MarketWatch:
As soon as Apple unveiled the iPad mini Tuesday, the first thing many consumers did was sell their old iPads.
Two major resale sites reported eye-popping surges in business in the run-up to the iPad Mini launch. Some 140,000 devices were put up for sale on Gazelle Tuesday – a 700% spike from the day before, says Anthony Scarsella, chief gadget officer at the site.
While some people are trading in first and second generation iPads, both Nextworth and Gazelle say that nearly 70% of their resellers are dumping the iPad 3.
How about you? Are you dumping your iPad for a newer model any time soon?
Sold my iPad 3 about a week and a half ago b/c I nearly stopped using it – I have rMBP for big stuff, and it was too heavy for reading. Ready for the Mini! 😛
I’m looking on replacing my iPad 2 with a mini, but I want to get my hands on one first to try out.
I’m still very happy with mine, and don’t see a reason to sell it. Since developers still need to create apps that work with the A5, I figure the extra speed won’t be a big advantage for at least another year (at which point I can upgrade to the next generation).
yup
Meh, the update wasn’t too significant. I’m going to keep my 3rd gen until the 5th hopefully this time next year. Smart move by Apple to move the iPad refreshes to just before Xmas.
Not at current resale prices, dropped almost $150 over night.
The Mini seems like a cool device for those who don’t already have an iPad. Personally, I use mine for sheet music and can’t go smaller. There is nowhere near enough improvement between the 3rd gen and the 4th gen to make me upgrade. If I still had the 2nd gen, then I would, but that’s why I went from 2nd to 3rd. 🙂
I suspect a lot of people will simply wait for their current iPad to no longer be supported, or become unusable because of that lack of support. There are those that must have the latest and greatest but quite frankly I believe they are the minority. I work with one of those latest and greatest guys. While everyone else is content with two or three year old gear, he’s had no less than 5 DSLR cameras in the last 6 years, and has already sold his iPad 2 to get the mini after buying the iPhone 5 off contract and taking a 300 dollar hit on the 4S that he only bought 3 months ago.
Those dumping the iPad 3 today in order to pick up the iPad 3s, eerr iPad 4, will be very disappointed when Apple releases the true 4th Gen iPad next year. It’s bound to be significantly thinner and lighter as they adopt the new display processes and energy efficient chipset allowing for smaller battery. Hang on to the iPad 3, it’s a great device, and certainly not diminished greatly by the lack of a lightening port or A6 chip.
Like Steve said (I think) in one of his keynotes, the iPad “becomes” the app you’re running. It’s a reader, a game machine, a learning device, etc.
I’m thinking that the iPad Mini’s form factor alone will prompt various apps just for it. Hard to say at this point short of playing with one, but I’m looking forward to it.
I love my iPad 2 and tend to take it with me most places “just in case”. I love reading books on it–especially with the iBooks app’s new “scrolling” mode, which, by the way, seems like it will be well suited to portrait orientation reading on the Mini, because it won’t allow inadvertent page turning if the screen is touched on its narrower-border sides by mistake. And because of the narrower borders, page scrolling will be easier.
As soon as I saw them announce a 4th iPad, I put my iPad 3 on Gazelle to lock in the price. By the end of the announcement, they were offering $150 less! However, I only locked in the price for 30 days and after hearing the full announcement have decided to keep my iPad 3. I’d be curious how many others decided not to actually follow through.
I have an iPad 2 used mainly at home and a gift Nexus 7 which naturally became my commuting device due to its size. I rarely watch films or TV shows on my iPad (which seems to be the only advantage, bar retina, now of the iPad 4 over the mini) so I’m selling both my Nexus 7 and iPad 2 for a 3G 32GB iPad mini.
Can’t wait! While I love the N7 size, that’s about the only thing I like about it!
I admit, my initial inclination was to sell my iPad 3rd gen and place an order for a 4th-gen unit. I even went to Gazelle and Amazon to see what they offered, but didn’t lock in a price. After an hour or so of further reflection, I decided that what I really want is a Retina iPad Mini, which I can see coming out next year. In the meantime, my 3rd-gen iPad works just as well today as it did yesterday, and should work well enough over the time frame I need it to work.
Just got an iPad 3rd gen and like it more than I thought I would, but I still wish it was smaller. That said, I wouldn’t go back to a non-retina display for the sake of a smaller form factor – not to mention last year’s speeds. The way iOS software moves, that little guy’s gonna be lagging in no time.
I’m going to at least hold off until the retina display mini comes out (next year?) and then sell my bigboy iPad for whatever it’s worth at the time.
Heck, I got an iPad 2 that is serving me perfectly. I have no interest in upgrading at this point. Probably I will wait until the iPad 5 or 6.
Probably, but since all I have is the original iPad, I’m not sure the new model is much of a factor. 🙂
No. It works the same as before 😉
My story is quite a bit like Neal Pozner below, I’ve got a $400 offer locked in from Gazelle, a $460 trade/credit offer from Amazon (for us, Amazon credit is basically like cash).
I love my 3rd Gen, it replaced a 1st gen (currently in daily use by my little girl), so it was a pretty major update…
…however, I was always a little cranky over it being an iPad 2 + retina (even the quad-core GPU was just to “break even” because of the display). I knew there were better SOCs in the pipeline and Apple did the best with what was available (the GPU extremified A5). I just figured the A6[X], plus camera/wifi improvements would happen in March … no biggie, 5 months early (and I believe October is the new month for iOS, so I don’t suspect the 5th Gen for another 12 months).
I guess for me, the 4th gen was a definite buy and given I felt like my 3rd gen was a retina iPad 2, this feels like more of a major update … the bottom line: I’ll wind up paying $140 for ~7 months use, that’s about $20 month, or $0.66/day for using this outstanding device 😀
Bingo. I can wait until our current gear loses support for everyday use. And my four-year-old iPod touch agrees.
Nope. My iPad 3 is still fine (and I can use all my old port connector gear ;)). I’m going to bye an iPad mini for easier reading to complement it …
I’m going to hang on to my iPad 3. I never feel like I’m waiting around for it do do anything (except start MLB At Bat, but since it crashes about 40% of the time it starts I’m blaming the software, not the hardware).
Not a chance! I’m gonna run my 3rd Gen into the ground before I get a new one. I try to use all of my tech products as long as possible.