There were long lineups of people desperate to get their hands on the new iPad Air 2, regardless of the fact that the internals cost a mere $1 more than the initial model. To be fair that is not the best way to judge the quality of the upgrade, that should rely more on the screen quality … which is exactly the same in all respects except for a new anti-reflective coating. Apple is also reducing their markup, from 45-61% down to a paltry 45-57% for this generation so at least that $1.00 extra in materials will not raise your purchase price overly. The internals such as the TSMC made A8X and camera match the iPhone 6 to a large extent making it a more powerful phablet than the original, so don't disparage it too much. You can read more on The Register if you are into fruit.
"New iPad Air 2 components cost Apple just one dollar more than the previous model, according to the teardown bods at IHS."
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I don’t understand why people
I don’t understand why people wait in line for hours / days when you can just have it shipped to your door. If it’s the experience they’re after, I need to open up a camp at a farm and call it ‘The Apple Experience’ – where you are treated like cattle, wait in line for what seems like eons and eat relatively the same overpriced shit year after year.
FYI – A “phablet” is an over-sized phone. This is a tablet.
Ha! Thanks for the
Ha! Thanks for the laugh.
There really is absolutely no reason to wait in any line for this thing if you own the previous one. I can see someone with an iPad 2, maybe, eager to get their hands on it but seriously. If you’ve waited 3 years for an upgrade, you can very well order the damn thing online without missing anything important.
Uber iBoring is the
Uber iBoring is the register’s review, and it probably will remain so. I wish they could review the actual SOC hardware, like try to figure out just what PowerVR GPU is really in the A8X, and not so much of the OS/features, as everybody is doing the OS/Feature review, and no one is, or appears to be able to, actually discuss the hardware, and the SOC with its integrated GPU still remains somewhat of a mystery! Sure the A8X has 3 cores, but are the individual cores beefed up compared to the Cyclone(first generation CPU cores), no one in the tech press, outside of a pay wall, appears to have the software/programming ability to run some specially crafted assembly instructions and stress test the execution resources of the newer Cyclone(2nd generation cores) and see if the IPCs are any better, or if the execution pipeline count has grown any wider, or the pipelines themselves have grown deeper. And what about the A8X’s GPU is it the one with the ray tracing circuitry on the GPU, or is it the 6 execution “core” unit/whatever without the ray tracing circuits. Well the so called technology press is more like the average Apple Sales staff, no more that 15% real knowledge of the product that they are selling, yes just talk about the gee whiz, super duper screen, and such but no real substantial information for the slack jaws that want the new and shiny, to be part of the iCrowd.
The so called tech press, is content to let Chipworks spoon feed them some very cursory details, and such, but no real interest in the technology side of the equation, other than to register more click based advertisement revenues, it appears that the Reg’s Regio-Boffins are distracted with the stratosphere, at the moment, and the ads thinly disguised as reviews, “reviewers” have taken over the technology reporting world.
“Don’t tell your iObsessed
“Don’t tell your iObsessed iBuddies but the iPad Air 2 is a bit of an iBore”
“You can read more on The Register if you are into fruit.”
Goodness, does your assumed hatred for iStuff have to come across that blatant in your writing? It sure isn’t coming from The Register post.
i’m pretty sure jeremy’s
i’m pretty sure jeremy’s trolling for iclicks.
A lot of the posts from north
A lot of the posts from north of the boarder appear to be nothing more than ads thinly disguised as reviews, or if there is some review/opinion content it is little more than a brief synopsis or news link aggregation service. A real technology press exists, but most of it is behind a pay wall. The ads thinly disguised as review content can usually be sussed out by the links to the advertiser’s store, and such. If the a review is suspect, I will not click on the direct link from the article, and will instead Google/search the subject on my own. This will prevent most any ad click revenue from being sent to the page, and properly register my displeasure at the sloppy journalism, especially the promoted/sponsored variety. Another way to really tell if it’s promoted/sponsored, is to mention the make and model number of a competing product that you think the so called reviewed product should be compared to and watch your post deleted, that is most likely a dead ringer for those ads thinly disguised as a “Subjective” review.
I personally have no great love for Apple, they are a big retailer to the slacked jawed masses that populate both north of the boarder and around the world, for that matter. Apple is much too secretive surrounding their processors, and GPUs in their tablet devices, but the whole technology market and technology world is mostly populated by shills, and snake oil salesmen, that are little interested in anything other than running their scams, and foisting unnecessary technology for a profit. Apple does have some interesting and well engineered SOCs, but until I begin to see Apple presenting its SOC technology at venues such as the Hot Chips symposium, they are little more than a retailer, and not a technology company. Apple really needs to start a side brand of real technology stores, where persons can come in and try Apples products using samples of the actual applications, and third party devices that are approved by Apple, such as drawing stylus for their iPads, and other devices, or Mac Pros actually running renders with open source software, and proprietary software, and if Apple can not do this, they should perhaps partner with a professional brick and mortar store, franchise arrangement, to offer services to the professional, and not the slackjaw.