The New iPad: It’s Pretty Good And You’re Pretty Spoiled

The new, resolutionary iPad is here. One of the most successful Apple’s gadgets got its third edition and additionally confirmed itself as the leading tablet device among many others. If you’re not familiar with the tech specs of the new iPad, you can check them out at Apple’s site; but what about the iPad itself – what’s new, what’s good and what’s wrong with it?

The first thing you’ll notice is the name – iPad. Rumors about iPad 3, iPad HD and some other ideas didn’t came to be true. It brought some disappointments in the SEO world, but what’s more important, the new iPad shows what’s Apple up to. GigaOM claims that naming your third edition simply – iPad shows that the iPad has grown up and is here to stay:

Apple has long been doing this in the PC space, where its products are simply called MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac and Mac mini. Sure, the most dedicated Apple followers will always know which generation of the MacBook Pro has which CPU, and which ports are present on which laptop iteration. But for the rest of us, these differences don’t matter all that much. We buy the latest generation, trusting Apple that the hardware will live up to our expectations. We expect the MacBook Air to be the best in portable computing and the MacBook Pro to be powerful – and we don’t need complicated revision numbers to keep track of all the changes over the years.

Actually, if you think about it, it’s true. What difference does it make if you’re using the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 or the iPhone 4S? This naming scheme goes along with something we all use daily – cars. You’re driving the latest or may 4-5 years old car that had the exact same name since the first model, right? The only thing you need to know is the production year and if you’re a car geek, you’ll know exactly which one is it. If you’re not too much into cars, who cares, right?

Are Customers Spoiled?

Yes, they are. At least according to the Yahoo! News which made a list of six problems that the new iPad has. Some of them are bigger apps and the time needed to charge the battery is too long.

The New iPad comes with a retina display with better resolution, and this also means that the apps for this tablet will be bigger in size (MB) and will eat up more space. Since this tablet has no provision of external memory, you have to go for bigger storage version (32 GB and 64 GB) than the 16 GB version.

PCworld has reported that the New iPad takes as much as six hours to fully charge its battery, which is the longest duration among 40 tablets the magazine tested. However it should also be noted here that it also has one of the best battery backup time for any 4G device, thanks to a bigger battery.

Oh my, you wanted a bigger and better battery, and now that you’ve got it, you’re having issues with the charging time? You’ve got probably the best display a tablet could have, crystal-clear images with resolution bigger than some desktop monitors and you’re worried about bigger app size?!

People should learn to respect the technology we got today.

The Verdict? Meh.

There’s no doubt about it – Apple conquered the tablet market with its original iPad. The iPad 2 was just a confirmation to that, and the new one will lift the bar even higher. Way higher than the first competitors will ever reach.

However, the new iPad (2012 iPad, if you will) is a bit disappointing. Retina display is admirable and Retina display itself might be the reason for such a “meh” feeling, The Next Web thinks:

This is why some people are so ‘unimpressed’ by it. Not because it isn’t an incredible technical achievement. The technology that is used to make the Retina display happen could only have been implemented in a device by Apple, it shouldn’t exist for years yet. But Apple did its job so well that it feels completely obvious and natural.

“Of course the screen should look like this,” your brain tells you when you look at it. “This is what everything I touch looks like.”

Gizmodo, on the other hand, turns to hardware issues of the new iPad. Heating issues are a problem for a device that needs to be held, and the front camera (made for famous FaceTime calls) is still VGA camera, while backside camera holds 5 megapixels (on a device with dimensions of a magazine):

You have a capable digital camera the size of a magazine. But while the iSighter got all fixed up, the front-facing “Facetime” camera remains VGA. Which is stupid. Because videochatting on an iPad is really wonderful. Talking with far-off friends or family members and actually seeing them react to the conversations is one of those legitimately magical moments when you realize that yes, technology can make your life better.

However, everyone agrees on this: if you don’t have an iPad at all and you’re thinking about getting one – get the latest one. If you do have an iPad already, you might skip this edition. The new one will come soon.