iPad 3 – More Power and a Richer Experience
February 5, 2012 in iPad Articles, Reviews by admin
There is a relationship between the iPad as an object and the apps that run it. The apps take advantage of the machine’s capabilities and speed. So this relationship is a feedback loop between the devise, the iPad, and the software currently being developed for it, the apps.
Will the next-generation iPad 3 offer as many technical leaps as the 2 introduced? Is that possible?
Perhaps this release will be full of subtler refinements of its predecessor, and rather, it will be an age of further advancements of apps taking fuller control of the technology that is already in people’s hands.
An iPad, fast becoming the epitome of casual computing, has more computational power than the first manned mission to the moon had on board the space ship.
Whatever the iPad 3 brings to the table, massive or subtle, pre-order will be a must, unless you don’t mind acquiring the mindset of a hunter-gatherer to track one down, after the big launch (along with many thousands of others).
Of all the iPad 2’s many advances, probably the most astounding in terms of spurring new apps (especially games) belong in a category that Apples calls ‘Sensors’. These sensing components allow it be behave intelligently when you move it around and hold it in different ways. It can also sense light. Its gyroscope and speed meter provide loads of raw data for programmers to use in the newest apps.
Pre-ordering an iPad 3 may well be an act of sheer love for the product lineage itself. True, the 3 will almost assuredly have more powerful processors, memory and storage space (beyond the most available now, iPad 64GB). Other refinements will very likely be responses to how the designers have pushed the limits of the iPad 2.
Hence, you see the intimate relationship, the symbiosis, between the hardware and the software — all of which in the case of Apple is very exclusive, luxurious and lifestyle-oriented.
But when Apple simply improves upon the basic specs, making its svelte machine faster and zippy’er yet, we will experience even more deeply its many gifts. The 1GHz dual-core processor will probably jump up to at least a 1.6GHz under the hood of the iPad 3. And the current max storage of 64GB will surely increase, opening new possibilities for the iPad as a personal media-bank.
The iPad’s 8mm ‘thin’-ness could not conceivably be improved upon. The size and resolution of the screen, however, may well see some upgrades (not that it needs any, mind you).
Of course, the only way to participate in the culture of the iPad and the lifestyle it promotes is to get your hands on one! Pre-ordering is a very good idea for the tentative launch of iPad 3 in March of 2012.
