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Apple (AAPL) apparently goes after enterprise users, announcing the release of the 128GB version...
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Tuesday, January 29, 8:54 AM ETApple (AAPL) apparently goes after enterprise users, announcing the release of the 128GB version of the 4th generation iPad with Retina display (available Feb. 5 for $799). Whither the MacBook Pro? Shares +1% premarket. (PR)
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I'll take one for me and 37 more for the office staff.
Apple's A6X is about as fast as a PC processor from 2002-2003.
http://ars.to/TRXkF1
i5 is ~4-6x faster.
'To our surprise, the W700 lasted just shy of six hours in general use with the screen brightness cranked'
This i5 is 'old' Ivy Bridge 17W chip
Probably better just to design a tight machine and let idiots argue over the specs.
The 8088 runs voyager, industrial control computers, and your XT/64 ipm bc.
The Zilog z80 runs the damn space shuttle, robotic space probes and your nintendo 8 bit.
The point of the ARM/A6 chip is,
1. lighter
2. thinner
3. battery life
The article that Matt-Man presents says, "These numbers basically sum up the Intel-versus-ARM debate all by themselves: Intel's fastest silicon is massively faster than the best that ARM SoCs can offer, but ARM enables much thinner and lighter tablets than Ivy Bridge."
And later the article mentioned the "dismal" battery life of i5 devices but did not say what the iPad brings to the table, convenient, very. Here it is: instead of 4-5 hours with the iPad powered by a A6 a user gets 10-12 hours, ouch!
So again, the point of Apple going with the A6 is not to put a "whuppin'" on the i5 rather to benefit the user who wants to use that awesome retina display to surf & stream!
Seriously, this is how AAPL permabulls think.
sic business. A lot of businesses don't care about $800.
-Matt
Speaking with my system administrator brother-in-law, he said what is the need for this IPad 128G since everything is on the cloud now.
Then I read your comment on networked community, and it can't make me help but think is Apple in trouble?
Tim Cook did not deliver on his implicit 2012 promise that the Company would be delivering the absolute amazing!
Has the Jobs Aura gone? Will Apple slip into marginality?
This could be an explanation of the continual sliding of AAPL.
The need for 128G is most evident when you are using an app that is RAM intensive. Many of the apps I use run much faster because resources are stored on the iPad - in flash.
Here's the thing, Apple's multitasking gives developers the choice to turn it on or not, to be active or in a suspended state or not. The paradigm is built around battery life. This capability was fully rolled out with the introduction of iOS4 in 2010, thereabouts.
Android just happens to have a different paradigm and gives the user more control of battery life.
Now Androids implementation of simultaneous live windows is pretty cool, of course it's just eye candy, a user can't possibly use two windows simultaneously, eh?! But it is the most obvious use of the larger screen, Go Android! Obviously some multitasking is simultaneous, say using voice and searching address book at the same time. But IMHO one can only focus on one or the other task.
The 128 implications are enormous.
What a joke.
anyway, what's the risk of offering this?
Reading your commetns, it's clear you are a closet Apple-basher. You crap on everything Apple does, but claim vehemently you are not a basher. You should just come out of the closet on that, really there's no shame there. Have a party.
I'm sure Apple has a market for these 128G iPads.
Where's the SD card slot giving consumers an economical choice? Oh but you could get adapters essentially blowing more money on what should be standard.
$799? How is this a smart choice for a device that relies on a closed ecosystem (large one and growing, yes) and the OS isn't even a full version. A cellular-enabled version of the higher-capacity iPad costs $929.
No wonder AAPL isn't coming out with a TV, they would ask the price of a slightly used mid 2000s Kia.
To the readers rolling their eyes at negative comments about this launch, clearly this move was defensive due to the Surface Pro launching soon.
For simply an increase in storage, which is cheap nowadays, AAPL sure thinks it can squeeze the consumer who's ignorant about what other tablets offer.
better screen resolution.
The courts feel differently
that said, i don't see this as huge news by itself and speculate that the move is undergirded by a sense that hey, we didnt' see this coming, and maybe, just maybe, the people in Cupertino aren't (just) sitting around playing Angry Birds all day but working on other stuff we don't know about, at least some which may be more meaningful than a memory upgrade.
they should go balls out and offer a 256gb version.
http://zd.net/12En8ae