Apple announces 128GB iPad

[frahse]

Originally Posted by afv011

As Scott Adams said, “You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.”

Pardon me for dipping into the vernacular. Damn right!

[frahse]

Originally Posted by 5thWiggle

I don't drag it around - it sits at home, attached to my router - but I can get files where ever I have wifi (or cell connection). I don't tend to transfer movies (I do that before I go), but music and books are no problem.

Sounds like you got a Ethernet Connected Book.
After going through all the WD offerings, I have settled on the tiny little Passport, 1TB, USB2/3 that will fit into a shirt pocket and just plugs into the USB port when needed.

[frahse]

Originally Posted by HansTWN

At least things are finally moving in the right direction. Although market leadership would have meant upgrading the 64GB to 128GB for the same price. That is what Apple used to do a few years ago when Steve was still running the show. Kept the competition in a constant race to keep up.

Could Steve had been so visionary that he realized that he could do no more with Apple and that thought just "finished him?"

How many times in literature have great men seen their grave stones?

[David Munch]

Originally Posted by HansTWN

At least things are finally moving in the right direction. Although market leadership would have meant upgrading the 64GB to 128GB for the same price. That is what Apple used to do a few years ago when Steve was still running the show. Kept the competition in a constant race to keep up.

Not really, from a hardware point of view, apart from the iPad and the iPhone between the iPhone 2G and iPhone 4. The former is the only piece of hardware that Apple has frequently updated and still kept ahead, every other hardware product they've made has always stayed slightly behind other products. This is especially visible in their Mac line.

[HarryT]

When is the 128GB iPad due to be released? Just looked in the UK Apple Store and no sign of it yet.

[5thWiggle]

Originally Posted by frahse

Sounds like you got a Ethernet Connected Book.
After going through all the WD offerings, I have settled on the tiny little Passport, 1TB, USB2/3 that will fit into a shirt pocket and just plugs into the USB port when needed.

Yes. With 5 tablets, 2 laptops, assorted iPods and twin girls who NEED their Disney fix it seemed like the way to go...

Android and iOS apps connect to it when outside of the home network where ever there is wifi and a couple of smartphones to act as hotspots when no wifi is available.

[Prestidigitweeze]

Originally Posted by afv011

As Scott Adams said, “You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.”

I suspect Adams was paraphrasing H.L. Mencken before him, who famously said, "No one ever lost a dime underestimating the intelligence of the American public."

The Adams paraphrase might be less likely to offend self-identified Americans and so escapes that particular interpretative trap, but I still like the huckster's compression in Mencken's original. It seems designed to be muttered by W.C. Fields.

[Fbone]

Originally Posted by HarryT

When is the 128GB iPad due to be released? Just looked in the UK Apple Store and no sign of it yet.

Feb 5th.

[ucfgrad93]

Originally Posted by HarryT

When is the 128GB iPad due to be released? Just looked in the UK Apple Store and no sign of it yet.

They will be released on February 5th.

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/01/29/...-5-for-799929/

[HarryT]

Thanks!

[QuantumIguana]

Originally Posted by murraypaul

You are shocked that additional memory prices doesn't match cost price?
Each bump in memory is $100:
iPad 4 16GB - $499
iPad 4 32GB - $599
iPad 4 64GB - $699
iPad 4 128GB - $799
(Which actually means this is the most reasonable (as in $/MB) of all of the bumps.)

The prices are about what people will pay, not what it costs.
In the UK, it costs £40 to go from 8GB to 16GB for a Nexus 4 or 7, but £70 for the same increase for a Nexus 10. Is that because it costs so much more? No, it is because that is what they think people will pay.

Does that mean a 1 Zettabyte iPad would cost $4099?

[kennyc]

Seems reasonable.

[SeaKing]

Originally Posted by QuantumIguana

Does that mean a 1 Zettabyte iPad would cost $4099?

That is about right for I think I heard that the new Panasonic 152 inch 3D Plasma TV would cost $500,000.
Maybe that will be re-branded an iTV. It has the proper buzz and cost factors.

[K. Molen]

Originally Posted by elcreative

If you're all so concerned about storage then why don't you get a WiFi NAS drive... I run a 3TB personal cloud system - it's all under my control with no worrying about other people controlling my data- and I can access it happily from my computers, Nexus, iPad and Galaxy at home or anywhere I can get WiFi or use my Galaxy as a mobile hotspot... 3TB seems to be enough for the moment and it also acts as a backup for data on other drives.

How does that work? Can any iPad app access the files stored on there, or do you have to store only certain kinds of data? For example, could I store Wired magazine that I have in Newstand on the cloud drive instead of on the iPad itself, and then access each issue the same way I do now?

Or is this strictly to store movies and photos and those kinds of things that aren't app specific?

I suspect it's the latter, because I've been poking around in Newstand and the Settings, and I can't find anywhere where I'd be able to tell the iPad to look elsewhere for the magazines.

[murraypaul]

It wouldn't help for the built-in apps, but is very useful for things like third-part video apps. You can either stream directly from the NAS drive, or download from it to the iPad and play the files locally. I use OPlayer for that, but there are others as well.