{"id":1372,"date":"2012-03-07T14:52:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T19:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2012-03-07T21:54:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T02:54:50","slug":"ipad-3-non-revolutionary-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/2012\/03\/07\/ipad-3-non-revolutionary-upgrades","title":{"rendered":"iPad 3: Non-Revolutionary Upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is apparently the year of modest upgrades from Apple. I&#8217;m not saying that every year should be revolutionary, but both the iPhone 4S and the iPad 3 are more of an innards upgrade, rather than any sort of physical or user experience redesign.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the new features of the iPad 3:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Higher resolution screen (Retina Display)<\/li>\n<li>Faster processor (A5 X)<\/li>\n<li>Better camera (5mp)<\/li>\n<li>Faster Internet (4G\/LTE)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are things that stayed the same:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Price ($499, $599, $699 wifi, $629, $729, $829 4G\/LTE)<\/li>\n<li>Battery Life (10hrs, 9hrs w\/4G)<\/li>\n<li>Design\/Case<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, there is no replacement for the 30 pin connector. No redesigned case. No dramatic new user interface\/experience.<\/p>\n<p>I believe it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daringfireball.com\" target=\"_blank\">John Gruber<\/a> who mentioned, on <a href=\"http:\/\/5by5.tv\/talkshow\" target=\"_blank\">The Talk Show<\/a>, that Apple is focused on gaining new iPad customers rather than enticing current iPad owners to upgrade. This tactic makes total sense. But I still wish they could have thrown in at least one curve ball in today&#8217;s announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iPad 3 was announced today. It&#8217;s just like the iPad two, but a little bit better. Nothing new to report here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[75],"tags":[69],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p123kB-m8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1374,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions\/1374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}