{"id":30875,"date":"2012-01-17T10:40:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T08:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=30875"},"modified":"2012-01-17T16:13:44","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T14:13:44","slug":"ipad-3-supposedly-launching-in-march-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/30875-ipad-3-supposedly-launching-in-march-2012","title":{"rendered":"iPad 3 supposedly launching in March 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The internet is ablaze with claims that <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20713-Apple-Inc\">Apple<\/a>\u2019s next generation tablet PC, the <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20717-Apple-iPad\">iPad<\/a> 3, will be released in March 2012. The new iPad will supposedly have a higher resolution screen and a quad-core processor, according to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>Apple\u2019s new tablet will also reportedly support next-generation LTE networks.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg attributes its sources to three unnamed people who are supposedly familiar with the product. Apparently Apple\u2019s manufacturing partners in Asia began ramping up production of the iPad 3 this month, and full volumes are expected to be reached by February.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook believes that the iPad 3 is just what Apple needs to fend of mounting competition from other tablet makers such as Samsung and Blackberry.<\/p>\n<p>To date Apple has sold over 40 million iPads, generating at least $25.3 billion in revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, Apple does not comment on rumour and speculation, and this report remains firmly fixed in rumour and speculation territory.<\/p>\n<p>Having said that, the iPad 3 was predicted early this year, so there is most likely some truth to the reports.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-01-13\/apple-said-to-prepare-march-ipad-3-debut-with-sharper-screen-faster-chip.html \" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quad-core CPU, higher resolution screen, LTE support incoming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":30876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,959,1845],"class_list":["post-30875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-apple","tag-ipad-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30884,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30875\/revisions\/30884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}