dude your ipad 3 is more than worthwhile for a few years. my dad still games on his first gen ipad
is this your first apple product or something
apple products are a rich man's disposable toy
hopefully google starts getting their android shit together faster, because it looks like android is the neighborhood i'm gonna have to live in from now on
i can smell the rice a roni and hamburger helper coming out of the windows already :-\
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i mean, i am gonna keep it for a while, i pretty much have no choice because i have no money and am reeeeeeeeeally gunshy about selling shit on ebay thanks to aforementioned paypal jackass, but i am certainly not happy about being sold an expensive stop-gap product while they finished working on this
you'll see it in about six months, when games and apps made for that A6 run like shit on your year-old iPad
oh don't think i'm not gonna shit all over this next time we record a show
not to sound like andrex, but the nexus 7 isn't that heavy, dude
i mean, you'd have to be pretty weak-wristed to get tired holding it
apple products are a rich man's disposable toy
hopefully google starts getting their android shit together faster, because it looks like android is the neighborhood i'm gonna have to live in from now on
i can smell the rice a roni and hamburger helper coming out of the windows already :-\
:rofl
no troll here, my son has dumped the ipad for the vita.
I guess his vast brain has already clicked that playing games without proper controls is for wankstains. ;)
(he's playing touch games on the Vita .... he's also a WS of the highest order then. Anyone want to swap an ipad3 for one only mildly soiled son?)
on the Apple front - i'm getting sick of their bullshit to be honest. The 3G i had all those years back dropped in battery/performance with each upgrade as each step added more bloat and more battery sucking sh1t. Downgrading it via hack restored it to perfect working order and fast as well, but hey - here we are, with my Iphone 4S and from the last upgrade i'm, once again, starting to get shitty battery life and slow performance in basic apps that were working perfectly fine. I -was- getting through a day -easily- on one charge, and now from doorstep to work (which takes, say, 2 hours) i'm now down to about 35% by the time i'm at work. Yes, i've switched off location services - the only difference that made was i'm at 35% and not 0% :/ . No doubt a couple of updates later and it'll be a crawling sack of shit but - hey - you can effectively update for free* to the Iphone 5s (locked in for another 2 year contract)
Meh, time to just jailbreak and take this sh1t out of their hands.
Good lord. 65% drop in two hours? Push mail/status updates...etc?
I've been told by an ex Apple employee that this usually means that I'M doing something wrong
What's wrong with my iPad 3 now? Spell it out for me.
Nothing except it has 2x slower CPU than iPad 4. We will not be able to enjoy Infinity Blade 3 and/ or FF13 port from Square-Enix :(
no troll here, my son has dumped the ipad for the vita.
I guess his vast brain has already clicked that playing games without proper controls is for wankstains. ;)
(he's playing touch games on the Vita .... he's also a WS of the highest order then. Anyone want to swap an ipad3 for one only mildly soiled son?)
on the Apple front - i'm getting sick of their bullshit to be honest. The 3G i had all those years back dropped in battery/performance with each upgrade as each step added more bloat and more battery sucking sh1t. Downgrading it via hack restored it to perfect working order and fast as well, but hey - here we are, with my Iphone 4S and from the last upgrade i'm, once again, starting to get shitty battery life and slow performance in basic apps that were working perfectly fine. I -was- getting through a day -easily- on one charge, and now from doorstep to work (which takes, say, 2 hours) i'm now down to about 35% by the time i'm at work. Yes, i've switched off location services - the only difference that made was i'm at 35% and not 0% :/ . No doubt a couple of updates later and it'll be a crawling sack of shit but - hey - you can effectively update for free* to the Iphone 5s (locked in for another 2 year contract)
Meh, time to just jailbreak and take this sh1t out of their hands.
QuoteGood lord. 65% drop in two hours? Push mail/status updates...etc?
everything that could possibly be causing it is off -
i am doing nothing different on my walk in - in fact, even THAT isn't true because now i don't check twitter on the way in.
All since the update.
Prior to this i'd listen to streaming radio on the way to work, tweet the odd tweet, do an instragram photo or two and have about 70% left. Now it's just borked. If i tweet/instragram or whatever then the battery gets utterly f*cked.
NOTHING other than an update has changed. I've been told by an ex Apple employee that this usually means that I'M doing something wrong, but yeah. There's a pattern emerging
Well a Genius wouldn't be wrong would they?
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iPhone 6
suck it, samsung
i don't consider sporks a real person
i don't consider sporks a real person
you just don't know what it's like to be the bad man.
i always found john tv's nintendo apologism really grating for some reason, like he actually KNEW better but chose to indulge it nonetheless
I agree. Jaded cynism has its place on the Internet, but its gotten a bit old. Not everyone is a curmudgeon.
I agree. Jaded cynism has its place on the Internet, but its gotten a bit old. Not everyone is a curmudgeon.
I think jadedness, cynicism, passive aggressive behavior, and sarcasm are basically easy ways out. There's nothing wrong with liking something and experiencing joy. People are too afraid that someone else will make fun of them for it.
PC Mag: Why Angry iPad 3 Owners Are Being Stupid
The most ridiculous tech meme of the day is "angry iPad 3 owners." You started seeing them on Twitter as soon as the fourth-gen iPad was announced. They're the fatally confused folks who think that just because Apple gave its tablet computer a spec bump, somehow it launched a remote kill switch and turned all of their existing devices to useless piles of slag.
The insane idea is that every Apple product buyer gets a magical yearlong period during which they are a special snowflake with the Best Device Ever. First of all, they never were. Second of all, welcome to the real world. In the real world, device makers rev products all the time. How many times has Samsung revved its phone lineup this year? Can that even be counted?
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So what do the iPad 3 whiners want? I don't think $100 would satisfy them, because their complaints are more existential. Do they want Apple to not release new products so existing device owners can get some sort of exclusive period knowing that they have the absolute hottest gadget on the block? Do they understand how absurd that is?
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Complaints about fast product cycles are valid if the fast product cycle makes older products obsolete. But that's just not the case with the iPad 3, which will be well-supported for at least the next two years. It is not "obsolete," "old" or "out of date."
As an iPad 3 owner, you don't have to worry about case makers abandoning it, because it's the same size and shape as the fourth-gen. And you don't have to worry about app developers supporting it, because two of the three iPads still being sold (the $399 iPad 2 and the iPad mini) use the same A5 CPU (albeit without the "X" graphics acceleration) as the third-gen iPad.
Apple's trying to move away from the 30-pin dock connector, but that will take years. The iPhone 4S, iPhone 4 and iPad 2, all currently on sale, all use the 30-pin connector, ensuring 30-pin accessories for the future.
So the iPad 3 will have tons of cases. The iPad 3 will have tons of apps. It will have tons of accessories. All it is missing is special-magic-snowflake-bestness.
I agree. Jaded cynism has its place on the Internet, but its gotten a bit old. Not everyone is a curmudgeon.
I think jadedness, cynicism, passive aggressive behavior, and sarcasm are basically easy ways out. There's nothing wrong with liking something and experiencing joy. People are too afraid that someone else will make fun of them for it.
if you enjoy something as much as an adult as you did as a kid, i will mock you.
You sure seem to enjoy mocking...
I agree. Jaded cynism has its place on the Internet, but its gotten a bit old. Not everyone is a curmudgeon.
I think jadedness, cynicism, passive aggressive behavior, and sarcasm are basically easy ways out. There's nothing wrong with liking something and experiencing joy. People are too afraid that someone else will make fun of them for it.
if you enjoy something as much as an adult as you did as a kid, i will mock you.
Good call Van Cruncheon. But I've noticed my IPad 3 having serious home button issues. Sometimes it just doesn't work, and it really suggests justified anger.
I bought an iPad 3 last month. I don't feel burned that they announced iPad 4, but I do think they've failed to consider the consequences of this acceleration, in the minds of consumers. 6 months? Really? People who are on the fence about purchases will feel more justified in waiting.
This should have been the iPad 3S, as someone earlier mentioned. It's not like the iPhone 4S sold less because it wasn't numbered "5."
I bought an iPad 3 last month. I don't feel burned that they announced iPad 4, but I do think they've failed to consider the consequences of this acceleration, in the minds of consumers. 6 months? Really? People who are on the fence about purchases will feel more justified in waiting.
This should have been the iPad 3S, as someone earlier mentioned. It's not like the iPhone 4S sold less because it wasn't numbered "5."
The spring 2012 model was not called 3, and I don't think this one is called 4.
I bought an iPad 3 last month. I don't feel burned that they announced iPad 4, but I do think they've failed to consider the consequences of this acceleration, in the minds of consumers. 6 months? Really? People who are on the fence about purchases will feel more justified in waiting.
This should have been the iPad 3S, as someone earlier mentioned. It's not like the iPhone 4S sold less because it wasn't numbered "5."
The spring 2012 model was not called 3, and I don't think this one is called 4.
OK, thanks.
I should additionally state that I don't feel burned that a speed-bump iPad has come out in the 1/2 year since the iPad 3 shipped.
To the butt-hurt peeps, welcome to high-tech gadget purchases.
sucks that the ipad hd was underpowered, but if you dont have a lot of cash and always wanna do things legally then keeping up with the latest tech is a fools game
Basically, the iPad 3 has a Retina display but not nearly enough power to push it. Developers are going to drop it like a hot potato and owners are SOL.You could say the same for most tablets. We're pushing way too much pixels for mobile hardware to deal with, but boy do those fonts look smooth, though!
Basically, the iPad 3 has a Retina display but not nearly enough power to push it. Developers are going to drop it like a hot potato and owners are SOL.You could say the same for most tablets. We're pushing way too much pixels for mobile hardware to deal with, but boy do those fonts look smooth, though!
Basically, the iPad 3 has a Retina display but not nearly enough power to push it. Developers are going to drop it like a hot potato and owners are SOL.You could say the same for most tablets. We're pushing way too much pixels for mobile hardware to deal with, but boy do those fonts look smooth, though!
Resolution scales:
iPad2=1/4 iPad3=1/4 iPad4
GPU power scales:
iPad=1/2 iPad3=1/4 iPad4
The problem is that it makes the most sense to try and get iPad2 and 4 to run well at their native resolutions and just let the iPad3 upscale the iPad2 res. This really only applies to the graphically intensive games and apps, and I'm guessing the iPhone 4S didn't make apps run like shit on the iPhone 4.
I own an iPad 3 and I just don't understand what you upset owners thought you were entitled to. Future proof tech?
I own an iPad 3 and I just don't understand what you upset owners thought you were entitled to. Future proof tech?
You don't think this upgraded version, six months later, came too quickly?
I own an iPad 3 and I just don't understand what you upset owners thought you were entitled to. Future proof tech?
You don't think this upgraded version, six months later, came too quickly?
No, it's natural. It happens all the time with PCs and phones and girlfriends.
I own an iPad 3 and I just don't understand what you upset owners thought you were entitled to. Future proof tech?
You don't think this upgraded version, six months later, came too quickly?
No, it's natural. It happens all the time with PCs and phones and girlfriends.
my girlfriends always come too quickly :(
I hear that's hard to do when his wife is yelling at him beside the bed.I own an iPad 3 and I just don't understand what you upset owners thought you were entitled to. Future proof tech?
You don't think this upgraded version, six months later, came too quickly?
No, it's natural. It happens all the time with PCs and phones and girlfriends.
my girlfriends always come too quickly :(
Borys's don't come quickly enough. :(