Apple fans it
was that time again!! What do we want? The Apple iPad 5 and the Apple iPad Mini
2!
Well the Apple
iPad Event did take place on Tuesday October 22nd 2013 at the Yerba
Buena Center as stated in “Apple
shows off iPad Air, iPad Mini with Retina display”, published October 22,
2013 11:09 AM PDT by Shara Tibken, CNET News.
Their latest
Apple Invite Sigil: a Field of Multi-coloured Apple Leaves on a field of white
with a big white Apple at the bottom. Their Words: “We Still have a lot to
cover”. Game of Thrones ….or Tablets…style, as Dear Apple Fans. And based on
what they revealed this year folks, one thing is clear for Google: Winter is
Coming!
This as reported
originally in my blog
article entitled “Apple
sends out official Invitations for an Apple iPad themed event on Tuesday
October 22 2013 - Merry Christmas for making 2013 a Christmas Golden Year”.
Good Golly Miss
Molly! Christmas should officially be moved to October as after that announcing
is made, it’s basically what EVERYONE will want for Christmas! Why may you ask?
Because if the
Apple iPhone is all dolled up in Gold and Poly-carbonate and is soon to arrive
on Friday November 1st 2013 as predicted in my blog article
entitled “Apple
iPhone 5S and 5C Shortages in the US may indicate that it's coming to Jamaica -
How the Apple iPhone will be landing at LIME and ATL on Friday November 1st
2013”, then it stands to reason that the Apple iPad may also be wearing
some new Emperors Clothes as well of a similar Johnny Ive design!
And New Clothes
they did put on the 9.7” Apple iPad 5, now rebranded the Apple iPad Air as
stated in “APPLE
LAUNCHES SLIMMER, FASTER, AND BETTER LOOKING NEW IPAD AIR”, October 22,
2013 By Andy Boxall, DigitalTrends.
I’ll lay it out
straight folks what dropped at the Apple shindig:
1.
Apple iPad 5, now called the Apple iPad Air in Silver White and
Space Grey
2.
Apple iPad Mini 2 in Silver White and Space Grey
To be honest I
was going for the Bread Sticker colours of Blue, Red, Yellow, Green, and White. Then again Sonny Dickson’s website didn’t mention
Gold, only Silver and Space Grey as can be seen in my blog article
entitled “Gold,
Silver and Space Grey Apple iPad and Apple iPad Mini to launch in October 2013
- Sonny Dickson and NowhereElse sneak peek on Apple's Colour Revolution” so
apparently the “bling bling” Golden Apple iPads I was expecting to match the
Apple iPhone 5S didn’t really exist!
But the expected
improvements under the hood came, sans
the Touch ID Fingerprint Reader:
1.
64-bit Quad-Core A7 Processor
2.
M7 Motion Co-Processor
3.
Retina Display on the Apple iPad Mini 2
At only 7.5mm
thick, a 20% reduction from the Apple iPad 4 and a 43% slimmer bezel, it’s lost
some serious weight to slip into its new spaghetti strap dress. Weighing a
shade under 1 lb or 469 gm (478 for the 4G LTE/Wi-Fi version), it's basically
the lightest 9.7" Tablet in the World.
Not to be
outdone the 7.9” Apple
iPad Mini 2 (that’s what they’re calling it!) also sports the same colour
makeover and significant specs as mentioned above as described in “SAY
HELLO TO THE NEW IPAD MINI AND ITS SEXY RETINA SCREEN”, published October
22, 2013 By Jeffrey Van Camp, DigitalTrends.
Already the Apple iPad Mini is outselling its bigger brother by a margin of 3
to 1 as stated in “IPAD
MINI IS GOBBLING UP SALES OF THE IPAD MAXI”, published May 1, 2013 by
Jeffrey Van Camp, DigitalTrends
The new Apple
iPad Mini 2’s Display is an eye popping 2048 x 1536 pixels, double last years’ model and kicking
them straight into Retina Display Territory! And like its bigger brother, its
battery life isn’t compromised, as it still packs a 10 hour punch. With a suitable
Case with a built in keyboard, you can leave the Apple Macbook Pro at home and
take the Apple iPad with you as it’ll give the Microsoft Surface a run for its
money.
This was expected, as
the 7” Tablet category is hot thanks to the Amazon Kindle Fire which started
this ball rolling in December 2011 as prophesied in my Geezam Blog article entitled “The
Two Towers of Tablets, 7” Amazon Kindle Fire and 7.9” Apple iPad are the Global
Tablet size of Choice.”
Samsung, beat
that!
Apple iPad Innovation is under the Hood – More than
meets the eye
If you though
the Apple iPad Air and the Apple iPad Mini 2 merely got new dresses on, wait till
you see what’s under the dress! Apple’s 64-bit A7 Processor and M7 Co-Processor
for handling Motion related activities such as the GPS, Magnetometer and the Accelerometer
have boosted the Processor and Graphics performance by four-fold and eight-fold
respectively!
At this rate if
the Apple iPad’ll gets any thinner or lighter, it’ll replace not only Newspapers
but also the Nintendo 3DS and the Playstation Vita, as it’s also a great
Portable Gaming Machine as opined in “APPLE’S
NEXT IPAD MINI COULD MAKE THE 3DS AND VITA LOOK LIKE TOYS”, published
October 22, 2013 by Adam Rosenberg, DigitalTrends!
Now for the
grand surprise! Apple has added another member to the Apple iPad family, the
128 GB version! That brings the members of the Apple iPad family to four (4),
making the Apple iPad a full nuclear Family!
And what’s a
Tablet without a winter Coat! Apple’s got you covered (get it!) with some new
custom-designed polyurethane Smart Covers in blue, green, pink, yellow, black
and Red for Apple iPad Air and Apple iPad Mini that retail for US$39. Like good
Dornish wine, Apple's reserved the good stuff for last.
For those with a
feel for Animal Leather, their aniline-dyed leather Apple iPad Air Smart Cases
and Apple iPad Mini 2 Smart Cases are sure to please. Bread Tag colours in
yellow, beige, blue, brown, black and Red are retailing for US$79 for iPad Air
and US$69 for Apple iPad Mini 2. Apparently that’s where the Bread Plastic
Marker I’d predicted for the Apple iPad Mini 2 went…..so I wasn’t off that
badly!
After all,
Winter is Coming!
Prices and Launch Date – Christmas and Winter is
coming on Friday November 1st 2013
The Apple iPad
Air and its diminutive sidekick the Apple iPad Mini 2 goes on Pre-order in the
US on all Major Carriers on Friday November 1st 2013 with the
following prices:
Further details
are available from Apple’s
Official Press Release on the Launch of the Apple iPad Air and the Apple iPad
Mini 2. For those keeping score, that’s the same date as the Apple iPhone
5S and the Apple iPhone 5C possibly coming to Jamaica as stated in my blog article
entitled “Apple
iPhone 5S and 5C Shortages in the US may indicate that it's coming to Jamaica -
How the Apple iPhone will be landing at LIME and ATL on Friday November 1st
2013”.
Winter is Coming - Christmas smartphone and Tablet
Battle Royale to Remember
My sole
complaint: No Golden C3PO Apple iPad Air or Apple iPad Mini and no Touch ID
Fingerprint Sensor. Then again, if you’re that careless to let someone jack
your Apple iPad and not have a Tracking App or a proximity App installed to
alert you it’s not on your person, you really deserve to lose it!
Also no news
regarding the Apple Television as well as a
revamp to the Apple iTV Set Top Box, possibly as a Game Console perhaps,
especially as China’s State Council on Friday September 27th 2013
had announced that they’re opening up for the sale of Video Game Consoles as
stated in my blog article
entitled “China
lifts 13 Year ban on Video Game Consoles - Open Floodgates spells opportunity
for debutantes Google, Amazon and Apple to enter the Video Game Arena”.
Apple’s gonna
make Friday November 1st 2013 Christmas Day. This is going to be a
smartphone and Tablet a Battle Royale 2013 to Remember for a long time. As per
the Words of House Stark, Winter is Coming, Game of Thrones Style!
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