This is what I'm waiting on, too. Would be weird if the smaller one is the flagship while the larger Pro gets just an incremental update without the improved screen/ginormous footprint/bezel reduction. Would be best if the 12.9 and the 10.5 are the flagship Pros.
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10.5-Inch iPad Pro Entering Limited Production, But Spring, WWDC, or Fall Launch Remains Unclear
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Which seems unlikely with their reluctance in revealing the file system to users and their displeasure over Steve Troughton-Smith's concept app that brought Finder-like windowing to iOS.
There is no vision of the new desktop. Because that vision needs implementation, and decisions.
A roadmap for an iPad to replace a PC does not exist. Because that would require a file system, multi-windowing, multi-monitor and other connectivity. All stuff that Apple denies. Because on the short term, it would cannibalize Mac. On the long term, they would probably double that market, but they lack the courage and the vision to bring an iPad/MacBook convert. The alibi/escape for that lack is the TouchBar (soo exciting...)
Creative destruction (as defined by Schumpeter) at Apple died with Jobs. They are at the innovation level of the railway industry now.
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New iPhones in September, new iPads in October. If OLED happens, it will be in iPhones first, not iPads. One iPad OLED display would make several iPhone displays. I'd like to see a Mini Pro. If none, then I'll pop for a 9.7" Pro.
Maybe some new hardware mentioned at WWDC, iMacs if there's some new software revealed that will benefit from new iron. Definitely a new Apple Thunderbolt Display. LOL!
Maybe some new hardware mentioned at WWDC, iMacs if there's some new software revealed that will benefit from new iron. Definitely a new Apple Thunderbolt Display. LOL!
You think that's bad I'm still dealing with 1st gen iPad mini load times (A5 chip) at least the mini 2 has an A7 chip.
This was jobs biggest failure. The iPad is where it ie isn't due to jobs. In 2011 jobs could have turned the ipad 2, into everything YOU think is important. Jobs lacked that courage you speak of. Now Timmy is cleaning up the mess.
Mhhhh, at that time, one could argue that there was ample room for 2 separate product lines iPad and MacBook (both being the best in their category, prone to become the market champs by then)
But now, with stagnating iPad sales, coinciding with a new generation that grew up with iPads and don't want to give up multi-touch but need MacBook functionality, times have changed.
As industry leaders, they now are obliged to take bold action and define new markets instead of milking the aging cows. But it doesn't happen.
In terms of courage: Jobs didn't need courage. He was an agressor by himself. He didn't defend market share because he invented new markets (/segments).
Courage is needed to take bold decisions where risk is involved. Timmy doesn't like that. That makes him defensive, as an incumbant. He basically ended product orientation, introducing minnovation (minimal innovation) disproportional to numbers of patents, design & engineering talent, and R&D expenditures. Just embarassing to see them big leaders getting "excited" by TouchBar/Airpod/Watchband gimmickery and refurb designs.
Instead of "cleaning the mess", they spiritually killed the company.
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And yet Cook was the one who made every one of Job's inventions successful by bringing it into mass production.
People seem to forget that Jobs chose Cook to succeed him. And it stands to reason that when he did so, he conferred with Cook and what he felt were Apple's strengths and where the company's main focus should be going forward. As such, I do not believe Cook - and Job's other senior executives, most of who are still with the Company - is/are running Apple diametrically in opposition to how Jobs would have had he not passed (even if I don't happen to like some of their decisions).
Regardless in 2011 jobs had his chance and blew it. There is no other way to spin that if you believe the "iPad issue" is timmys fault.. Everything else is a matter of opinion.