I hope Apple didn't take out the home button. Multitasking gestures are cool and useful and all, but the home button is the signature mark for the iPad. I just can't get used to using the gestures over a button. I mean, I can, but I'd rather not. Regardless, I am going to buy it. It's obvious that it has the retina display as shown in the advertisement, and that right there is a buying point for me. Also, March 7th is my birthday.
Could easily have a capacitive home button, maybe it lights up but is hidden when not "hovered" over... There are many possibilities. Gestures are complicated for some people, and it would turn people away from the iPad, so I doubt it's the ONLY way one would be able to perform a home button action.
Yes, the iPad is in portrait orientation. If you have an iPad, have your dock have four icons. Next, change it to the default background. Look at the bottom right; it has the six close raindrops close together, which is the same as in Apple's ad. If you were to switch to landscape, the six raindrops would be out of your view. Because of this, I think the home button will be touch.
I think we should expect the same price. $500 has been a really a great price point for the iPad and iPad 2. If Apple was to raise it, they would most-likely lose sales. They even flaunted how they preserved the price with the iPad 2 during the keynote, so I don't think they'd risk raising it.
Or... They could of photoshopped the image to tease us! Or even have held it upside down!!!!! I have no idea why they would do that- but it's Apple. Who ever understands why they do things?
You know... I'm a big iOS hater, I'm sure I've made that known when I do post.. but the complete sh*t that is the Android tablets (Transformer Prime is nice, but I only like ASUS for motherboards). I think I'll be getting the iPad 3, if it has the specs that are rumored, especially if it has the resolution that is rumored, because that means there will be an overpowered GPU (A5X may have a faster version of the PowerVR SGX543MP2), with a great CPU, and possibly 1GB of RAM. Hopefully the Android tablet manufacturers can pull their heads out of their asses when it comes to tablets, like they have with the phones, but for now, only the iPad for me.
