“Steve Jobs takes the stage in San Francisco and announces the second generation of iPad,” David Morgenstern writes for ZDNet.
“But many analysts were ho-hum, saying that Apple’s incremental change isn’t compelling enough for anyone other than fanboys,” Morgenstern writes. “Wrong. Nearly everybody will want one. Everybody.”
“For the same price schedule, Apple is offering customers a device that’s a third thinner, and twice as fast, while still keeping the same strong 10-hour battery lives. Oh, and then there are the cameras, and mirrored video out,” Morgenstern writes. “What is clear from the many tablets that were announced and then pulled off the market over the past year is that Apple started off at a very high level. They don’t have to reinvent the model. Instead, this solid incremental upgrade won’t likely stall enterprise deployments. It’s not such a difference that a company might wait to requalify the platform. Instead, they will proceed.”
Morgenstern writes, “Here’s the real message: Apple is the company in the lead of the tablet market and everyone else is playing catchup.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: It’s always nice to find some facts mixed in amongst the day-after FUD.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn W.” for the heads up.]
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Don’t forget HDMI out. Huge for the Android fanboy crowd who secretly desire an iPad but loath the fact that they do.
I think we forget that a complete new iPad would be impossible every 10 months or so.
As with most devices, and especially when you have 350,000 apps, its best to keep compatibility going over a three-year product life.
My iPad 1.0 is working very well, and I dont see buying a new one – unless a particular task I NEED to do cant be done.
What else were people really expecting? I think it’s a huge update… The iPad 2 is the “iPad 3” everyone expected to be released in Fall.
iOS 4.4 will add a bunch of new features too, I’m sure.
Apple has set the bar so high that people are now putting unrealistic expectations on them.
So is it a few ports that everyone knew weren’t going to be there? Is that the big disappointment? If so, go to Fry’s and buy a bunch of cables and adapters and plug them all into a Galaxy Tab.
My only real disappointment was that, despite the faster graphics, Apple is sticking with the same sub-HD display screen. I wanted at least a true 720p, as other vendors are offering. It would also have been nice not to be restricted to carriers (AT&T vs. Verizon), especially for those who travel overseas.
But as one still running a 2nd gen’ iPod touch (with a small crack in the screen), I don’t think I can wait for iPad 3.
I’m reading this on my first gen iPod touch, running ios 3. I love that when you replace apple products it’s because you want the new features, not because they don’t work anymore.
I think everyone was expecting apple to bolt a periscope and torpedos onto the iPad 2 so they know it’s an upgrade.
By now people should understand it’s all about the GUI and the iPad 2 has 9x the graphics processing power of the iPad 1 – that’s a huge update.
Android lovers can stay with android, it just makes the queue at the apple store a little shorter by 1 or 2 people.
Ipad 2? I fuc#*! love that thing, its what I hoped the Ipad 1 couldve been. Great work guys!
as I sit here in The Bahamas, writing this on my iPad, I feel compelled to go out and buy the iPad 2 as soon as I arrive back home. this is nuts! I love the iPad I have but the improvements, especially where music is concerned makes me (almost) NEED it!!! didn’t think they could pull something like this off so soon—and without a credible answer from “competitors”.
amazing.
in the meantime, I’ll drink some more rum.
Not for me. I’ve already got an iPad first generation and I’m extremely happy with it. There’s nothing in iPad 2 that convinces me I ought to upgrade just yet (great though it is)
Some of the whining over the iPad 2 is downright hilarious. I was reading something called “5 disappointments in the iPad 2” on PCWorld online, and the writer was scrapping the bottom of the barrel. Disappointment No. 1: IT’S STILL TETHERED TO iTUNES! Holy fakaroni!! That big, bad beast called “iTunes”. It comes at night to haunt those who are terminally tethered to Windows!! Disappointment No. 2: You have to pay EXTRA for some accessories! Call the cops – the Apple Welfare Agency is charging a few bucks for extras!! I forget the other three. Other whiners are pointing out such things as (a) the absence of an SD card slot (That’s a deal breaker now, isn’t it? Don’t leave home without your SD card!); (b) Kindle offers a way wider choice of books to read than iBooks (For video, music, apps etc, you can plaster the word “Kindle” onto your desktop!)
They hate Apple just to hate them. And their followers feeling enlightend drool overt it.
Apple long ago reached the point at which it became impossible for reality to match the rosy dreams and wish-lists of pundits and critics. And, yet, Apple still manages to wow everyone from time to time.
This was a very solid update to the iPad. Dual cores, faster graphics, gyro, thinner/lighter, smart cover, HDMI adapter…only the inane and vapid disparage the iPad2 as a ho-hum update
I love the iPad 2, but with less than 6 months of the iPad 1, and the new hardware option not really on my wish list, I see no need to upgrade.
The only thing really interesting I’ve seen yesterday is the HDMI out. It’s not yet clear to me if this will also work on the iPad 1, but I think it will.
I’ll skip 2 and wait for 3 or 4.
HDMI will work on ipad 1
mirror out has been on the ipad 1 Jailbreak market for $3.00 it works GREAT!! I will get the ipad 2 though…. I HAVE TO!! I’ll simply die with out it lol
Android fans can stay delusional all they want. The problem with tech analysts and bloggers is that they look at Apple products and complain about what they wanted. Well guess what, people that buy iPads and iPhones are normal consumers who are not obsessed with how Android is better than iOS. Apple thinks about the consumer. 90% of those that bought iPads and iPhones don’t even know who these Android and Windows lovers bloggers are. Their goes their ego ha! And I will be like those so called mindless Apple fanboys that will get the iPad 2.