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12.9-Inch 'iPad Pro' Production Rumored for Q2 2015 Amid Manufacturing Difficulties

Serban said:
1) Split screen on a 12" device make sense because you will have 2x 6" windows, and not like devices like note when you make split screen you have 2x of 2.8" screens, what the hell can you do on 2.8" screen?!
2) Multi users. accounts..at least admin and a guest accounts
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Don't want to share iPad. Forget about multi users/account. It doesn't improve the performance because more users mean more profiles, more useless apps and more craps to control. It makes sense for enterprise and business can develop their own, not Apple.
 
jaison13 said:
other than a faster chip there is littler difference between the ipad 4 and the air 2, so why would any of this be appealing?? i'm still using my ipad 3. and really have no intention ob buying a new ipad until they make a truly professional model. one that runs osx, or uses something on par with wacom to write and draw with a pen. how about 4khd?? or a usb and or micro card slot?? 256GB flash?? any combo of these things would be worthy of being called pro. but im guessing all we will get is an ipad air 2 that has a bigger screen size.

if not for all the money i've spent in apps i'd be jumpimg ship to surface as far as tablets go!!!
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Then stick with your iPad 3 until it breaks because you won't ever see OSX in an iPad or stylus or SD slot or any other thing that you mentioned. Apple never intended to to do that and will never do. They always create a device for its purpose, not Float and Fly at the same time. Apple are all about user experience, not one-can-do-all thing. That's why they had different iOS builds for iPod Nano, Apple TV, iPhone, iPad and now Apple Watch.
With what you want above, you should go for MS or android tablets because their tablets suck so they need more bells and whistles to make some sales.
 
Why do I need a bigger screen for iOS?


First get split screen running on the iPad Air 2
 
LOL at Cook talking about "significant innovation" for the iPad. Someone please tell him that making it slightly thinner, slightly faster and with a slightly better camera (but no flash :rolleyes:) is not what "significant innovation" means. :mad::mad::mad:
 
Teste said:
LOL at Cook talking about "significant innovation" for the iPad. Someone please tell him that making it slightly thinner, slightly faster and with a slightly better camera (but no flash :rolleyes:) is not what "significant innovation" means. :mad::mad::mad:
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You don't know much about the ipad air 2.
 
iOS 8?

Hope not.

Or it's just another big iphone.

Seriously Apple innovate!!!!

Look at the surface!!!!! Make that but better!!!
 
luckydcxx said:
Is there any apple product that doesn't have manufacturing difficulties/delays?
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I wonder if Apple in the arrogance has piffed off so many of their manufacturers and suppliers that that they're having a hard time finding high end manufacturers that will suffer to make stuff for them.

I know what my reaction would be if I was told to "put on my big boy pants." At a certain point the money doesn't matter any more.
 
ThIs news just Irks me lol

We all still have iPads that drive mono sound away from the user

We still have iPads that can't display two apps at once nor shrink a window down to do other tasks

We still have iPads that look and feel like a big iphone.

Apple - for godsakes!! make the iPad better ! Lol
 
That should say 11" macbook air because if it was 13", the screen sizes would be relatively the same but there is an obvious difference in size between the macbook screen and iPad screen.
 
dmylrea said:
You mean it works for Apple to claim "innovation" by copying Android models. Innovation means to do it first, not be a copy-cat.

I'd love to see Apple do something like a Dell XPS 18, but as an iMac Tablet. A portable, thin, big screen Mac with Retina or 4K display would be innovative from a Mac point of view. Of course, Dell would have already done it, so it wouldn't be original innovation.
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The innovation is in the guts itself. The CPU in the iDevices are designed by Apple sure they are ARM based, but by the time Apple's done with it, it's far from the original ARM chip. There's your innovation as no one else uses the CPU by Apple. Also the use of the M8 coprocessor is pretty innovative. The OS is Apple as well so saying Apple doesn't innovate is just trolling. Last I checked Dell doesn't design their own chips nor the OS. To be fair, Apple only does this with their idevices as Macs use the latest Intel chips. BTW the Dell XPS18 isn't 4K so when you say "Dell would have already done it..." are you just speculating?

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lincolntran said:
You don't know much about the ipad air 2.
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This is the problem these days. Many people are being blinded by flashy specs like 8 cores, 12 cores, 4GB of RAM, bigger screens, etc. Yet they can't tell you what they would do with these specs. They just want to have something that's "tricked out" and boast about it. They don't seem to remember the size and heftiness of tablets pre-iPad. To get something incrementally more powerful than the original iPad into a space that is smaller and make it weigh much more lighter is innovation. To design a chip (not many of us can boast of such a thing) specific to the iPad Air 2 is innovative. The iPad 2 (NOT AIR) can still use iOS 8. I don't see any Android tablets from 2011 being able to upgrade to Lollipop. iOS 8 runs fine on my iPad 2, sure it's not as fast as the newer iPads, but it's still very usable.
 
jm001 said:
The innovation is in the guts itself. The CPU in the iDevices are designed by Apple sure they are ARM based, but by the time Apple's done with it, it's far from the original ARM chip. There's your innovation as no one else uses the CPU by Apple. Also the use of the M8 coprocessor is pretty innovative. The OS is Apple as well so saying Apple doesn't innovate is just trolling. Last I checked Dell doesn't design their own chips nor the OS. To be fair, Apple only does this with their idevices as Macs use the latest Intel chips. BTW the Dell XPS18 isn't 4K so when you say "Dell would have already done it..." are you just speculating?
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Dell has never been in the same class. Dell was just the last company standing in a sea of commodity craptastic slaptogether resellers.

Apple's competitors at the moment are Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Ubuntu, RIM, and Jolla.

RIM is on it's last breaths due to arrogance. Hmm... anyway

I'm rooting for Jolla. They're the ultimate underdog and completely non-evil at the moment. A world run by Mozilla would be tolerable. The dickweed that runs Ubuntu is a dickweed so I ain't rootin for them ever.

Google, Microsoft, and Apple are all evil, they just have various degrees of evilness. I wish evil didn't always win.
 
Teste said:
LOL at Cook talking about "significant innovation" for the iPad. Someone please tell him that making it slightly thinner, slightly faster and with a slightly better camera (but no flash :rolleyes:) is not what "significant innovation" means. :mad::mad::mad:
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Cook knows. He hopes we don't
 
zedsdead said:
The iPad is stagnant because it needs more innovation on the software side. The internals of the iPad Air 2 are amazing, but who is really going to take advantage of it; very few people.

The productivity side to tablets is still lackluster and is in its infancy.
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I agree, though I think a larger iPad will vastly improve keyboard/text input and that alone can make the iPad a significantly better productivity device for certain applications.

I think the trick is for Apple to retain the drop dead simplicity of iOS while sprinkling in a few power user features like OS level support for handwriting recognition and pressure sensitive styluses which I think is a very natural input method for tablets. It would enable new use cases and differentiate it from iPhones and Macs.
 
The Air already needs to have iOS which is tailored for it, even now, it's just a blown up iPhone version. If they make the ''iPad Pro'' and use your regular iOS, then what's the point? When you have a bigger screen, you need to take advantage of that. Apple isn't really doing that with iOS on the iPad.

Also, if 16gb is the base version, oh man, how cheap can you be... :confused:
 
I honestly can't remember the last apple device that didn't have rumored production problems pushing it back. Has there ever been one?
 
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