iPad 3 announcement in one hour

[Rath]

famousringo said:

Rath said:
Screen is impressive, getting that high a pixel density on a screen that large.

However colour me underwhelmed by the new iPad, there doesn't seem to be anything innovative about it at all in terms of software, hardware or aesthetics.

Big iOS updates only come once per year, and it's always for the iPhone. Previous iPads didn't bring new iOS features, so I'm not sure why you'd expect them now. However, previous iPads arrived with new iWork and iLife apps, and so did this one. The new iPhoto app is really quite good. I'd even go so far as to say it outclasses the desktop app. Simiilarly, the bluetooth jamming added to Garageband on iOS is a killer feature that the desktop app never had.

Hardware? That screen outperforms anything in this device category. Furthermore, Apple crammed a 70% larger battery into a package that was only 8% larger. Until the teardowns proved otherwise, many tech writers were convinced that Apple had access to some miraculous new battery tech, but it turns out that the mircale is killer hardware design. Doubling GPU performance doesn't seem too impressive, untl you realize that the original A5 was so far ahead of the game that nobody has yet shipped a tablet with graphics that compete with the iPad 2.

No new aesthetics? Got me there.

"Underwhelmed" is the response to every new Apple product. Somehow, those disappointing products consisently go on to sell twice as many units as the previous generation.

Except for the photo-editing app none of those are really innovations, they're incremental.

I don't know, maybe I expect too much from new Apple products because the hype is always so high =/