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12.2-Inch 'iPad Air Plus' May Launch Between April and June 2015 With A9 Processor

I'm ready for the iPad mini 4. it will be what the 3 should have been imo
"shut up and take my money"
I"m pretty sure most of the Mini fans like me are holding on to their 3's because adding touch id wasn't enough. Apple really did miss a lot of upgrade money this year end by ignoring the 3. Maybe they are just thinking, they will get it later anyway.
my 2 cents
 
ron7624 said:
I'm ready for the iPad mini 4. it will be what the 3 should have been imo
"shut up and take my money"
I"m pretty sure most of the Mini fans like me are holding on to their 3's because adding touch id wasn't enough. Apple really did miss a lot of upgrade money this year end by ignoring the 3. Maybe they are just thinking, they will get it later anyway.
my 2 cents
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just like they did with the first generation ipad mini...so the next ipad mini generation will be significant upgrade
 
A giant iPad sounds great - almost like taking the rMBP 13" screen and popping it off the base, but I just don't see how an oversized iPad could be functional for anything other than consumption (videos, reading), without needing a keyboard and requiring the device to be propped up in some way (just as with the SP3).

I've thought this exact thing when MS came out with the SP and it's clear MS is still struggling with showing how the SP can be used in tablet mode, because in reality, it just doesn't function well that way.

And beyond the functional issues with a holding a large screened device, one that is based on a touch input is going to be the biggest, dirtiest, smudge-filled screen you've ever seen. I don't care what kind of coating Apple could put on the screen, it's going to be dirty in a way that an iPhone or even normal iPad gets - that is, you can wipe your phone screen on your pant leg and clean it.

The normal iPad you can use your sleeve to clean it off quickly, albeit not like the iPhone's fast and easy wiping.

Perhaps Apple has figured out how to make this giant iPad self-levitate, so you don't have to hold it. It will just float in front of you following you around. And instead of touch input, it will simply track your thoughts of what you want done...
 
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kepler20b said:
A9 + bigger display isn't gonna cut it. Give full OS X functionality or kthxbye
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I agree. If the form factor holds true, I suspect it will be to replace the Macbook Air...full OS X with detachable keyboard. The Surface form factor has a place, but done correctly as only Apple can.
 
MisterK said:
I'm not sure why people would ask for full OSX instead of specific functionality brought to iOS. Faster and better multi-tasking? That sounds great. More control over springboard? I'm in. Let's not pretend the ideal solution is bringing an existing mouse/keyboard OS to a touchscreen. Use your imagination. These functionality problems need to be solved natively.
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Because Apple isn't going to remove application sandboxing, signing, give terminal level control and file system access on iOS.

Indeed, if they did iOS just becomes a (less than it is now, granted) crappy version of OSX.
 
WinX is showing that touch and mouse can exist in the same OS on the same device.

I'm also of the opinion it's time for Apple to take that leap. They've been making OS X more touch friendly for a couple of years now and it will be nice to see it pay off.

But I suspect we'll get an ARM-powered OS X before we get a Surface Pro competitor. Apple isn't going to stick an x86 processor in to a tablet.
 
What I would like to see happen would be this device come out with an enhanced version of iOS, maybe adding in that multitasking that's in iOS already, multiple users and a few other features to bring it in line with what your "average" user would need from a cheap laptop. Maybe even create a keyboard attachment similar to the Surface Pro. Then drop the smaller MacBook air and replace with this rumoured 12 inch retina laptop with more beefy internals. Making the iPad Air Plus the "entry" laptop and the retina MacBook Air for people who need more power on the go. Who knows though.
 
rowspaxe said:
And those 250 million iPad owners have created a huge market for aftermarket pens--which in turn has created huge amounts of consumer frustration with the limitations of capacititative stylus's.

The whole pen tech thing--outside of dedicated wacom devices--is in its infancy. The samsung implementations with tiny pens sucked. Really--the surface pro 1 was the first successful pen tablet--and that only really worked after wacom provided new "feel" drivers in late 2013.
Now the surface pro 3 sports a new pen tech that--while good--will see considerable improvement.
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Huge market??
Lol. No.
I bet 5,000 cases are sold for every 1 stylus (plural form styli, btw).
I have worked at a busy cellular sales shop for the last four years & could count the amount of people that have come in asking for a stylus on a single hand. I tend to agree w/ Steve. I think they'd get lost (or stolen) frequently and be expensive to replace... particularly if, as you intimated, they added some new technology. All this for a very limited appeal. Obviously, in my job I see much more use of cellular devices than is typical & I can tell you... even though the Note phone is in its fourth iteration, I've only ever seen a Samsung rep use the stylus in a demo. I don't think they get much real world use.
 
people like me (that were looking for a less expensive option of a wacom touch monitor) dream for a day that iPad Air Plus became a reality. it will be a pleasure using Procreate app and Strip Designer with iTransmit to publish your work without leaving your iPad.
 
Keirasplace said:
Your unsubstantiated affirmation is less likely than my informed, guess so you're sure you should be trying to "burn" me with such a weak sauce...
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Annnnnnnnnnnd typical Apple defender, think they know exactly everything Apple does, what contracts they have with whom, etc.

Keep thinking you are actually "informed"... until you can prove what you think you are "informed" of, just stop, you look like a tool.
 
gmcalpin said:
Okay, bye. Because that will never happen. You'll get iOS apps with desktop-level features eventually (some apps already have them) — and a bigger display will help enable that. But touch UIs and mouse UIs are fundamentally incompatible.
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There is no technical or UX reason why you couldn't dual boot OSX and iOS
 
So was iPad mini 3 more of a stopgap solution since Apple wanted to get Touch ID onto every line of iOS devices?

Is the iPad mini 3 basically another repeat of iPad 3?
 
MisterK said:
I'm not sure why people would ask for full OSX instead of specific functionality brought to iOS. Faster and better multi-tasking? That sounds great. More control over springboard? I'm in. Let's not pretend the ideal solution is bringing an existing mouse/keyboard OS to a touchscreen. Use your imagination. These functionality problems need to be solved natively.
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This. The biggest weakness of the SP3 is that it still relies too heavily on the desktop to do its thing. Adobe's doing a great job of showing that powerful apps can have a good touchbased interface without losing any functionality, but MS still needs to take it that next step, and go primarily touch for the whole thing, top to bottom, to get the most out of the form factor.

We need the same from Apple. Less OSX on a tablet, more iOS souped up.
 
There is no such thing...

amirite said:
As others have said, Apple really needs to match such power and size in a tablet with software that justifies it.

I strongly believe iOS UI should remain relatively simple, but if we really want a post-PC future we need something that can replace a PC. I don't know what the UI should look like, but I damn sure hope Apple has an idea.

If the iPad Pro isn't at least half as game-changing as the original iPad then I'm going to strongly consider my future with this company as an investor and user.
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The PC will not disappear in the future. There is no post-PC future, and there probably never will be.

The ideologically invented name-tag "post-PC era or future" is a gimmick from Apple when the iPad was launched.
 
I need a true iPad Pro - that means with proper stylus. For creative work fingers ARE NO ENOUGH. I'm not a toddler, I know how to use tools!
 
mortenandersen said:
The PC will not disappear in the future. There is no post-PC future, and there probably never will be.

The ideologically invented name-tag "post-PC era or future" is a gimmick from Apple when the iPad was launched.
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If you listen to all of SJ's interviews regarding post-pc, he never said the PC will die. Post-pc doesn't mean no PC, just less PC.
 
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