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10th-Gen iPad Features Apple's First-Ever Landscape Camera Design on an iPad
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And the dude in the center just found out he's the new host for Blue's Clues.
This is a good change. Too bad the Pros didn't get this change this year.
At least this tells you that Apple holds product features every year so that they can have something to add to it. M2 iPad Pros not having landscape camera is intentional.
That's the play I reckon. Stage Manger, and apps that take advantage of it aren't going to reach a point that they become compelling until around the time Apple moves the camera anyway.
The 2018 iPad Pro is an absolute hero.
I can guarantee that Apple product managers and designers are not ever making decisions based upon product profitability. That’s just not how they operate and would be the death of them if they did. Of course they have a mandate to develop products that have certain features within a price point range (product costing is managed by different teams).
As you point out, supply chain issues have no doubt impacted plans for most products and driven costs higher too. That’s not an issue with Apple being more focused on profit than innovation. They’ve been the most profitable tech company for a long time, through periods of extreme innovation. I’m old enough to recognize that we’re beyond the point where game changing, useful, tech innovation comes to market in 12 month cycles, but that doesn’t mean a company like Apple is calling it in and making product decisions primarily to drive profit.
If I had to guess, the next 5 years will be filled with iterative product updates that will be considered boring to many, like further energy efficient chipsets that offer longer battery life, and additional miniaturization to reduce weight and size, given the ever-increasing cost of shipping everything (that many people never think about).
At the time of her leaving, Apple Stores were receiving more floor traffic than previously. I never really “got” her failure. Unless some folks see the fact that Apple Stores had a lot of folks in them as a failure. (“I loved it back when I could go into an Apple Store and see no one there, that’s the Apple Store experience I want to go back to!”)
The iPad Air needed a chance to rip ppl off for close to 1yr to pay for ahem R&D to make the regular iPad in the exact same shell but with more pastel like colours. Kind of an insult really.
So can someone tell me what’s the point of the iPad Air please??
Finally, what I can't understand is why the Pro don't receive the same landscape camera and the 11 don't receive mini LED.
iPad 10 and Air? What's the point now?
Mini, no update, no 120 refresh rate.
Once more Apple is losing the opportunity.
One more year I will not update, thank you Apple.
iPad 10 and Air? What's the point now?
Mini, no update, no 120 refresh rate.
Once more Apple is losing the opportunity.
One more year I will not update, thank you Apple.
The apple pencil 1 wasn’t such a clever design. Plugging in to the lightning port feels clunky and the cap covering the pencil’s lightning connector is very easy to lose, and so is the tiny adapter for charging with the cable. And Apple offered no solution if that happened, other than buying another $100 apple pencil. Also, using this pencil with the 10th gen iPad requires an adapter, since the iPad is now USB-C. Another bad decision from Apple, always nickel and diming the customers.
Apple pencil 1 had a cap that easily got lost and most folks bought rubberized tethers for it. And if you are sitting in a meeting and your Apple Pencil runs out of battery and you connect it to the iPad to charge, now you cannot use your iPad without having a a crazy eye-poking spear sticking out the top, bottom or side depending on the orientation you hold the iPad in. I usually went with upside-down portrait which looks like you are flipping everyone off until someone walks in front of you and bumps against the pencil and it goes flying. I stand by what I said: horrible design.
Now, instead of just losing the charging cap you can also lose or forget to pack your charging dongle. Not elegant at all.
I guess to each his/her own on the iPad keyboard. But for me, I think it makes Apple forget that they are selling a tablet. One thing I like about the mini is that it is not a confused device.
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Damn it. The only thing I cared about was the modular iPad keyboard and trackpad, which disappointingly had pins ON THE BOTTOM of the iPad!
It has all the dedicated controls and bigger trackpad like the MacBooks, AND a way more adjustable and separate back.
Apple (or anyone, really) better build these for the CURRENT iPad Pros!!
That design is FAR better than the current Magic Keyboard for iPad.
It has all the dedicated controls and bigger trackpad like the MacBooks, AND a way more adjustable and separate back.
Apple (or anyone, really) better build these for the CURRENT iPad Pros!!
That design is FAR better than the current Magic Keyboard for iPad.
The days of tablets being just tablets are done. They are flexible devices that can be interacted with via multiple input methods. There’s no going back.
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Apple doesn't seem to care for the 8-9% minority which is left-handed, and while holding the iPad in portrait mode, will cover the cam more or less with the right hand. Personally I find this already to be an issue with the pen-charging position on the iPad Pro.
The next Pro iPad will most probably have a landscape camera too.