March 1st, 2011 at 12:11 PM EST | by inu846W
iPad 2 is widely expected to have some cool updates from the first generation iPad, but not all the bells and whistles that most may have hoped for. It looks like one only need to wait for this fall to get an even tastier iPad chock full of more features.
Cultofmac.com has heard from an Apple staffer who is echoing rumors of an even beefier iPad coming later this year, the iPad 3. The unnamed staffer said of the iPad 2:
the new MobileMe service will store music, TV shows, and films that were purchased from the iTunes store. The staffer also said that there was talk inside Apple of being able to upload all your music and videos to the cloud whether it was purchased from iTunes or not. However, they couldn’t confirm whether this will be rolled out or not. Before Apple bought it, the LaLa music service allowed users to upload music to an online locker for streaming to any device. There has been a lot of speculation that Apple would roll LaLa’s service into iTunes to create a streaming music service.
Also mentioned by the staffer is the fact that Apple has had “a number of problems along the way” with the iPad 2. This may be the reason for a more robust Apple tablet being launched only 6 or so months after iPad 2. Apple needs to compete with a lot of other tablets in 2011.
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February 9th, 2011 at 7:36 PM EST | by inu846W
Editor’s note: This article was reposted from huffingtonpost.com.
The iPad 2 is (presumably) still months away, and already tech blogs are buzzing about the iPad 3.
According to TechCrunch and Daring Fireball, Apple may be planning to unveil the iPad 3 later this fall. If the rumors are true, the appearance of this next-next-generation tablet would be a surprise, especially as it would come so shortly after the iPad 2, and as Apple usually sticks rigidly to its product development cycles. Given that the original iPad went on sale in April, Apple would be expected to release the second version of the tablet around the same time a year later.
TechCrunch writes,
We’ve now heard that this "fall surprise" is related to this would-be iPad 3. We don’t have any more concrete information beyond that. But, as of right now, the plan is apparently to release one iteration of the iPad in the next few weeks. And then blow the doors open with another new version in the fall.
[…] But Apple has a history of not resting on their laurels. That’s perhaps the key reason why they’ve been so successful in recent years. And that’s exactly why they strike with the iPad 3 in the fall.
Now, I have no details as to what this iPad 3 would include. But one very solid guess is a retina-like display that the iPhone 4 currently has. There’s obviously been many rumors of this for the iPad 2, but it’s not happening yet. But perhaps it could this fall. Another, slightly smaller form factor will clearly be another guess. Steve Jobs has famously played down that idea in the past — but he often does that and turns around with an offering.
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