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matrix077 said:

ksec said:

$100 dollar discount.

$100 discount 6 months after launch? Is that wise?

No.

I say it yesterday the new iPad will be more or less a 9,7" Pro, with the kind of differences that are between the 13" and 15" MacBook Pros or the 11" and 13" MacBook Airs.

jonagold said:

jkinsdca said:

I do not support Apple and these dumba@@ protestors. What if there was info on that phone that could prevent another attack.. one say at an apple store in san fran... do you think their tune would change? so stupid these idiots that have no concept of real life.. only the one that was spoon fed them by their parents who set no boundaries…

Unfortunately freedom isn't free…if it costs the lives of a few (or mine) it is well worth it.  Your comment is exact proof why terror is effective.  Bring down a country of 300M+ because 20 people died of gunshot wounds.  Why not go after tobacco, alcohol, driving, McDonald's french fries…I'll take the (non-existent) risk of terror any day if it means my iPhone is kept secure.

Maybe I am wrong, but this wasn't the first shooting rampage in 2015, I understand that people got scared in Paris where a shooting rampage is something that virtually never happens, but in the US where you got the Columbine one, the one in the Batman premiere in Colorado, that other in the Connecticut school, that other of the Korean guy in that university I don't remember well where it was, because they kill on a cause I don't see the reason to get more scared, if anything less, because it has a predictability that the other attacks don't have, and the San Bernardino one is not exactly the most deadly,

I understand the scary scenario after 9-11 but on something that in the US happens any other week I don't see the point of getting scared about it. Don't let buy weapons and you would diminish the problem radically. If in Paris happened is because Brussels is the supermarket of illegal weapons worldwide, so you can be surprised. But drop the right to own firearms and this would be much less risky. And please, don't tell me that you prefer to surrender your privacy and your civil rights than your right to own something that only have a purpose in life, wound or kill other human being, most of the time yourself or a close relative.

9secondkox2 said:

rogifan_old said:

"Nine years ago, the iPhone didn't exist, and the most personal product we had was too big to carry around with you," Ive said.

So I guess Jony doesn't think iPod was ever Apple's most personal product?

It actually wasn't. Certainly the most portable. But your laptop could do everything it did. And better. 

The ipod just played songs. Later added pictures and movies on a tiny useless screen. 

The truly personal stuff: Apps, phone calls, Internet, email, notes, txt, etc. didn't come yet. 

It was the most personal product they got from 2001 to 2007, in the article he don't speak about powerful, but personal. And is comparing that to this very moment when you can wear it as a wrist watch. And to be fair, the Apple Watch is not much more powerful than an iPod was far from its "mothership" the iPhone. than it was from a computer back in 2001.

I don't see where's the news here. A new model a month away, and the most popular one, so is easy to see a big slowdown in sales, even if the Pro keep selling at a million a month rate as the previous quarter, the volume isn't there. It's in the Air, and there's no reason to buy one of those with the new model not far away.

I will upgrade the moment the new model become available. The iPad 2, the model with the largest installed base as far as I know, is totally obsolete right now, mine is slow, some pages in safari don't work properly. just yesterday I bookmarked an article linked from Daring Firewall, I tried three times to upload it, and didn't worked. I tried in my 6th gen iPod Touch and loaded fast and perfectly well, with the pictures and all. SO IMHO, there are reasons to upgrade right now, at least from the people using the iPad 2. is heavy, the screen is not retina and its getting really obsolete.