Twice a year iPad refresh cycle?: love it or leave it?

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pinkoos wrote:
Rumor out today that both the iPad 5 and iPad mini 2(!?) are due to be released in March, contrary to Apple's usual once a year refresh cycle.

If this is true and if Apple moves to a twice a year refresh cycle, how would it make you feel?

Much better than I would feel buying an Android device that first, gets superseded by another maker's latest and greatest a few weeks later, and second, doesn't get OS updates ever.

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modelamac wrote:
Two things will drive the release of new versions & products:

Current capabilities and developments

Competiition - gotta keep them in a catch-up position.

Sort of. In Apple's case, I think a lot of this has to do with innovations they'd hoped to roll out 6 months ago but didn't have the components sourced for.

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Couldn't they just update things processor-wise, etc. without making it a "new iPad". I think they have to keep up, so no prob there. I do worry about them abandoning support for stuff very quickly. It used to be that you could continue using stuff with the outdated os, etc., but as the latest adobe flash security thing where apple intervened shows, you can't continue even to surf the web on old stuff without continuing updates. It seems awful wasteful. kj.

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Apple is being very aggressive in the iPad space. They have real momentum, so extra updates is a good thing.