don't care about it because they don't understand it. I agree, 90% of the iPad buyers are clueless about computers which is why iPad is perfect for them. It allows them to get on Facebook. What else do they need?

In the past with their office computer when they couldn't figure out how to do something they just assumed it was because they are clueless. They would never suspect the device itself could be to blame for lack of functionality. They have learned not to blame their computer because whenever they had suggested something like that in the past, an IT person would embarrass them by showing them that the problem was that they just don't know what the hell they are doing.

Ignorance is bliss.

If they sold 15 Million units last quarter and the ipad 2 has already been out for a while, i don't think that 25 Mil units for the next full quarter is out of line. If they sell more, even better for Apple.

It appears that "winnows everywhere" may be a better name for MS' mobile market share.

Less stock in stores makes no sense. Apple is huge into the visual marketing thing and nothing shows and breeds demand like a news story with video and pictures showing mobs of people waiting outside of an Apple store.

Ok this might be a stupid question but my tracking at FedEx says my iPad is in Kentucky. And that was as of yesterday. I live in Minnesota. If its in Kentucky how can it take until Friday to be delivered to Minnesota?

Sammy needs to stand in line for the new iPad -- so they can copy the box

It's not just the improved screen, it is a faster processor (graphics mostly), more RAM, 4G LTE for those that need it and are willing to pay for it, plus much improved software/apps, video camera, etc. Apple has the better customer experience with everything surrounding the hardware to make it the better choice.

Weren't you the guy who was slamming the original iPad when it came out?

You are the one who simply does not get it. You didn't get it back then and you don't get it now.

How does it feel to be so completely wrong?

You may get it a day early. Fedex is not allowed to deliver it sooner even if they could easily do it.

Unions. Yours is also not the only box on the truck.

I of course agree!

Apparently the NY Times chaned their headline after complaints. Their original headline mirrored the Associated Press which called it a modest upgrade.

I did similar. I'm giving my wife's parents my iPad 2 for Christmas. But I sure as hell wasn't going to give them my iPad 2 on Christmas day. I ordered my upgrade on launch with the same difficulty as most. Can't wait to get the New iPad. Wife's folks will be thrilled once we set them up with wifi in their home.

Some stupid comments from AnandTech:

Good times!

• http://www.anandtech.com/show/5663/a...new-apple-ipad

I'll take AI's trolls any day.

How considerate of you.



Don't you just love used Christmas presents?

To try and stop you. But I realize it's futile....

Apple should embed a hardware Easter egg in the new ipad. Some crazy ass unidentifiable device that glows in the dark and has a stamp that can only be viewed through a microscope that says "Roswell1947" or something like that.

Did I say they designed the A5X, no I said they supplied it, and Apple has tried to get another party to supply it (TSMC) and they had to revert to Samsung.

Samsung (different branch) does design their own ARM soc's, and they are one of the best on the market. In fact I'm saying it wrong, as ARM designs the ARM deisgn (but that's just a part of the overall process in creating a soc)

Really? Who wouldn't love a free iPad. And their computer needs are so basic. They will love the "used" iPad 2. And if anyone else wants to give me their used iPad 2 for Christmas I'll gladly accept another one.

Your 60 million is way too conservative.

I thought FedEx was non-union.

I read nothing trollish about his reply to me. He made a sound rebuttal and offered a link that backs up his position. That's exactly the kind of discourse I expect from this forum.