Have Apple Dropped The iPad 3?
It certainly looks like it, if you visit the Apple App Store now you will see three iPads avaialble, the iPad Mini, the iPad 2 and the fourth generaion iPad but no iPad 3?
Looks like it’s gone but why keep the iPad 2 going instead?
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
3 Comments
stan
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Fredrik Nilsson
There never were a an iPad 3. The second iPad was the last one with an official number (even if some people call it iPad 3). See the presentation video for the third iPad and you will see that they just call it “the new iPad” (with a retina display).
avito
You are right, there never quite was an iPad 3, per se. That third iteration was the one they simply dubbed “The New iPad” that had retina display. They didn’t necessarily drop that third iteration iPad. What was done was they redesigned that same version to now have the lightning connector. This is to be consistent with the connector of choice across all new iDevices. The iPhone 5 has lightning, the new iPods have lightning, iPad Mini has lightning, and so the redesigned the same “iPad 3” to have lightning.