The New iPad 4

As the iPad 3 hooha was releasing, the FT Digital media Conference was opining. Sooth was said by:

James Bilefield, President, Condé Nast International Digital
Peter Driessen, CEO & Co founder, Spil Games
Rich Riley, Senior Vice President and MD, EMEA Region, Yahoo!

The iPad has been:

- A Transformatory product (because people pay), generating 7% of all paid circulation after 6 months (Conde Nast).
- iPad accessible by younger kids (and less IT savvy people) has brought PC to the masses (Yahoo)

And will be

- Tablet is marvellous Ad device - (Oh yeah? I think Ads, like tourism, will kill the thing they love here)

But soft! What goeth there - Uh Oh, the Big Monopoly Shadow has fallen across the room:

- What is the rental appropriate vs extorted for going through iPad, especially if the competition goes away as Apple Out-Innovates
- The Kindle - can it keep up the innovation arms race?
- Do all the Olde Media Business Models travel across to this new screen?
- FT didn't like 30% App store charge, and they keep user data
- Will there be subscription fatigue on Apps?

Forsooth, who will compete with iPad. Someone? Please? Please?

Incidentally, at Broadstuff Towers we did a little analysis of iPad Futures using Moore's Law, I'm hanging on for iPad 4 - see the stats above in our Moore's Law Predict-aScope.....

The only downside is I can't decide whether to queue outside the Apple Store, AppleO2, AppleBBC or get it mail order from AppleZon.com. And now that the FT and WSJ have been merged into The Big Apple, there is only the AppleConomist left for independent comment. Oh, wait....

Apart from that, everything else will be as for the iPad 3. Oh yes, except it now interfaces with the iPTV, iRobot, and iSpy-in-the-Sky.

Update - the breathless reviews are out, here are some updates:

- 1 Gb RAM confirmed
- CPU power increase is focussed on handling the graphics, not the processing speed
- It is heavier and thicker again (closer to iPad 1) to cope with a battery that can give similar life