I’ve already mentioned that the dictation feature of the new iPad in Will The New iPad FullFill The ‘Never Beat’ Expectations (Part 1). It can be considered as the handwriting recognition which was seen when Newton was launched and thus, it’ll disappoint the users. When the new iPad was released, just about a week ago, people had high hopes for the third-gen tablet being launched by Apple. Though the new iPad does have a lot of amazing features, such as the Retina Display, the A5X chip processor and the 4G LTE connection, there were many people who were disappointed with what was shown at the event. The way things were handled; people couldn’t help but think that Apple had again started operating like in the days of John Scully, rather than how Steve Jobs handled the company. Either way, the naming and the overpromising done by Apple haven’t sat well with the fans of the iPad!
When the new iPad was about to be launched, many people were expecting that Apple would call it as iPad 3 or iPad HD. However, we all know that Apple ended up referring to the new device as ‘the new iPad’. While in many cases, Apple has also referred to it as the third-gen iPad. Either way, the name can cause a lot of confusion for people. I’m sure that even after 16th of March, there will be people who’ll think that the old iPad 2S is the new iPad and yes; they’ll be people who’ll buy the iPad 2 thinking that it’s the new iPad.
Now comes the overpromising part. According to Apple, the new iPad has a dual-core processor along with quad-core graphics, and Apple has said that the performance is greater than the NvidiaTegra3. However, Apple seems to taking cores as shaders which means that the new iPad only has a dual-core part with four shaders, while Tegra3 has five cores and 12-shader part. The next version by Nvidia is said to be an eight-core processor with up to 64 shaders. Thus, on specs, the new iPad doesn’t look all that superior.
I’m not saying that its Apple fault, or that they lied, it’s just that the way they presented things has led to a lot of misinterpretations.
Either way, the new iPad will sell; however, it won’t stop people from feeling that their expectations were not met by the device.
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