Last night in which Tim Cook and Phil Schiller held us in a fist from San José, California brought many surprises. Of course, the most remarkable thing is the arrival of new products, we were interested in TabletZona especially tablets, but there was also a product of a brutal success that is going to disappear from the Apple store: the iPad 3 is no longer sold in the Apple Store.
Many rumors suggested that the product that would foreseeably disappear from stores it would be the second generation. Among the reasons that led to think this was the obvious age and perhaps a certain obsolescence especially in screen resolution. Another reason was that Apple's 7,9-inch tablet was going to have the same processor as the iPad 2, which has happened. It seemed illogical to have two such tablets in play at the same time.
In the end it was the New iPad the one who has withdrawn from store of those of Cupertino. The main reason that seems to skyrocket is that it is a product more similar to the fourth generation than the second. And above all that there were two unsatisfactory options if he stayed in the store in terms of the price policy to differentiate the products: put the fourth generation more expensive or lower the third.
The first option is very crazy. The tablets of the American company are already expensive enough. The second option would very upset those who bought the product just 6 months ago. The truth is that with the option taken at the end they should not be very happy either. It is highly incomprehensible to see how a product sold as the eighth wonder, as a technological revolution, has been on the market for less than a year. Especially after being the best-selling tablet ever. But from a consumer point of view, it is difficult to explain why for the same price only six months later they can get a tablet that claims to be twice as fast thanks to its new A6X processor.
Another question that fits is what stores that have the product in stock are going to do. After giving me a tour of the internet, I see that they continue to sell it at the previous price, but in reality, they only have two days left for the pre-sale to begin and nine days for there to be direct purchase. It would be wonderful to see offers but the second generation would be out of the game.
There is, however, hearsay who say that maybe customers who bought the new iPad less than 30 days ago they can change it for a fourth generation. I honestly do not validate them and it may be more a policy of some stores than the official position of Apple.
Source: Apple