The anticipated Apple media event, held in familiar surroundings in San Francisco, has come and gone, and judging by the permanent grid lock on all of Apple's online and telephone sales channels, it looks as if it has left the iPad-loving public very happy indeed. The event brought everything that we had anticipated, throwing very few curveballs and unfortunately lacking the drama of the famous "one more thing" which we had become so used to hearing from the late Steve Jobs.
Although the iPad has been a revolutionary product since the first iteration dropped some two years ago, it has, in the eyes of many, taken a backseat to the Cupertino company's smartphone.
Everyone knows the old saying of "time flies when you're having fun", and that certainly seems to apply in this instance as it seems like only yesterday that Apple announced the launch of the iPad 2 in San Francisco. It has however, been twelve months since the introduction of the second-generation tablet, meaning Apple have once again taken to the stage in familiar surroundings and introduced the tablet loving world to the marvelous new iPad. Tim Cook and his team took to the stage in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and as usual, walked us through the device which I am in no doubt will change everything, again.
As expected, the Apple media event in San Francisco brought the world the next-generation iPad, available to pre-order immediately for mass launch in nine days time on March 16th. The event was handled and presented in a manner which we have all come to expect from Apple, with Tim Cook and Phil Schiller being joined by Eddy Cue on stage to run through the new features of not only the new iPad, but also the revamped Apple TV set-top box which will launch alongside it next week.
Today's Apple media event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco didn't bring us anything that we hadn't already been expecting for the past few weeks. The expected big announcements were made which centered around the release of the new iPad as well as a revamped Apple TV, featuring all of the specifications that had been predicted before hand. Apple also announced that all of their native, and official App Store applications have been updated to work seamlessly on the new iPad’s Retina display, which is definitely something that will be of benefit to those who are about to pre-order the new unit.
Apple's special media event today has left us with much to discuss - namely the introduction of the brand-new, Retina-bearing iPad, which is set to be released to consumers next week in Europe and the United States.
Tim Cook and his Apple team took to the stage in San Francisco as expected to announce the launch of the new iPad, throwing in a new Apple TV set top box for good measure. The announcement pretty much came as everyone had predicted, with no specifications or inclusions to blind side us. But while there has been plenty of talk about what hardware the company would introduce, little time was spent wondering about the software side of things and what the upgraded device would mean for the applications that we all know and love.
The day has finally come. Apple has finally pulled the curtain on what they are calling as the “new iPad”, and we finally know for certain what the device has in store. Some of the more sensible rumors about the iPad 2's successor - most of which were outlined in an earlier post - have come to fruition, and we have a roundup of everything new in the third-gen iPad as announced at this morning's San Francisco press event right here.
It's always interesting to see how our console favorites fare when ported through to mobile devices - particularly those which have been around for years.
We are nearly at that point where all of the speculation over the last few months will eventually come to an end and we will eventually see just what the guys from Apple have in store for the public with the eagerly anticipated next-generation iPad. The actual announcement of the product will finally bring an end to the wild rumors that we have seen cropping up on an almost daily basis, meaning the sources who have predicted an array of features will either sink or swim by the predictions.
