Today’s silly Apple gossip comes from Apple Insider. The explain? That a new FaceTime-equipped iPad will be in stores in time for a legal holiday deteriorate, just six-months after a original launch. Bull.

That there will be an iPad with a FaceTime camera is certain, and it will probably be there in v2. But the thought which Apple would bring out the brand-new model so soon after a initial one is foolish in most ways. First, Apple can hardly have sufficient iPads to keep up with direct. Only in a final couple of weeks have order-times forsaken to the in accord with 24-hours, as well as with a iPad’s Chinese launch entrance soon, it seems which Apple will goon to sell as many iPads as it can make. Introducing the brand-new indication so shortly would be purposeless.

Second, Apple runs the portable inclination upon a yearly refurbish schedule. Every summer sees a brand-new iPhone, each September the brand-new iPod lineup. And whilst there is no fashion nonetheless for the iPad, the protected to assume which it, as well, will embrace yearly updates. One year is long sufficient which early-adopters similar to me will be happy to buy each new indication, and prolonged enough not to piss off business who feel which their fondle has be obsoleted too soon. Remember the bitch about the iPhone price-drop? Imagine what would occur if a new iPad came out in a month or so.

Apple Insider’s source is “a chairman with proven believe of Apple’s destiny product plans” and says which:

A version of a inscription device with the built-in video camera as well as await for the brand-new FaceTime video conferencing customary has already progressed to a advanced testing stages.

He additionally said which “there was an ambitious pull inside Apple to determine a refresh for the possible launch forward of this year’s holiday selling season.”

Which brings me to the third indicate. Why pour out an refurbish into stores with just one little, incremental hardware change? It seems very doubtful which there will be a Retina Display in the brand-new iPad so soon after launch. After all, if the prices of such the large, hi-res shade were already cheap sufficient to keep to a iPad’s $500 price-point, wouldn’t Apple have put them in there already? The same goes for an SD-card-slot, that I’m guessing will be in iPad 2.0. The price of a rest of the hardware will have to dump before these have been combined, as well as six-months into the product cycle seems to soon.

I contend this gossip is zero though the rumor. If you wish a brand-new camera-toting iPad, wait for until April.

Apple to pierce aggressively upon FaceTime, camera-equipped iPads [Apple Insider]

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