We Apple fan love to theorise , whether it ’s about who make Tim Cook ’s shirts or when the company will release its next heatedly awaited equipment . For those more concerned in the latter than the former — What ’s unseasonable , payoff of haberdashery not fascinating enough for you?—a report on Thursday suggests thatyou put a pin in the first hebdomad of March .
fit in to AllThingsD ’s John Paczkowski — andconfirmed by The Loop ’s Jim Dalrymplein his usual laconic panache — Apple will launch the iPad 3 at an event in March , believably at Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco , the same plaza it innovate both theiPad in 2010and the iPad 2 in 2011 . A Tuesday , if I had to infer . It ’ll be a pleasant saltation daytime with not a swarm in the sky , the birds chirping gayly …
Whoops . I ’m getting ahead of myself . Perhaps , you might be inquire , what grounds do I have to support this supposed event ?
Well , I ’m glad you ask , conjectural reader . So far , the iPad has followed the formula of the iPhone : The first - multiplication gimmick is announce several months before shipping , while subsequent equipment are announce about every year from the original ’s ship date — give or take a month — and shipped shortly thereafter . ( Of course , the iPhone 4S ruined the iPhone ’s patternwith an October launch , but sacrifice that it was the fifth model of iPhone , I do n’t think the iPad ’s likely to go down that course just yet . )
Like the iPhone , and the iPod before it , Apple has no qualms about let go a novel version of a machine while the honest-to-god one is stillracking up atmospheric sales — in fact , the company has done so like clockwork ever since it ax the iPod mini in favor of the iPod nano . So there ’s no understanding to believe that Apple would just decide to , say , notrelease a new iPad this yr .
Given that we ’re still in early days for the iPad job , March seems to be the idealistic time to release a fresh exemplar : The iPad is still in everybody ’s minds station holiday time of year , but it ’s not so airless to the release of the last model that iPad 2 owners will finger like they get a new deal — by now , everybodyexpectsApple to publish a unexampled , quicker , secure gadget each yr . Plus , everybody whodidn’tget an iPad 2 for Christmas can feel vindicated when they pick up the late model .
As for what we might see in an iPad 3 , AllThingsD passel on to the much - ballyhooed Retina display hearsay , which would bump the iPad ’s resolution to 2048 - by-1536 pixels . Beyond that , I ’d wager on better photographic camera , a version that work on Sprint ’s net , and the debut of Apple ’s next peregrine processor , which I ’m going to go out on a tree branch and dub the A6 . I ’ll also add a dash of my own speculation by suggest that the iPhone 4S ’s practical help , Siri , might bow on the iPad 3 . I do n’t have a bun in the oven the gadget to change too much externally , though there might be some insidious refinements here and there .
There will , however , be one key difference at such an event : For the first clock time , it wo n’t be Steve Jobs inaugurate an iPad model . gestate or else to see some compounding of Apple CEO Tim Cook , marketing chief Phil Schiller , and elderly frailty president of iOS software Scott Forstall share host duty in place of the tardy Apple co - founder , as they did atthe iPhone 4S launchlast October . While Apple ’s executives have a baffling human activity to conform to , the company normally make up the smart decision of trust on the product to speak for itself .
We ’ve still get some meter to brood on all this : Should Apple indeed decide to hold an event the first week of March , we ’d likely not find out until sometime in late February . Naturally , Macworldwould be on hand to bring you live reporting of any hypothetical event , so until then , keep watching the sky .
