“Apple once again delivered a high quality experience with the ‘new’ iPad, aka iPad 3,” Patrick Moorhead reports for Tech.pinions. “While the new iPad will sell exceptionally well, I’d like to discuss what Apple will need to deliver in the ‘new-new’ iPad, aka iPad 4 to keep their leadership position.”
There were some steps taken backward that need to be addressed:
• Weight
• Battery Life
• Heat
Improve:
• Scalable Graphics
• Wireless Display (AirPlay)
• Gameplay
• Safari Multitasking
• iCloud (especially iOS to PC/Mac)
• Convertible Configuration
• Facial Recognition Login (and multi-user capability)
Read more in the full article here.
iPad 4 will be called…..the NeXT iPad….
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/30/NeXT_logo.svg
Dear Author,
I think your article is useless. APPLE people knows what they doing. You don’t need to express your ideas. They are knowledgeable than you do. Stop telling us what they should next. Please write something that we can learn from you folks.
Like your grammar?
Apple could sit on their butts for the next two years and still be “ahead” of everybody else. They won’t, of course, but they could.
Welcome to the digital age, when silicon contains millions of transistors that switch, heat is produced. Although lower voltages help, processor intensive applications make all digital products heat up.
iCloud to PC – Why?, it’s Apples Eco-system. You are either in it or out. You can’t live in Win-doze land and expect to receive Apple goodies!!
Convertible configuration – you cannot please all of the people all of the time!! Yes, Apple could produce accessories, but it’s not the sexy bit!
This is ridiculous. How about waiting until the iPad has been on sale for, oh I don’t know, a full month before demanding more?
Well, Mr. Moorhead does not appear to be very intelligent.
Only the first three items:
• Weight
• Battery Life
• Heat <———This one is B S. Android Tablets run hotter than iPad.
Require a new device to change.
The rest are only software changes. And that, as per Steve, is why Apple got rid of the "bottom 40%". 😉
Patrick Moorhead is Tech.pinions resident Windows apologist.
Ignore him.
iOS 6 will hopefully allow:
– Airdrop between iDevices and Macs
– MultiUsers (not holding my breath – I think they envision these as individual devices, especially as what they’ll morph into over time. Plus they sell more devices without it.)
– Better UI for iPad. (Just got my first one, and I think it looks too much like the Mac – especially Safari. Make something unique to iPad, like sites unique to iPhone.)
– Multi-touch equivalent for Home Button and multi-tasking. (When I’m getting all touchy feeley with my iPad, I don’t want to press a button that moves the iPad on my lap or knocks down the perch I have it on. I want to TOUCH for those actions.)
“Multi-touch equivalent for Home Button…”
5-finger pinch.
“…and multi-tasking.”
4-finger wipe back and forth.
Works on my iPad one too, since 5.0.1 at least.
@Nerd, Go to Settings > General and make sure Multitasking Gestures are turned on.
NICE! Thanks folks.
Hit whoring. Why do these posts get re-posted?
More people pissing ink telling Apple what it needs to do, when everybody knows Apple pays about as much attention to their ideas as a moose pays to a maggot
For next iPad:
– Inductive charging would be SO welcome. (I know it is currently wasteful (see what I did there?), but it would be so convenient. Hopefully there are some solutions in the pipeline.
– Glass thinner, even faster, evolutionary improvements.
– iPad gets sidelined as having reached its perfect form (only ever evolutionary improvements from here on out, like iPods eventually became.)
– Therefore, a new product is unveiled alongside the slightly better iPad: an iMac Mini (not the real name, of course, as it sux as a name). The iMac mini has a 15″ retna display iPad merged with an iMac stand/docking station and bluetooth keyboard and mouse/trackpad.
The number one feature I want (and the one that would induce me to buy an iPad 4 instead of an iPad 2 [since I have no use for the 3]): haptic feedback. This is will be SO way cool and I know Apple will do it right.
Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiCqlYKRlAA
I’m not sure it would be cool at all. How does it help anything? Is there really a problem there to be solved? Do you run your fingers over your iPad and iPhone thinking, “Damn, I sure wish my fingertips were jiggling right now. That would add so much more value.”?
It’s gimmicky and that’s all. Won’t happen.
Not so fast rushing to a verdict. MM84 might be a lobbyist for red light districts. OK…now, imagine the possibilities! 😉
More storage please. 128GB would be nice, 256GB, better… whatever the price.
Seagate GoFlex Satellite 500 GB Wireless hard drive. Don’t run out of room on your iPad®. Take your media library with you and stream it to your iPad, or phone.
Copied from the Seagate site <== I have not tried it personally but have seen this and similar products
The recent upgrades to the new iPad and Apple TV are great advancements – but Apple needs not only to sell those sweet retina screens in iPad new… they need to sell it in another product to balance cost and technology. MacBook Air could get a MacBook Air mini?
I would be surprised to see a 27 and 40 inch retina iMAC or Pro display – to see this occur – Apple will need to also have ready the iTV in retina also.
The competition, technologically, is right on Apples butt.
Android needs to be destroyed – but it will not be. Apple says it is stolen and has no proof yet. Windows vs Mac has happened all over again.
The only good difference here is – this time Apple has loads of money.
That will not be enough to stop the competition.
I agreed with what Patrick Moore suggests.
Scalable (vector) graphics on both both iOS and OSX would seem to better utilize the retina screen. Applications developed both for OSX and IOS would not require iPhone vs iPad fragmentation.
And besides, is there HD video out there on Apple or any site to watch that fulfill the resolution iPad new can do? NO.
So its a bonus somewhat useless. A gorgeous screen to wait until apps are developed – fragmenting the app store and causing confusion.
I would just like to see Apple focus on families a bit more. It would be nice if a family could each have individual AppleIDs yet have our purchases of apps and content synch to all accounts.
STEREO SPEAKERS !!
More than any new feature, I want true stereo speakers in landscape mode. The current speaker is stereo but both speakers are on one side of the device. Very very silly design. The audio quality of the device is amazing and it would be best in stereo.
Every notebook and even netbooks have a left and right speaker. If you think about it it’s really strange it wasn’t stereo from the beginning.
Also, FCOL MOVE the freaking headphone jack an inch or 2 so its out of the way for gamers !
ever try wireless bluetooth stereo headphones? I use a set with my iPhone and they work great.
Which one do you have? I’m actually in the market for a good set. of wireless headphones. I can’t even begin to count the amount of times I’ve reached for something and accidentally yanked on the headphone cord.
I think they are MOTOROKR™ S305 WIRELESS STEREO HEADPHONES, but I could be wrong about the model number. The picture on the Motorola Mobility web site appears to be the same.
Thank you, sir!
Confirmed as S305 and confirmed that they pair with both my iPhone 4 (soon to be 5, I hope) and with my new iPad
4. And screen size.
Fill out the bezel areas with more screen realestate. That photo frame look is getting old.
Maybe they could make them 4G LTE compatible with frequencies outside of Nth America.
Why are we still dwelling upon the temperature issue? That slight increase in temperature is not even noticeable. My Toshiba Tablet PC would leave first degree burns on my legs if I wore shorts. Literally! I guess they need something to criticize.