Please, sir, I want some more.
The iPad 3 is expected for release on March 7th, which has revealed 78 per cent of the UK believe Apple updates its products too often, according to discount website MyVoucherCodes.co.uk.
Results also show that over a third of Brits have fallen into debt in their desperation to keep on top of the latest Apple gizmos, paying via credit cards and loans at 29 per cent and six per cent, respectively.
81 per cent think Apple's continuous updates are too pricey and 42 per cent feel pressured to keep up with the new tech.
Within three years Apple will have released three iPads, which is ridiculously quick when compared to Sony and its three PlayStations, released over twelve years between 1994 and 2006. Though, of course, the hunger for technological advances has grown somewhat since the nineties.
Meanwhile, the first iPhone was released in 2007 and the fifth model – the iPhone 4S – was released in October 2011.
Mark Pearson, founder of MyVoucherCodes.co.uk, says: "I’m an Apple customer, and I agree – it costs an absolute fortune to keep up to date with their constant revisions. If it’s not a new iPhone it’s a new iPad, and consumers evidently feel under a great deal of pressure to keep up.
"My advice is, don’t worry about trying to keep up if you can’t afford to. This definitely isn’t the economy in which we should all be trying to keep up with the Joneses. As we’ve highlighted, in comparison to other successful technology manufacturers that release similarly-priced products, Apple really does churn its gadgets out."
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Apple don't update to much, they update each of there products once a year, Samsung HTC Motrolla release a new phone at least every quarter, that should count as an update, comparing it to a console is even more ridiculous as the first year of a console life span, is developers understand how it works and how to maximize, why do you think launch games *generally* suck, the PS3 has less ram but is more efficient , this was hardly ever maximized to start off with.
Secondly if your buying something to keep up with a trend, you are generally a ____ yes it's nice to have the latest, but you don't need to, surely this just shows how apple advertising and market makes people want it more, and there own stupidity makes them buy it without having the money.
iPad is cheaper or equivalent to price to all otehr tablets.
iPhone is a higher quality build phone and cost less then some new black berrys and other phones.
iMac are the same price as a normal computer.
A 27inch iMac cost 1400.
keyboard and mouse = 110£ of the price
monitor = is 900
so 380£ for an i5, 4gb of ram 1tb hdd 512 vRam
look up 27 inch monitor with the same res as apples one, they cost more, so people need to understand what there money is going into before they moan.
Alex Trott Mar 1st 2012 at 2:42PM
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