Unless you were on another planet yesterday, you probably heard that Apple launched the new retina display iPad. Existing iPad owners, although clearly wowed by the impressive quad-core A5X CPU, increased RAM and the thought of a high-res screen, pretty much agreed that their current tablet is fine. But here’s why it won’t matter.Apple is a master of planned obsolescence. It’s no coincidence that the Apple TV and the new iPad were both announced on the same day; they are both capable of playing 1080p video. With the eventual release of the Apple TV, iTV or iBoobTube, expect mid-resolution HD video to get harder to find on the iTunes store. Developers will use all that new memory and CPU power to make apps that can compete with desktop versions. The RAM constraints of previous-generation iPads is already causing fragmentation. It’s bad enough to the point where my first-gen iPad is useless for beefy modern apps like AVID Studio, which just crashes constantly because it wasn’t designed for the 256MB RAM ceiling. The newly released Photoshop Touch won’t even run on it. Expect the list of highly appealing but demanding apps to grow and soon catch the iPad 2 in its “Sorry, you’ve been deprecated” death grip. Competing developers looking to beat those other thousand apps will do what PC game devs have been doing for years, and that always comes down to pushing new hardware.Add those factors to the really obvious one: that the new iPad will instantly make your current iPad or tablet feel geriatric. CPU speeds will be less important in convincing you that your tablet or iPad is old, but the retina display will make everything before it feel like it should be connected to an Atari 2600. So, we have some advice for those who want to avoid feeling the pain of obsolescence for as long as humanly possible: For the love of god, man, don’t test a demo unit. Continue Reading

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