Apple’s new iPad boasts relatively modest incremental improvements from the previous version — most notably a sharper screen as well as faster computing and wireless speeds — but consumers proved over the weekend that demand for the company’s latest gadget is hotter than ever. Apple says it sold over 3 million units of the device following its launch last Friday, in a sign that Apple’s business continues to fire on all cylinders.
So you managed to snag one of Apple’s newfangled even-higher-definition iPads. What are you going to play on it? Check out our top 25 picks list, with something for every type of gamer.
One of the unacknowledged perks of Apple’s new iPad is that pre-launch gossip turned out to be dead wrong about alleged higher prices. That said, it seems Apple may have had justification to raise the price after all, according to some educated margin-guessing based on component analysis.
The new iPad, which went on sale on March 16, is all about additional polish and better technology. Which means that Apple’s unexpected decision to call it simply “iPad,” with no modifier, makes sense. This isn’t a different kind of iPad — it’s the device the company envisioned from the start, brought into sharper focus.
Today’s the big day, the one where lines of people queue outside Apple Stores to get their hands on the Next Big Thing, which in this case happens to be Apple’s third-gen iPad.
Thoughts about Apple’s new iPad are popping up everywhere as the review embargo lifts and we head into the final hours before the newfangled ultra-high-definition tablet with a better camera and 4G support hits the public grid. Our review is on the way, but while you’re waiting, here’s what folks are saying around the web.
Missed the window to order a new iPad online? Planning to stand in line for one this Friday? Here’s a quick list of necessary to-dos if you’re planning your very own Apple Store adventure tomorrow.
Pick up a new “resolutionary” iPad this Friday and one thing you won’t be able to do is ask it when the world will end (hint: not in 2012) or whether Google makes better phones. Why not? Because Apple wants to sell you an iPhone. But there’s a more nuanced reason: Siri’s not ready for the iPad. Not yet.
I’m betting that a lot of you picking up Apple’s new iPad this Friday already count yourself console gamers. That is, you have a PlayStation 3 or an Xbox 360 or a Wii and actually use it. And I’m also betting you’re eyeballing Apple’s new tablet and asking “Could I? Should I?”
If you ordered one of Apple’s new iPads hoping to beat the store crowds, you may wind up waiting longer than you expected.
Even if you started out assuming that Android tablets would be the iPad’s most serious competition, you might now be ready to contemplate the possibility that they’ll never catch on. Which might leave you wondering about the one obvious iPad rival that isn’t quite here yet: Windows 8.
