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Aluminum213 said:
No iPhone is worth updating after one year. Next year when the 6S releases with 2GB RAM and A9 chip, it still won't be worth updating.
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Looking at your sig, I completely understand why you are so defensive about your purchase.

To each it's own!:)

Today I sold off my iPad Air 128 GB Wifi for a decent price. I plan to buy Air 2 in its place only because of 2 GB RAM upgrade. Once 2GB ram requirement starts becoming compulsory, (which I am presuming from release of next year's iPhone) current 1 GB devices will start to face the heat.
 
sanke1 said:
Looking at your sig, I completely understand why you are so defensive about your purchase.

To each it's own!:)

Today I sold off my iPad Air 128 GB Wifi for a decent price. I plan to buy Air 2 in its place only because of 2 GB RAM upgrade. Once 2GB ram requirement starts becoming compulsory, (which I am presuming from release of next year's iPhone) current 1 GB devices will start to face the heat.
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Defensive? Lol

I happen to upgrade my iPad every year, but the iPhone simply isn't worth for just being "faster", I would need major camera and other improvements. I could easily sell my phone and just pay $100-150 out of pocket for the 6S if I was desperate next year
 
007p said:
I agree with you on the hardware side of things.

Whats really letting the ipad down now is the software for me. The blown up iphone os (with no additional features) is getting old....
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I agree that some apps do feel a little "blown up" but honestly the first time I used the iPad 1 in 2010, my first thought was that was exactly what iOS needed. It felt kind of cramped on that 3.5" screen. It could finally breath! But now with larger phones that gap is closing.

I still do like in many areas that the OS can breath. They are keeping it simple. Certain apps just need to make better use of the screen, like the way the music app USED to.
 
richwoodrocket said:
No dude lol. The iPad Air 2 hasn't even been out for 3 months yet.
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The rumors says mid next year, there will be a 12 inch iPad. My guess is, since iPhone 6 is selling so well, they probably need more production support, so the release of the bigger iPad will be around Sept/Oct.
 
Aluminum213 said:
Better display? Any higher resolution isn't noticeable with a screen size this small
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Correct. They need to make the chassis of the device beefier so it doesn't vibrate and isn't so damned thin and weak feeling. Doesn't have to get thicker but does have to get stronger!
 
4gb lol, dream on.

2gb ram will extend the useful life of the Air 2 for a while given the constraints that the Air 3 will have. Everything points (probably) to a higher resolution next iPad, but will Apple increase the ram again? Doubt it with their record. Equally, will the new GPU in the next iPad absolutely, positively be 100% capable of pushing those extra pixels silky smooth all of the time? History suggests not.

I was happy with my old iPad 3 for years, but it wasnt the fine balance of hw that the iPad 4 undeniably was. Same applies to the Air 2 over the Air 1 imo. The Air 2 is essentially "overpowered"* for what it's limited to do currently, and I can only see that changing if/when multi window functionality arrives.

It's all subjective, but standing back I think the best iPad's for longevity and useful life have been 2,4 and Air 2 (admittedly too early to judge the latter). Note; I've previously had 1,3 and an rMini (which is still great), so I'm certainly not beating the "what I've bought has been the best" drum.

All of the above relates specifically to the evolution of the iPad as we know it. A possible iPad Pro could be entirely different, but until it exists speculation re: that is 100% hot air (excuse the pun), as opposed to considered expectations of what we've seen from previous iPads. I know considered speculation isn't very popular, people love and (mystifyingly) fully subscribe to incredibly unlikely rumours, despite the fact, aside from the swift 3->4 transition, iPad evolution has been incredibly predictable. Let's not get like Gene Munster and peddle the same BS 100% accurate(!) rumour that Apple are releasing a physical Apple TV next quarter - 5 years and 20 quarters later, no sign. If it did happen, Munster's insight is still about as clever as saying we're all going to die.

*Overpowered in the sense that the gpu is absolutely smoking for the current res, and the extra ram appears yet to be utilised fully. I don't buy into comparisons with desktop/laptop cpu's, hard to compare like for like when so much tablet software is Fisher Price next to traditional computer applications. Please don't suggest looking at Geekbench scores, yawn.
 
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s2mikey said:
Correct. They need to make the chassis of the device beefier so it doesn't vibrate and isn't so damned thin and weak feeling. Doesn't have to get thicker but does have to get stronger!
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Apple making a device thicker?

LOL
 
Aluminum213 said:
iPad 3 then went on to get discontinued 6 months later, the Mini line is already one foot out the door with the lack of update this year
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Yet my point stands.

iPad 3 and iPad Mini 2 were thicker and heavier than their predecessors.

Sure, it was clearly out of necessity rather than choice, but that's hardly relevant here.
 
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Aluminum213 said:
iPad 3 then went on to get discontinued 6 months later, the Mini line is already one foot out the door with the lack of update this year
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Wasn't the ipad 4 that followed the ipad 3 6 months later, identical in design to the ipad 3?...
 
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