{"id":1704,"date":"2011-06-18T18:50:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T18:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2011-06-18T18:50:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T18:50:40","slug":"hd-ipad-3-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/?p=1704","title":{"rendered":"HD iPad 3 in the Works?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A brief Reuters report detailing the launch of the new MacBook Air featured an almost throw-away line at the end stating that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the iPad3  scheduled to be launched in the fourth quarter would have image  resolution 5-6 times higher than iPad2.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>MacRumors has published an English translation of the original Taiwanese Economic Daily News report referenced by Reuters which offers the proposed reasoning behind the move<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Apple dominates the tablet computer market in the year of  2010; In 2011,  a huge number of tablet computers have been introduced  and given a  general threat to Apple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leading status, Apple is thinking  to give an  aggressive counteroffensive.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.<br \/>\nApple, in order to maintain a leading position, plans to launch iPad 3   in the fourth quarter by shortening the iPad Product life cycle. And   also, try to push the screen resolution of iPad 3 to 2560\u00c3\u20141920 , which   is the ultimate resolution a 9.7 Inch Panel can achieve and doubles   \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Full HD\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There have been rumors floating around since February that the iPad 3  could see the light of day before the end of 2011, however a refresh  this early would represent a pretty large deviation from the usually  predictable Apple product life cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Should an iPad 3 actually surface in fourth-quarter 2011 with a  screen resolution as impressive as 2560\u00c3\u20141920, the only thing for certain  is that iPad 2 owners will be left with a rather bitter taste in the  mouth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief Reuters report detailing the launch of the new MacBook Air featured an almost throw-away line at the end stating that: the iPad3 scheduled to be launched in the fourth quarter would have image resolution 5-6 times higher than iPad2. MacRumors has published an English translation of the original Taiwanese Economic Daily News report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}