Reply to: Honest ipad advert

[TimberWolf]

Not for long - they know how to manage supply chain more efficiently than MF can create his sockies.

HTH

Maybe. They do still sell less sophisticated models of the iPhone (3gs, etc), but I'm not sure whether they still sell older incarnations within a product line, if that makes sense.

[AtW]

how long Apple will continue to have new iPad1's in stock and up for sale.

Not for long - they know how to manage supply chain more efficiently than MF can create his sockies.

HTH

[TimberWolf]

They've knocked £100 off the original iPad at the online Apple store.

Ah. It'll be interesting to see how much second hand iPad1s will be selling for, and how long Apple will continue to have new iPad1's in stock and up for sale.

[Clippy]

I popped in to the aPplesTore today to see if they were still selling iPad1's, and they appeared to be. Lots of people were playing with them as usual and an iSalesman was showing an old lady how it worked. I didn't see any discount prices, at least not ones on big red signs with discount written on them. I was tempted to tell the old lady to wait a few weeks. Hope she didn't buy it expecting to be able to make video calls to her orphaned granchildren on it, having spent all her pension buying it.

They've knocked £100 off the original iPad at the online Apple store.

[TimberWolf]

I reckon in 25 years there will be an iPad 25th anniversery model where Apple will revolutionise the PC market by inventing the mouse

Maybe there will be a place for the mouse in the future, perhaps for developers, but I imagine the avergae user would be glad to see the end of the mouse.

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[Incognito]

I have the iPad, I see no need to upgrade. I've had it since it first came out and it is still the nuts.

[amcdonald]

Yeah, look how far we've come in 30 years:

The mind boggles at what the next 30 years will bring. An extra camera?

I reckon in 25 years there will be an iPad 25th anniversery model where Apple will revolutionise the PC market by inventing the mouse

[TimberWolf]

Look, in 30 years there will be 30 iterations of iPads - so much better and so much faster than nobody in their sane mind would have the original release. Apart from that granny's grandchildren who could have been quids in had it not been for negative thinking of TimberWolf.

Yeah, look how far we've come in 30 years:
<-- 30 years -->


The mind boggles at what the next 30 years will bring. An extra camera?

[AtW]

Look, in 30 years there will be 30 iterations of iPads - so much better and so much faster than nobody in their sane mind would have the original release. Apart from that granny's grandchildren who could have been quids in had it not been for negative thinking of TimberWolf.

[Freamon]

No, it would not be because the first generation model is preferable for antique purposes.

HTH

The reason the Apple 1 is collectible is that very few of them were sold or made. The iPad will never be any more collectable than a Vauxhall Astra.

[TimberWolf]

No, it would not be because the first generation model is preferable for antique purposes.

HTH

I wonder whether the battery won't leak or explode long before then anyway. And if the battery ever needed replacing, your iPad might come back as a refurbished second hand model Or 15th hand after 30 years.
Dead iPad battery? Never mind replacing it, Apple just sends another iPad for $99 -- Engadget

[AtW]

Wouln't a 29 year old iPad, with 2 cameras, be a better investment than a 30 year old model with no camera or HDMI output?

No, it would not be because the first generation model is preferable for antique purposes.

HTH

[TimberWolf]

So maybe after all you are wrong and that granny could have bought a smashing thing for her grandchildren - when they grow up in 30 years they'd sell it for gazillions, and it was all due to you that she did not buy it. How do you feel about it?

Wouln't a 29 year old iPad, with 2 cameras, be a better investment than a 30 year old model with no camera or HDMI output?

[amcdonald]

I am getting iPad 2 as soon as it gets released...

Thank goodness Apple don't make lightbulbs, can you image the upgrade cycle

At least wait till christmas then you have a shiny iPad 3, iPad 2 is going to look so last year

[AtW]

First Apple Sells for Record Price - Tech Europe - WSJ

So maybe after all you are wrong and that granny could have bought a smashing thing for her grandchildren - when they grow up in 30 years they'd sell it for gazillions, and it was all due to you that she did not buy it. How do you feel about it?