Leander Kahney reports for Cult of Mac, “We’ve received some tidbits of information about the iPad 2 launch tomorrow from an Apple staffer:”
• MobileMe is being revamped with cloud storage features.
• The iPad 2 is a ho-hum update. It’s more of a speed bump than a redesign.
• The iPad 3 is the one to get excited about, and it’s on track for release later this year.
Kahney reports, “The Apple staffer, who asked to remain anonymous for obvious reasons, said the new MobileMe service will store music, TV shows, and films that were purchased from the iTunes store.”
Read more in the full article here.
no, wait ipad 4 is on the way !!! what´s a bieber?
So an Apple “staffer” says the iPad 3 is going to be the one to get excited about? Who is this guy and when is he getting fired? I’d make an educated guess that the iPad 3 ISN’T coming out this year.., and this “staffer” will be fired later in this year when Apple finds out who this turd is.
“• The iPad 3 is the one to get excited about, and it’s on track for release later this year.”
or “DON’T BUY THIS ONE!”
Exactly. That’s what Apple wants right? People to delay their purchases for 6 months?
iPad2 demo video has been leaked:
Enjoy.
The Chief
Ha! Funny.
Photo! lol.
Yes, this is funny and very well done.
Love it!
I will never be able to hear someone say “press harder” without giggling uncontrollably
Will MobileMe be free? I doubt I’d use it if it still has a fee to use it.
No, and don’t buy it!
Wait for MobileMe III this Fall……
Now that was funny 🙂
What is this obsession with wanting MobileMe to be free? If you want free and sell-your-data-to-the-highest-bidder, you’ve already got Google. I greatly prefer to have a normal paying-customer relationship with any company storing my data.
The headline “Cloud-based MobileMe to bow alongside ‘ho-hum’ iPad update tomorrow” is a little odd as MobileMe (or .Mac) has always been in the clouds.
Funny, I’ve been thinking along the same lines. The amount of hype behind iPad 2 is amazing for such an incremental update. It will lead to much disappointment and sighs from the media declaring that Apple hasn’t done enough to keep up with their new tablet “competition.”
I was more looking forward to the whole iTunes cloud/MobileMe stuff, figuring the iPad 2 wouldn’t be very exciting.
I am still seriously thinking the ipad2 will be running osx
I mean what does march come in as?
why do you think the ipad is getting a Basel that is the same color as a macbook
why do you think they added all those multitouch gestures, fullscreen apps, and app store to osx?
where are the ios5 rumors?
think about it…..
stephen……………………..
ok, you’re new to the whole Apple family right?
……………there’s gotta be a reason;
anyway, no stephen iPad 2 will not be using the version of OS X found on laptops and desktops. It will be using the version of OS X designed for mobile devices. The one now on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
It will lead to much disappointment and sighs from the media declaring that Apple hasn’t done enough to keep up with their new tablet “competition.”
Yeah, and then the thing will fly off the shelves and bury the competition even deeper. “The media” loves to ho-hum and pooh-pooh following a new Apple product. The iPad itself was dismissed as an oversized iPod touch, remember? Color me unconcerned about media reception of the new iPad.
——RM
I am planning on buying an iPad2. I will be extremely p–sed if a major upgrade comes out the same year.
I’d bet my money on a 2.x release in 2011 before any 3.0. As the Pad market is in early growth stage, they will have to have updates quickly than annual basis. However, it makes more business sense to have iterations/updates between major upgrades. If you use iPhone as a model, you can also expect OS updates between hardware updates that provide more “upgrade” utility than hardware ones.
MobileMe has always had a cloud storage component, it’s called iDisk. Be clearer in you headlines. “More cloud-based features in new MobileMe to bow alongside ‘ho-hum’ iPad update tomorrow”
I’d bet this turd doesn’t know what he’s talking about. And if he is really that dumb to put himself in a video and spread it all over the web I guarantee he will be let go immediately!!!
He can’t know about and iPad 3 since no one else knows the existence of one. I think the iPad 2 update will be much more significant then this idiot knows about.
If Apple responds to the all-out attack by rival tablet makers with just a “ho-hum” iPad update, I’d be really surprised. Just the disappointment of expectations will turn many people off. This article seems like FUD, designed to dampen potential sales for iPad 2 by talking about iPad 3. And clearly, these FUDers are pretty desperate – now they are trying to dampen sales for Apple products that haven’t even been released! The only reason I can see for a “ho-hum” update is that the iPad 1 is still selling so strongly that Apple sees no need to give it a major update. But I doubt that.
Apple “staffer” my butt. (and whatever happened to the word staff? wtf is a “staffer?”)
Anyway, it’s probably a Motorola employee.
Staffer is perfectly fine as a plural. Staff is a collective noun, as in “The Apple staff is ready to kick butt on Wednesday.”
At best, that source might be a former “Apple staffer” who now works for Motorola!
Apple would not call a speed bump the iPad2. Apple typically releases those types of performance bumps (processor speed, memory increase, etc.) fairly quietly, just slipping them in to the retail stream. In order to be called iPad 2 it will have to have some sort of new functionality worthy of the name (camera to enable Facetime, A5 processor upgrade, etc.).
I like how he says “otomatically” just like Steve. 🙂
Adding FaceTime to the iPad is NOT Ho-hum! I’m going to buy one for my 85 year old father. It will be one computer that won’t confound him.
Free MobileMe is huge too. I can’t imagine not having my calendar events sync on all my devices. It should be a benefit to having an iOS device or Mac.
Why do people keep assuming MobileMe will become “free”? That’s not how Apple rolls – you pay for what you get.
My guess is the only significance of Apple removing the physical boxes from their stores, is that they’re going to start billing people thru their iTunes account, and do it all online. Or maybe thru the Mac App Store. But it won’t be free.
If this were a “ho hum” iPad update, Apple would not have featured a glimpse of it in their promotional material. By contrast, MobileMe may be more on the “ho hum” side, especially if the overall theme is “the cloud”.
Mobil Me will not be free, I just got renewal notification this morning that I will be charged $99 for another year.
Makes perfect sense to me – I don’t know why so many people expect Apple to make it free, that’s not how Apple rolls. You pay for what you get, and you have a normal customer relationship with Apple that way. This “MobileMe will be free!” meme needs to be squashed ASAP.
“…the new MobileMe service will store music, TV shows, and films that were purchased from the iTunes store.”
That’s a nice benefit for the users without much effort on Apple’s part. Apple has all those media files on their servers anyway just waiting to be sold. So why not let the customers link back to them?