1. Get the iPad 3 already. It's more awesome than awesome
I'm holding off for the iPad 4 next Spring. I can't afford and iPhone AND an iPad right now
2. iPhone 5 rocks but consider the white one, its like a MacBook air phone with its aluminium unibody and it doesn't scuff anywhere like the black model.
Even before I heard about the scuffing I already had my eye on the white one - that metalic back does indeed look great
3. Nikon is over rated. Pentax has better lenses and sensors in the prosumer section.
98% of modern cameras and lenses are better than 99% of photographers. It's really hard to find a bad camera.
When I bought my first Nikon Pentax were really not a contender, it was Canon or Nikon really. I had planned to go Canon till I borrowed a friend's Rebel and really didn't like it. The menu system just did not suit me. I found the Nikons a lot nicer to use, so that's what I bought. Once you commit to a DSLR company you are committed for a long time because the real investment is in lenses, not bodies. Nikon would have to colossally fuck up for me to even consider ditching all my lenses and accessories and starting all over again.
Bottom line - Nikon make good cameras which I enjoy using and which give me great results.
Apple maps is the crappiest crap in the world ever. I'd avoid it entirely if Siri didn't use it. Steve would never have let that outta the door. He's been dead a year, I'm pretty sure he'd either ensure it was properly baked or it didn't leave Cupertino at all.
Well - I guess it depends on where you live, because in many parts of Ireland it's a massive improvement over the Google stuff. The fact that it's vector based means it can do a lot more caching and works great when you're in areas with spotty coverage, much much better than the old app which just showed you a pin in a landscape of grey squares! The only way to improve the data is to let people at it. Each time someone clicks that report problem button the data gets better. The app is great, and the data is only gonna get better and better. Google where preventing Apple from doing turn by turn and using vector tiles, so Apple have a grand total of zero choice. Google had them by the short and curlies, and no matter when they jumped, the transition was always gonna be bumpy. Given how Steve declared thermo nuclear war on Google, he would never waited another year to give people turn by turn, he would have released it too.
Mark my words, 6 months from now all this mapocalypse stuff will look very foolish indeed.
Also - Google's data is FAR from perfect. This week I needed to find the location of a European embassy in Dublin. I put it into Maps on iOS6 and was told it didn't know where it is. You'd think that was bad, but, I then put it into Google Maps, and it did something WORSE - it gave me the WRONG location!
Also the abomination aka iPad mini. Where exactly does that fit in with Apple current product line? iPod touch got super sized at 4' and 299. People actually think a 7.85" iPad will actually be cheaper? There is no money to be made in the 7" segment. Let kindle, nook and nexus 7 eat each other.
I don't get people's fixation with the iPad not being able to share the same price point as an iPod Touch. They are totally different products, of course they can share the came price point! If Apple do a mini-iPad I expect to see it come in at 299 tops. As for there being no money there? What gives you that idea? 499 is a very high starting point, it's outside a lot of people's price point, take a hundred quid off that and you've got a very compelling device, ESPECIALLY for the education market, which Apple would really like to reclaim.
We are of course all taking part in a modern form of Kremlinology trying to guess what Apple will do next, so really, we'll see what we see when we see it.
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