Apple sends out invites for iPad 2 media event on March 2

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  • Reply 141 of 173
    i cant wait to jailbreak this baby when it comes out.
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  • Reply 142 of 173
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    Originally Posted by OzExige View Post


    ?or what ever the Yanks do on 'that' day?

    or is it Thanksgivingdaybreakfast - beats me?



    Dude! Don't hate on Thanksgiving. It's the best holiday of the year! No cards. No flowers. No presents. Nothing. Just FOOD!
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  • Reply 143 of 173
    alfiejralfiejr Posts: 1,524member
    my god, i can't believe this thread. it's full of jokes and has no insults or personal attacks.



    the campers must be happy.
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  • Reply 144 of 173
    addaboxaddabox Posts: 12,665member
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    Originally Posted by Prof. Peabody View Post


    Yeah. Also, if it was worded correctly (as per your example) it would be unreadable nonsense, so the slightly incorrect grammar is definitely preferred.



    People forget also that advertising copy is not proper English and never has been. Traditionally, a huge amount of leeway is given advertising agencies since their very business is inventive wordplay.



    If it was a headline in a newspaper it's time to get upset, when it's an advert ... not so much.



    In my family, the traditional granting of leeway was celebrated ill-hung bunting with.
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  • Reply 145 of 173
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    Originally Posted by newbee View Post


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



    NO



    But you did.



    I WAS referrin to Canaydia
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  • Reply 146 of 173
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    Originally Posted by Alfiejr View Post


    my god, i can't believe this thread. it's full of jokes and has no insults or personal attacks.



    the campers must be happy.



    PISS-OFF then
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  • Reply 147 of 173
    docno42docno42 Posts: 3,764member
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    Originally Posted by GQB View Post


    I think the reason Apple likes the reflective glass



    Apple likes it because consumers overwhelmingly prefer it.



    Even on the PC side of things - how many PC laptops default to matte vs. the higher contrast and brighter glossy displays?
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  • Reply 148 of 173
    docno42docno42 Posts: 3,764member
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    Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum View Post


    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.



    Apple's frameworks like OpenCL, but even basic Quartz and others do this automatically. This is the huge advantage Apple has. As the hardware improves, the existing programs will get boosted performance automatically. Sure, when certain routines are optimized applications can speed up more - but the way the SDK is structured right now, there is quite a bit of automatic optimization going on under the hood.



    Such incremental advantages of "The Apple Way" are just going to continue to accelerate the gap between Apple and everyone else.
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  • Reply 149 of 173
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    Originally Posted by RandomAnonymousBlackmail View Post


    Will it cost me 30% of my salary to attend?



    Wow. You registered just to post that lame joke. How embarrassing





    Quote:
    Originally Posted by David Scubadiver View Post


    Boy, it seems insane to have an iPad2 in the spring and an iPad3 in the fall.



    How about just on in the summer. Release the iPhone in July, the iPad in August n th th iPod touch in September. Then the iphon can get all th goodies first but the iPad doesn't go months with out them



    Quote:
    Originally Posted by asdasd View Post


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



    I have to agree with those that think this will be another early preview so apps can be ready for the release





    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rot'nApple View Post


    Any rumor as to who will MC the event since Steve is on leave?



    Who says Steve can't. Last check he wasn't in a coma or stuck in a hospital bed. And there is no law that says he can't because he is on leave. Who knows perhaps he's about to return to work and the event will be his first day back
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  • Reply 150 of 173
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    Originally Posted by charlituna View Post


    How about just on in the summer. Release the iPhone in July, the iPad in August n th th iPod touch in September. Then the iphon can get all th goodies first but the iPad doesn't go months with out them



    Putting the iPad after the iPhone makes people demand everything the iPhone has in the iPad. Apple doesn't want to do that.
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  • Reply 151 of 173
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    Originally Posted by DanaCameron View Post


    Dude! Don't hate on Thanksgiving. It's the best holiday of the year! No cards. No flowers. No presents. Nothing. Just FOOD!



    Hey Man, I aint hatin'



    However, it appears I'll have to divest myself of all vestiges of satyrical humor <eh>



    My sincere and deepest apologies for bein' a stoopid 'down-under' grunt!



    BTW: I've been having a personal love affair with all things of The U S of A

    since my first visit in 1969, at the age of 16, no less



    Nine months later I fell pregnant and gave birth to my first car <umm that was humor? Yes? NO>

    a shiny used 1965 Chevy Impala Pillerless Hardtop Auto White 327ci



    My current car, 42 years later, has a Corvette LS2 engine, the great great great great GRANDson of the 327 V8 Chevy motor.



    I'm in Love
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  • Reply 152 of 173
    chris_cachris_ca Posts: 2,543member
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    Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum View Post


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



    As someone else noted, that's how most of their products are shown.



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  • Reply 153 of 173
    jcozjcoz Posts: 251member
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    Originally Posted by hentaiboy View Post


    Yep. You can see it in this stock photo from Apple's website. Do people seriously think the invite photo is iPad 2.0?







    Can you link to that photo?



    I had not seen any photos on the site like that.
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  • Reply 154 of 173
    hirohiro Posts: 2,663member
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    Originally Posted by Jcoz View Post


    Can you link to that photo?



    I had not seen any photos on the site like that.



    http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/



    It's only in the standard front line fluff. It took three clicks to navigate to, all obvious ones. Maybe a little self exploration is in order before you ask for hand holding?



    And OBTW, the same graphic in different sizes appears in a good half-dozen plus other places on the site. It's actually hard to miss if you are looking for it.
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  • Reply 155 of 173
    irelandireland Posts: 17,802member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by hentaiboy View Post


    Yep. You can see it in this stock photo from Apple's website. Do people seriously think the invite photo is iPad 2.0?



    You'll be eating crow soon enough.
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  • Reply 156 of 173
    jeffdmjeffdm Posts: 12,954member
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    Originally Posted by Ireland View Post


    You'll be eating crow soon enough.



    Does it make sense to take a firm position on this? I can see it realistically going either way.
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  • Reply 157 of 173
    hirohiro Posts: 2,663member
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    Originally Posted by Ireland View Post


    You'll be eating crow soon enough.



    How? All the dude is saying is that the photo in the invite is a stock photo off the current website. I don't see any crow being eaten over that, he's correct on that point.



    So are you going to dine on some corvus cornix for your poor case of reading comprehension?
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  • Reply 158 of 173
    jcozjcoz Posts: 251member
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    Originally Posted by Hiro View Post


    http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/



    It's only in the standard front line fluff. It took three clicks to navigate to, all obvious ones. Maybe a little self exploration is in order before you ask for hand holding?



    And OBTW, the same graphic in different sizes appears in a good half-dozen plus other places on the site. It's actually hard to miss if you are looking for it.



    Well I had already prior to posting, obviously it was missed, saw it the second time around.



    So sorry to inconvenience you, god forbid you just link it in the first place.
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  • Reply 159 of 173
    hirohiro Posts: 2,663member
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    Originally Posted by Jcoz View Post


    Well I had already prior to posting, obviously it was missed, saw it the second time around.



    So sorry to inconvenience you, god forbid you just link it in the first place.



    Wow, God forbid I did link it, maybe I should edit the link out to make you happy. In the future if you don't want the heat, stay out of the kitchen. Throw-downs that are little more than calling for links are generally poor form and indicate laziness.



    There are ways you could have worded things differently to avoid the implication of "I didn't see the pic, so prove it!". An implication only enhanced by the absolute ease which I found the first three of the pics in about 15seconds including page load times. When it's that easy, most call-out folks are BS-ing about having looked at all. If you did look, you did so in an exceptionally lackadaisical manner. However you want the situation skinned, getting pissy over it when the link was offered didn't help.
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  • Reply 160 of 173
    jcozjcoz Posts: 251member
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    Originally Posted by Hiro View Post


    Wow, God forbid I did link it, maybe I should edit the link out to make you happy. In the future if you don't want the heat, stay out of the kitchen. Throw-downs that are little more than calling for links are generally poor form and indicate laziness.



    There are ways you could have worded things differently to avoid the implication of "I didn't see the pic, so prove it!". An implication only enhanced by the absolute ease which I found the first three of the pics in about 15seconds including page load times. When it's that easy, most call-out folks are BS-ing about having looked at all. If you did look, you did so in an exceptionally lackadaisical manner. However you want the situation skinned, getting pissy over it when the link was offered didn't help.



    I went to the pages where they go over the features of the ipad and iphone, that detail wasn't there.



    http://www.apple.com/ipad/



    http://www.apple.com/iphone/



    and also the store:



    http://store.apple.com/us



    It is obvious now, but when I went to look I simply did not look at the mac lineup, the comment I read was comparing the iphone and ipad, and I just focused in on those too much and missed the Forest for the trees in that regard. I clearly see now the line on the nano, macbook pros, imac, etc....



    I asked for a link, particularly as I assume you pulled the image off the page - why not just link it from the get?



    I was a smart ass because that was the road you went down in your response, Implying people were idiots for not seeing it to begin with. I think you assumed some inference in my initial request and responded based on the assumption that I was calling you a liar, which I wasn't.



    I had just been to numerous pages on apples site and had not run into the one you posted.
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