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iPad Air Sale Offers $100 Gift Card

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Target is giving customers a $100 gift card if they purchase an iPad Air or an iPad mini with Retina display, effectively lowering the price to $399 for the iPad Air and $299 for the smaller Apple tablet.

This is one of the best deals we’ve seen as of recently, and while you’ll still have to pay the full $499 for the iPad Air (or $399 for the iPad mini), you’ll receive a $100 Target gift card which you can spend on anything in the store, making it a great deal for those who shop at Target frequently.

The deal is in motion for every iPad Air and iPad mini with Retina display that Target sells, including all storage sizes and even WiFi + Cellular models.

It’s been a while since we’ve seen a deal this good. Usually we’ve seen retailers discount Apple’s flagship tablets by only $50 or so, but Target seems to be taking it to a new level and effectively giving customers a $100 discount on a new iPad, which is probably better than any Black Friday deal you’ll ever come across.

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We’ve already seen plenty of iPad sales this year from a plethora of retail stores, including Walmart, Best Buy and Target, where you can usually find an iPad for around $50 off the normal retail price. The number of deals that we’ve seen has drifted off slightly since the beginning of the year, though, but they’ve still been rolling in steadily over the last few weeks.

2014 has certainly been the year of iPad sales so far, with deals coming from every which direction from practically every big franchise store. Walmart had a big sale on the iPad 2 at $299 awhile back, and Staples even took $30 off on every iPad model. Best Buy also knocked $50 off the price of the iPad Air back in January, allowing consumers to pick one up for as little as $450.

All of these deals came at off-peak shopping times (save for Valentine’s Day, we suppose), so we can’t imagine what future sales will be like throughout the year and even leading up to Apple’s annual fall event where the company usually announces a new iPad model. This time around, the iPad Air 2 is expected to make an appearance, as well as an updated iPad mini Retina model, although rumors about that have been fairly quiet except for the expected Touch ID integration.

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The iPad Air 2 and the new iPad mini with Retina display are expected to come equipped with a slightly new look and the inclusion of Apple’s Touch ID fingerprint sensor

Touch ID was definitely one of the features that users were looking forward to the most ahead of the iPad Air event back in October last year, especially after it was introduced on the new iPhone 5s just a month earlier, but Apple sadly did not deliver such a feature that time around, which we weren’t too surprised about. It’s possible that Apple wanted the Touch ID technology to be around for a year or so and see how it did before expanding the feature to other iOS devices.

One of the biggest reasons that the Touch ID fingerprint sensor is so popular on the iPhone 5s is because of the convenience it offers when unlocking your device and purchasing apps in the iTunes App Store. It’s a lot quicker and easier than entering in your passcode every time, as well as typing in your confusing Apple ID password whenever you want to buy an app.

That same convenience could easily be used on the iPad as well. Plus, iOS 8 introduces third-party support for Touch ID, so we should be seeing a lot more capabilities with the fingerprint sensor come this fall.

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