Don’t Buy an iPad [Ipad]

Time’s up. In case you haven’t bought an iPad by now, don’t. You’ve crossed the sucker line, and you’ll feel like a grade-a chump when the following iPad comes out.

The basic rule of gadget-buying happiness is this: Don’t buy anything after it’s crossed the halfway point in its life-cycle. That’s the sucker line.

When it comes to iPods and iPhones, the lifecycle is simple to grok: Apple produces new models like clockwork. Every September, new iPods emerge, tweaked this fashion or that way. And every June, there’s a new iPhone. Apple hasn’t produced multiple generations of iPads for us to pinpoint precisely when the following version will emerge, but since it uses mobile guts like the iPhone-and those mobile guts advance technologically at an analogous speed-it’s reasonable to assume the iPad will see yearly updates a bit like the iPhone. Also, the steadily rising volume of tidbits concerning the next iPad indicate it’s coming soon , lining up with a yearly update cycle.

If you’re going to buy an iPad. or any gadget with a yearly release cycle, the appropriate time to buy them for the maximum gadget newness-happiness quotient is within six months of their release. After the six-month mark, only throw down your card in a time of need-you dropped your iPhone in a bathroom or your iPad was used as a clumsy frisbee by your three-year-old cousin. And if we’re at the point we are now, a trifling two months or so from a modern day model, do everything for your power to punt the purchase. Use a crappy flip phone. Borrow a pal’s Galaxy Tab. Just wait.

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