Dear Aunt TUAW: Should I return my iPad and wait for an iPad 2?
Dear Auntie TUAW,
OK, so I got an iPad for Christmas. Very excited. Dig the idea.
I have a long and storied history of receiving/buying Apple products right before the update. I feel like a new iPad's coming soon. So the dilemma: return the iPad for credit and wait on the new one, or will that leave me hanging for too long?
Help!
Your Nephew,
Mick
Cousin Mick, you little &%(*&#$!
Your real Auntie is at the grocery store right now picking up the ingredients for that horrible cabbage loaf she likes to make every year to get the relatives to leave. I'm here playing Left 4 Dead 2 on Auntie's Mac Pro while she's gone, and I saw your email. What she doesn't know won't hurt her, right?
Anyway, it's just like you to want to return something immediately -- you're never happy with what you have. Do what I'm going to do, dude: the day the iPad 2 comes out, I'll be at the Apple Store picking up the new toy, and then I'll sell the old one. You'd be surprised how much you can get for Apple products in good condition on eBay. I always take a lot of pictures of whatever I'm selling to show people how sparkly nice and new it is, write up a long description of the thing I'm selling and then do an auction with a "Buy It Now" option at a reasonable price. Most of the time, I can get as much as I want for the used gear doing it that way.
Sure, you're not going to get back your entire investment in the iPad, but think of the fun you'll have for the next couple of months until the new iPad arrives. If Apple follows last year's schedule, a new iPad should hit the market at about the beginning of April. Play with your iPad until then, get familiar with the apps that are available with it and enjoy it. Then in April? Sell it and get the new one, then restore it with all of the apps and data from your old iPad.
Enjoy yourself, man! Be happy with the iPad; it is the "magical" and "revolutionary" device Steve Jobs said it is.
By the way, you still owe me that Franklin from our Super Bowl bet last year.
Happy Freakin' New Year,
Your Cousin Vinnie
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Dear Auntie TUAW, OK, so I got an iPad for Christmas. Very excited. Dig the idea. I have a long and storied history of receiving/buying...
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BEWARE EBAY BUYERS and to the writer, we that shop online and on ebay ARE NOT DUMMIES! An IPAD used from the time you purchased it until the time you sell it will put alot of wear on it, and should be priced accodingly!
For example
Ipod 4G selling almost everywhere else, I got mine NEW UNWRAPPED ETC with extras on ebay for $220 9 dollars, not the almost 400 dollars that the 32gb was selling for elsewhere. The people that over price the ipod/iphone/IPAD will most likely sit on them and pay high sellers fees.
in other words, " i have stock in apple, so buy both"...
December 28 2010 at 12:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySigh....it's one reason I don't blow my budget and try to buy all the latest Apple Toys. You buy one and then a new model comes out the next year.
I am getting tired of it.
Unless you have a Mac computer, the rest of Apple's products are just expensive toys that get outdated way too soon.
And it's why I am not buying an iPad right away.
hmm so why do you suggest this is unique to apple products? what electronics company *doesnt* release new models every year?
December 28 2010 at 3:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyMy daughter has gotten all my recycled Mac Hardware since the Mac Classic and that has made her an extremely happy young lady.
December 27 2010 at 11:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyBut what if u don't want to sell it. Fanboys are very unconftorable with selling their iToys.
December 27 2010 at 11:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAs an actual cousin Vinnie to many technophobic people, I find this post to hit a little too close to home! Nice work Steve-O!
December 27 2010 at 8:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyTrade it in. That's what I intend to do with mine - after months of use.
December 27 2010 at 6:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyMy daughter has solved the waiting game...she took my iPad until the new one comes out. She got an IOU for Xmas. She's happy, I'm happy. (I can always use the one my wife has)
December 27 2010 at 6:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHonestly? I think you should wait for the white iPad.
December 27 2010 at 5:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply"Sure, you're not going to get back your entire investment in the iPad, but think of the fun you'll have for the next couple of months until the new iPad arrives."
I find it astounding that anyone thinks of a computer purchase as an investment. Buying an iPad is not an investment. A mix of small, medium, and large cap funds is an investment.
Spending money on computers and electronics should be thought of as buying disposable goods, like toilet paper. Eventually your purchase is going to be fodder for your favorite electronics recycler. The only question is, how long is it going to take for your computer to get there.
So, someone wants your used toilet paper?
I have gotten my money's worth out of the iPad I've owned for eight months, and that will be even more true in April. I'll have no regrets about reselling by current iPad if I feel a need to upgrade to the new model.
You're taking it too literally, kid.
You know when you invest your time in a project, you don't actually deposit your watch in the bank.
Lighten up.
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