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12.9-Inch 'iPad Pro' Production Rumored for Q2 2015 Amid Manufacturing Difficulties
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Nothing happens in the first half of a year, bar spec bumps
I don't see why anyone would ever predict a major product release for early in the year. I'm no
expert, but from my short history of seeing product releases, they nearly always happen in the October Keynote.
I don't see why anyone would ever predict a major product release for early in the year. I'm no
expert, but from my short history of seeing product releases, they nearly always happen in the October Keynote.
I'm going to skip making my mind up until I see an actual product. If it's a "lagfest", I'll take that into consideration. If it's responsive, I'll take that into consideration.
An iPad is a great device for doing most of the stuff that folks frequently do with their computers at home:
email
calendar
contacts
remainders
photos
maps and directions
surf web
facebook
twitter
videos
books and pdfs
music
etc..
The iPad was a great response to netbooks, which performed the same routine tasks.
Here is the rub.....you don't need the latest iPad (or any tablet for that matter) to run routine applications, so people are just not that motivated to upgrade frequently.
I suspect a lot of people have a cheap desktop at home for storing media and occasionally running productivity software. They use an iPad as their mobile computer when sitting on the couch, visiting coffee shops, and going on vacation. This is a simple and relatively inexpensive setup that doesn't require frequent technology upgrades to get most of the bang for the buck.
calendar
contacts
remainders
photos
maps and directions
surf web
videos
books and pdfs
music
etc..
The iPad was a great response to netbooks, which performed the same routine tasks.
Here is the rub.....you don't need the latest iPad (or any tablet for that matter) to run routine applications, so people are just not that motivated to upgrade frequently.
I suspect a lot of people have a cheap desktop at home for storing media and occasionally running productivity software. They use an iPad as their mobile computer when sitting on the couch, visiting coffee shops, and going on vacation. This is a simple and relatively inexpensive setup that doesn't require frequent technology upgrades to get most of the bang for the buck.
I think software is the key to iPads innovation.. The specs on the new iPad Air 2 are excellent. iOS will need improvements like multi user login, some type of split screen multi tasking or something else no one has thought of. But as it stands. iPads are like MacBook Pro's you don't upgrade until you absolutely need to. I have the iPad Air 2 and I will not upgrade iPads anymore until there is a major shift/need. At this point I can use my Air 2 for a few years with no problem.
I pray that if this thing is real they do NOT have a 16gb option. I wish i could say that they would never be that foolish... but, well...
I think that the greatest challenge to Apple with regard to any "Pro" iPad is the need to cross lines that they have been unwilling to up to this point....
- Support for Bluetooth pointing devices
- Removable media
- Full access to USB media
I think i agree. If we had once choice... either a Macbook Air that had ARM and OS X, or this iPad Pro that could run both... would be hard choice.
That's pretty significant sales drops forecasted. I guess thinner, faster, better only works for so long until people "get it" and start keeping their tablets instead of upgrading. That, and the hidden code Apple puts in new iOS versions that slows down perfectly good older iPads to the point of being frustratingly slow, causing the owner to spend the money on a new one.
It's funny, that code only slows down some of the iPads and not all of them.
Horrible mockup that MR keeps using... it looks more like a 15" iPad mockup next to a 13" MacBook.
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"I suspect a lot of people have a cheap desktop at home for storing media and occasionally running productivity software. They use an iPad as their mobile computer when sitting on the couch, visiting coffee shops, and going on vacation."
You described me to a tee, lol
This probably means the release date will be around late Q3 / early Q4 with the rest of the iPads in Apple's now yearly second fall event.
Something only going into production in Q2 wouldn't be ready till Q3 at the earliest with the volumes Apple shifts. By then there would be no point in a separate event.
Something only going into production in Q2 wouldn't be ready till Q3 at the earliest with the volumes Apple shifts. By then there would be no point in a separate event.