Apple’s third generation version of the iPad, presumably due in early 2012, will have to make substantial improvements to follow a strong but incremental second act.
In July of 2010, I wrote “The next generation iPad and what Apple needs to deliver.” Based on information gleaned from updates in iOS and information coming out of the semiconductor industry at the time, I updated that in November and polished the crystal ball — in my usual purely speculative way — of what I thought that iPad 2 might look like or the features it should contain.
The iPad 2 is now here. For the most part, much of what I thought would be in the new model did actually come to fruition, but I got a number of surprises and also some dissapointments as well. The iPad 2 is clearly a strong following from the first device, but the improvements are still more or less incremental.
In the next version, Apple is going to have to up the ante considerably, because its competitors are going to have plenty of time in 2011 getting their respective offerings honed and improved for the next product cycle.
For starters, let’s go through last year’s predictions and see where the hit and misses are and see if there is room for improvement in any of these areas.
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