new york times top 10 must have apps ipad

So are Apple’s inexpensive, newly enhanced iPad apps - iMovie, GarageBand, the Numbers spreadsheet and the Pages word processor. (At least Apple says that that’s how many pixels it has I quit counting after three days.) This screen has 3.1 million pixels, which is 1 million pixels more than on a high-definition TV set.

It’s four times as sharp as the iPad 2 - in fact, it’s the sharpest ever on a mobile device. The biggest new feature is what Apple calls the Retina display: like the one on the iPhone 4S, it’s a very, very sharp screen. Its technical improvements keep it at the forefront of desirability - just ahead of the snapping jaws of its Android competition - but don’t take it in any new directions. That’s exactly what’s going on with the new iPad. In the past, Apple added the letter S to iPhone models that weren’t exactly new but had been tastefully enhanced (iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4S). Really, the new iPad should have been called the iPad 2S. (Why not continue the numbering pattern? “That would have been too predictable,” says Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president for marketing.)

Last year’s model was called the iPad 2, but this third-generation model is just called the iPad. Be sure to ask for it by name: the iPad.īecause if you ask for the iPad 3, the Apple representatives will look at you funny.

New york times top 10 must have apps ipad