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I suspect the driver for the new full-size iPad is the lightning connector. Now all of the iOS devices (except the iPad 2?) use it.
by wcarey 14y ago
I suspect the driver for the new full-size iPad is the lightning connector. Now all of the iOS devices (except the iPad 2?) use it.
- nchlswu 14y agothat's my guess as well. I'm not sure how it aligns with previous launches, but I imagined they were going to discontinue the 2 as well.
- JoelSutherland 14y agoAdditionally the A5x was a really expensive chip to produce. It didn't have the graphics power to drive the retina screen so they just threw silicon at it. It had twice the die size as the Tegra 3: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5685/apple-a5x-die-size-measured-16294mm2-likely-still-45nm http://www.anandtech.com/show/5685/apple-a5x-die-size-measur...
- nicholassmith 14y agoMy money is on them shipping it pretty much for the Lightning connector and beefing the specs up to at least make it look like an upgrade.