{"id":865,"date":"2011-03-05T02:40:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T07:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/?p=865"},"modified":"2011-03-05T02:40:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T07:40:39","slug":"ipad-2-rumors-dont-hate-the-player-hate-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/ipad-2-rumors-dont-hate-the-player-hate-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"iPad 2 Rumors: Don&#8217;t Hate The Player, Hate The Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2011\/03\/02\/the-four-and-a-half-things-missing-from-the-ipad-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-866\" title=\"Steve-Jobs-Y-U-NO-LIKE-SD-CARDS\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Steve-Jobs-Y-U-NO-LIKE-SD-CARDS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Steve-Jobs-Y-U-NO-LIKE-SD-CARDS.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Steve-Jobs-Y-U-NO-LIKE-SD-CARDS-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Steve-Jobs-Y-U-NO-LIKE-SD-CARDS-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the iPad 2 announced this week, the actual product is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipad\/\">anticlimactic<\/a>. If the first iPad had the iPad 2&#8217;s specifications, nobody would have been surprised. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, the iPad <em>is<\/em> an extremely strong offering that is dominating the market that it set off.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/ipad-3-coverage\/\">tech industry covering Apple never ceases to amaze<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonrumors.com\/\">Some<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikonrumors.com\/\">companies<\/a> have\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/\">rumor sites<\/a>, but Apple has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patentlyapple.com\/\">blog dedicated to sleuthing their patent filings<\/a>. Apple rumors even lead to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/tmo\/article\/how_apple_does_controlled_leaks\/\">controlled leaks<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/10\/06\/iphone-4-verizon-yes-again\/\">allegations of leaks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That said, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/\">Engadget<\/a> needs to stop hating the player (Apple) and hate the game (internet as a pageview driven rumormill).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2011\/03\/05\/atandt-to-allow-grandfathered-unlimited-ipad-data-plans-on-ipad-2\/\">recent post<\/a> says at the end:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; which in turns gives you no reason whatsoever to turn down the opportunity. Except for the lack of a USB port, SD card slot and a screen that touts the exact same resolution as the first model, of course.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why would anyone have expected a USB port, SD card slot, or some sort of Retina display? Oh right, Engadget claimed these were coming in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2011\/01\/14\/exclusive-the-future-of-the-ipad-2-iphone-5-and-apple-tv-and\/\">exclusive scoop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rumors are just that, right? Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2011\/02\/eleventh_hour\">they decided to double down on their source<\/a> and blame Apple for removing the USB \/ SD \/ high res screen at the last minute.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the iPad 2 announced this week, the actual product is\u00a0anticlimactic. If the first iPad had the iPad 2&#8217;s specifications, nobody would have been surprised. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, the iPad is an extremely strong offering that is dominating the market that it set off. The tech industry covering Apple never ceases to amaze. Some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[380,487,549,553,557,550,558,556,555,552,551,554],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-apple","tag-daringfireball","tag-engadget","tag-hate","tag-high-res","tag-ipad","tag-ipad2","tag-retina","tag-sd","tag-the-game","tag-the-player","tag-usb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":872,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}