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Would probably be fairly easy to reclaim a large amount of homogeneous type of plastic if they go down the recycling route. Not saying they do, but if the costs work out in favour of doing it someone would go that way.
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TPU, at least, can be remelted and reused. I'd be legitimately surprised if a company would rather buy all new plastic rather than just regrind the cases.
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But even if you get the shape right, what are the chances that it actually fits? Like if it's off by 1mm it will either not fit or fall off. I literally have no idea how this works in any scenario.
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dexter6 posted:But even if you get the shape right, what are the chances that it actually fits? Like if it's off by 1mm it will either not fit or fall off. I literally have no idea how this works in any scenario.
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dexter6 posted:But even if you get the shape right, what are the chances that it actually fits? Like if it's off by 1mm it will either not fit or fall off. I literally have no idea how this works in any scenario. People will buy it anyway (see post above). The margins on Apple accessories are good enough that they probably don't have to sell that many of them.
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Does anyone else get the keyboard going over where you're trying to type. Covering the area? I'm trying to edit the bottom half of a document in pages and I can't see what it looks like as I'm typing. This is also happening on some websites. It's an iPad mini with the latest OS. Tried restarting, closing the app etc. same problem.. Edit: found a fix. Split the keyboard and pinch it back into place. Voila! Text bumps back up. Kolta fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Jun 8, 2013 |
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Kolta posted:Does anyone else get the keyboard going over where you're trying to type. Covering the area? I'm trying to edit the bottom half of a document in pages and I can't see what it looks like as I'm typing. This is also happening on some websites. It's an iPad mini with the latest OS. Or hold down the "keyboard down" button and you can undock the keyboard without splitting it.
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Huh, didn't even know you could do that. Thanks.
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WWDC thread is up and will be opened in the morning, if you want to bookmark it now.
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What a crock of poo poo that they're already cutting features out for the 3rd gen iPad. I understand 2 generations old iPhones, as those are 2 years old and are on the "Hey maybe you rubes should upgrade" train. But the 3rd gen iPad? That's a little over a loving year old. The 4th gen is essentially an iPad 3.5. Airdrop going to be on the Mini & the 5th gen Touch, both of which are less powerful than the 3rd gen iPad.
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Nut Bunnies posted:What a crock of poo poo that they're already cutting features out for the 3rd gen iPad. I understand 2 generations old iPhones, as those are 2 years old and are on the "Hey maybe you rubes should upgrade" train. But the 3rd gen iPad? That's a little over a loving year old. The 4th gen is essentially an iPad 3.5. Airdrop going to be on the Mini & the 5th gen Touch, both of which are less powerful than the 3rd gen iPad. Star War Sex Parrot fucked around with this message at 08:15 on Jun 11, 2013 |
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:It has nothing to do with power. The 3rd gen iPad doesn't have the new network chipset to support AirDrop. Absolutely correct. The newer broadcom chipset allows airdrop to create and connect to an adhoc network connection between devices for airdrop. Jailbreakers will likely enable it so that you can airdrop when you're on the same wifi as friends, but the Apple version requires a direct wifi connect to the device.
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Honestly the 3rd gen is kind of a blunder to fill the gap between the 2nd gen and a Retina iPad (that would later be the 4th gen.) It's just not a great iPad, like how the 4th gen iPod is a blunder.
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Protocol7 posted:Honestly the 3rd gen is kind of a blunder to fill the gap between the 2nd gen and a Retina iPad (that would later be the 4th gen.) It's just not a great iPad, like how the 4th gen iPod is a blunder.
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Endless Mike posted:The 3rd gen is retina, though. What are you saying? Mine works great. I know. It's just nowhere near as good as the new iPad.
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Endless Mike posted:The 3rd gen is retina, though. What are you saying? Mine works great. It's not bad by any means, it was just a stopgap.
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japtor posted:Basically they quadrupled the pixels being drawn but only doubled up on GPU power (and without a die shrink it ended up with a massive SoC as a result), and otherwise only doubled up on RAM while leaving the CPU the same. Yeah, this is what I was referring to. It's certainly not horrible but it's noticeably slower compared to the new iPad, especially in scrolling scenarios.
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So the iPad 3 was a blunder because the iPad 4 runs faster than it? Does this mean the iPad 4 will turn into a blunder when the inevitably faster iPad 5 comes out? The iPad 3 runs almost identically to the iPad 2 and looks way better.
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Protocol7 posted:Yeah, this is what I was referring to. I think it's a good thing that I don't know anyone with the new iPad and haven't had a chance to play with one. I promised myself I would keep my 3rd until whatever comes out after the new iPad. I started to feel like I was upgrading just for the sake of upgrading with my iPad, since this is the first upgrade I have skipped since the I got my original. Right now, as long as this one plays KOTOR, displays my Kindle Books and comics, and lets me surf the web I am still very happy with it.
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Endless Mike posted:So the iPad 3 was a blunder because the iPad 4 runs faster than it? Does this mean the iPad 4 will turn into a blunder when the inevitably faster iPad 5 comes out? The iPad 3 runs almost identically to the iPad 2 and looks way better. What abut it makes it a blunder? Its still an incredibly fast device. Its probably going to be the same in performance as the iPhone 4 is to the iPhone 5. Since the 4th Gen iPad is really the iPad 3rd Gen S.
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FlashBangBob posted:What abut it makes it a blunder? Its still an incredibly fast device. Its probably going to be the same in performance as the iPhone 4 is to the iPhone 5. Since the 4th Gen iPad is really the iPad 3rd Gen S. I don't know? That's why I am asking? I'm not the one claiming the iPad 3 is a blunder.
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Who cares whether it was a "blunder"- fact of the matter is there are plenty of people using them. We've already established it won't get AirDrop because of chipset; what other features won't be there?
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So an iPad 4 is £480 and I could probably sell my iPad 3 for £350. Is the difference between the two big enough to justify the extra £130? I know that I'd really like AirDrop, but how much has it really improved outside of that? Especially since I'd probably fork out the extra money and go with the £560 64GB model instead.
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Question Mark Mound posted:So an iPad 4 is £480 and I could probably sell my iPad 3 for £350. Is the difference between the two big enough to justify the extra £130? I know that I'd really like AirDrop, but how much has it really improved outside of that? Especially since I'd probably fork out the extra money and go with the £560 64GB model instead.
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Just note that a new 10 inch iPad that looks like the iPad Mini is going to be coming out in 3 months. If you can hold off that long. The iPad 4 resell prices are going to continue to fall.
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FlashBangBob posted:Just note that a new 10 inch iPad that looks like the iPad Mini is going to be coming out in 3 months. If you can hold off that long. The iPad 4 resell prices are going to continue to fall.
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I looked around but didn't find the appropriate thread for this question so here goes. My Ipod got stolen and I was wondering if there was a way with an ipad that's associated to the same account to lock it or something. I changed my passwords and stuff but didn't have a tracker app on it at the time.
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Odddzy posted:I looked around but didn't find the appropriate thread for this question so here goes. You don't need to have Find my iPhone installed on the iPod only to have the service enabled in the iCloud settings. If it was enabled you should be able to head over to iCloud.com and check the find my iPhone icon. If you didn't have the service enabled you are kinda screwed, sorry. Good luck, hope you get your device back. My niece had her's stolen a while back and since they couldn't get past the passcode lock they just decided to toss it on the ground a few times. Luckily not only did she get it back but a quick trip to the Apple Store and they replaced it for free because I got a really cool genius.
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Question Mark Mound posted:Have they actually announced one yet? I was hoping one might show up at WWDC so I could skip the 4th gen and go straight for that. Negative, but all signs point to an early/mid fall release for the Christmas shopping season. Apple wants to have their 2013 models on the table ahead of time. This makes it pretty clear for the larger iPad in September/Oct
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Can I put an existing ebook collection on an iPad? Do I need to use special software for that and does it come with the cables required for this?
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Biggest human being Ever posted:Can I put an existing ebook collection on an iPad? Do I need to use special software for that and does it come with the cables required for this? If your collection is on amazon kindle, then you can use their app directly on the iPad, and it downloads all your items directly to the iPad. If not then you can import epubs into apples iBooks app, probably using iTunes, but I have not tried that. One piece of software on the PC that I find very useful is called Calibre, it allows you to convert formats and manage your collection very easily.
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Sidebooks is also a pretty decent app for your own collection if iBooks doesn't cover it for some reason. I think it's mostly designed around comics/manga, but it's a pretty good general purpose reader too.
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Stanza also lets you copy across your own ePub files to your iPad, though its not being actively developed anymore and tends to crash a bit.
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Played with an iPad Mini this past weekend at the Apple Store. Absolutely amazed at how light it is compared to my iPad 2. Worth buying now or waiting until October for retina display?
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webmeister posted:Stanza also lets you copy across your own ePub files to your iPad, though its not being actively developed anymore and tends to crash a bit. Stanza got bought by Amazon then smothered with a pillow. MegaReader is currently the closest thing there is to a Stanza replacement.
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trilljester posted:Played with an iPad Mini this past weekend at the Apple Store. Absolutely amazed at how light it is compared to my iPad 2. Worth buying now or waiting until October for retina display? Sorta up to you. I don't particularly care about retina display or anything and it certainly handles Netflix just fine. I'm not a big gamer on it and even then it handles everything I throw at it. It is a little outdated by today's standards but its still a solid device. Only you can decide if you're fine with whatever it has now or if you'll want to wait to get the best of the best.
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trilljester posted:Played with an iPad Mini this past weekend at the Apple Store. Absolutely amazed at how light it is compared to my iPad 2. Worth buying now or waiting until October for retina display? Personally the hardware is so similar I would wait. I have a 2 as well, and I just don't see. The point. That being said, if you can sell the 2 for the price you get the Mini at, that would be worth. Probably quite possible.
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Is there some sort of incompatibility between iPad 1 and iPhone 4S charger/usb cables? My father just bought a cable for his girlfriend's 1st gen iPad, and it won't work, but works perfectly with her 4S.
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Ur Getting Fatter posted:Is there some sort of incompatibility between iPad 1 and iPhone 4S charger/usb cables?
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Cawd Rud posted:Nope, they should work perfectly. Are you connecting it to a computer or charger? If it's not an official Apple cable it may just be a bad cable that isn't playing well with the iPad wanting to draw more power or something, but that's just a wild guess. Yeah, I figured that as well. I'll tell him to just get a new one/exchange it, then. Thanks!
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