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The new iPad introduces you to a post-glasses era of screens.

What do I mean by this?

Remember when you go to the optician for an eye exam?  They ask you to read a combination of numbers and letters on the wall – then using a phoropter they determine a prescription for your glasses, and all of a sudden the combination of numbers and letters come into focus and the ones you could read just become a lot clearer.

Well, this is the exact same feeling you get when you stare at the screen of the new iPad, in comparison to previous models. Do not get me wrong, the screen on the iPad2 is fantastic, brilliant – and definitely not blurry, but the new iPad just takes it to a new level.

Welcome to the post-glasses world — you never realise how blurry things are because that’s just how you’ve always seen everything, but then you put the glasses on and you are amazed at how you ever managed without them.

What we are now blessed with, thanks to Apple is a 9.7-inch slab of aluminum and glass that when illuminated,  a stunning display of light and colour. Do not concentrate on the similarities between the iPad2 and this new iPad because what really matters with this tablet is what you are looking at.

Web pages read as if they were on a high-quality glossy magazine; photos look like the printed out kind and text is, just like print.

What does this mean for the enterprise – as this is my market after all.

Well, the screen and its beautiful pixels will add to the consumer side of apps; allowing for more detail, more colour and more style, however back in the rough and dirty side of employee facing apps – the new iPad is still in the same league as its predecessor – the iPad2. The typing difficulty and inability to use several apps at once can be very debilitating, especially when employees are expected to work their hardest throughout the day. While the battery life and versatility is definitely a yay, most enterprises will probably find it difficult to seriously convert the non believers from moving onto this new device – but for us consumers, the big question is;

Do you upgrade if you have a previous iPad model?

If you have the original iPad, then the answer is DUH. Of. Course! If you have an iPad 2, the decision is a little more difficult as its almost as fast as the new iPad. However, if you choose not to upgrade, then when next in the Apple Store – treat it as if it was Medusa.

Do. Not. Look. At. It.