“Apple Inc. is preparing to introduce a new version of the iPad with a thinner design, people familiar with the plans said, as the company works to stay atop the increasingly crowded tablet-computer market,” Tim Culpan and Adam Satariano report for Bloomberg.
“Apple also plans to introduce a new iPad mini, the first with a high-resolution screen, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the development is private,” Culpan and Satariano report. “The new iPad models are set to be introduced in the last three months of the year, one of the people said.”
Culpan and Satariano report, “The planned new full-size iPad, with a 9.7-inch screen, will have a body that more closely resembles the current iPad mini, with a thinner bezel than the current version, said the people.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
I wonder if the gal at Starbucks was the source. She would know, like everyone else, that Apple will release the new iPads in the last calendar quarter.
“…as the company works to stay atop the increasingly crowded tablet-computer market.” Another way of insinuating that Apple is sweating bullets, that competitors have caught up and are poised to seize the market as they did with computers and smartphones.
Bloomberg has learnt nothing from history. It’s as if they believe that any Apple success is an anomaly, to which savvier competitors will respond decisively with lower prices and snatch the market away. They have willfully blocked out the iPod phenomenon, which obliterated its competition. They won’t admit that, and they certainly won’t allow its happening again in another product category, not as long as they wield the pen effectively against the sword that Apple proffers. Trouble is, pens scratch, swords slash.
Right your are Hannahjs- I am especially humored by Emily on their Bloomburg West tech show. She had on a pro Apple analyst last month who successfully batted down all her typical anti Apple lagging arguments. Wiped the little smirk right off her face. Her favorite phrase is describing Apples next great products as Unicorns. Well Emily, it’s not nice to showing your Asian bias in front of an Apple Unicorn.
They do seem to like to smack Apple around overnight on Bloomberg. Otherwise they have pretty decent coverage of the market. But you have to draw your own conclusions because all commentators are going to try to create interest to attract or keep viewers. That goes for driving a stock down and that goes for driving a stock up as well. You do remember last summer when analysts and commentators fell all over themselves gushing over AAPL and it’s certain rise to $1000 per-share don’t you? I certainly do. Newspapers need stories to sell newspapers and business networks need stories to attract viewers. Yet the financial networks are an excellent way to keep informed regarding the stock market. You just have to be smart enough to know when they are full of shit. Either way. Up or down. Do your due diligence and study hard. Don’t put all your money in one stock and remember to take your profit when appropriate.There is no free lunch. Cramer is another story however. He is clearly a carnival barker. I love that video that is floating around the Internet where he describes how to pump up a stock and screw the investors. Release
disinformation to the media about a stock. No conscience at all. MDN should run that video regularly.
Oh look who’s back using his favorite word : smack.
I’d like to stand face to face with you GM and smack you a fat one for everyone here that has expressed the love.
Hi Jim. Back? Gosh Jim, I didn’t go anywhere. Don’t remember speaking to you. Tough guy eh? Name the time and the place.
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I am not sure about this source. I would believe when I will see it. Otherwise ipad mini retina display won’t have any plan for this year. I’m sure about it.
Well Eddie, your guess is as good as anyone else’s at this point. Personally, and just a guess on my part, I believe the iPad mini retina will be here before Christmas. Ditto for the thinner full-size iPad. But this is hardly news either way. Obviously both of these products will be coming before too long. This story has been reproduced here 20 or 30 times in the last month and a half. And guess what? There will be a new iPhone 5 and a cheaper iPhone coming soon also! Facts and conjecture are interesting the first couple of stories. After that it gets tiresome. Enough MDN.
I agree, a retina mini right now borders on stupid specsmanship. You simply wouldn’t be able to see much of a difference unless you hold it inches from your face. This is something that samsung and the rest of the iPad knock offs engage in all the time (develop and tout useless features to “differentiate” themselves)
But, it is something that Apple rarely does. I would be really surprised if there is a retina mini this fall, it would require a large processor & GPU load increase (and power/battery to power the increase) That is a lot of compromise for not a lot of actual (visible) benefit (on a screen that small) Something Apple just doesn’t do.
Until screens & chips efficiencies improve a bit (and allow for the same or thinner for factor as they have now, I don’t see a retina on the mini.
I’m looking forward to a new MacBook Pro Retina. My current Mac Pro (2011) has reached it’s used by date. A new iPad would also be cool – I’m still hanging on to my generation 1!!
Dream on on Santa Clause and a iPad mini with retina Display. You won’t see them both in the next 12 months.
I always amazed on how imaginative those Wall Street anal-ysts are. IMHO, it’s all speculation at this time until Apple officially announce them (new iPad and Retina iPad Mini) on stage.
Finally! The iPad-mini that should of been released.
Should have and very easily COULD have…yet another shining example of how Apple abuses its customers. There is absolutely no reason why the original iPad Mini could not have shipped with the Retina display other that Apple purposely withheld it
Really, ever heard of cost?
Even if you forget about cost, it would severely compromise the mini (size and battery life) for not a lot of -actual- visible difference.
(The screen on the mini is physically smaller so the 1024X768 gives it a 163ppi density (as apposed to the full size non-retina iPad’s 132ppi) so it is already “half way” to a retina and far better then the ipad2’s display)
Seeing as how Apple were shifting iPad Mini’s out of the warehouses about as fast as they were being shipped INTO said warehouses, your statement about the lack of a Retina version being proof that Apple abuses it’s customers shows that you have an increasingly tenuous grasp on reality.
You also deliberately ignore reviews of the iPad Mini which, pretty much across the board, described it as the best iPad Apple had made.
But then, stupid people like you never have any real proof to back up their biased rhetoric.
Dimwit.
Oh, and there were any number of reasons why Apple didn’t ship the Mini with a Retina display, pretty much all of those reasons put forward on this and many other tech sites and blogs.
Wow! Another version of the iPad…what a surprise! I bet that next year Apple will do the same thing again and release another version of the iPad next year!
Come on, guys, this should be taken as a positive rumor. All Cook offered last year for Christmas was empty promises. Will he deliver this year?
Yeah Apple and cook failed to deliver last year!!! Launching the “the” product of the christmas season is so “empty” 😉
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