The weight will be completely impractical. The 12.9 is already heavy enough that it’s caused me serious lower left arm pain from holding it for prolonged periods. An even heavier one would unmanageable for most people I expect.
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14-Inch iPad Pro With Mini-LED Display Rumored to Launch in Early 2023
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Dear Tim Apple,
your products are getting worser each day. Nobody wants and needs a 14.1 iPad. We want a new 11" iPad Pro with Mini LED!!!!!!
Apple is becoming the second Nokia. In a few years, nobody will remember your strange company.
your products are getting worser each day. Nobody wants and needs a 14.1 iPad. We want a new 11" iPad Pro with Mini LED!!!!!!
Apple is becoming the second Nokia. In a few years, nobody will remember your strange company.
The current 12.9” starts at $1100. If they end up keeping it in the lineup, a $200 jump for an inch of screen sounds pretty Appley. Not too different from the way the phones are priced out. I guess my assumption would be that they would start it with the same base specs as the 12.9”, since charging for ram and storage upgrades is so wildly profitable for them.
Apple has had so few product flops relative to their successes that it's unlikely they are going to introduce something that won't be well-received by its intended market.
I don’t hold my 12.9 iPad for long anyway - it’s not as if that was a requirement per se.
and you are basing this comment purely on how you use it and with no imagination to how others may use it.
There is a mini and 11" for you still, so where is the problem?
No argument there to be sure, as evidenced not just by the Surface Studio but also the $2500 24" Wacom Cintiq Pro (and its $500 stand).
I have no doubt that if there were a 24" "iPad Studio" that needed to be plugged into the wall to function some of the artists and design professionals who currently use a Wacom Cintiq Pro or Surface Studio would buy it instead. Whether there are enough of those people to make it worth building the product to Apple is an entirely separate question, but they do exist.
But if we all just said, I hate it because....... there would be no conversation, as you provide no use case for your reasoning.
FWIW my current iPad Pro 12 sits on the desk full time for use as a drawing and visual research device [for professional work]. A larger iPad suits these uses a lot.
I have the 11 iPad Pro at home for more personal consumption use and the odd sketch.
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There is no deep integration with Google Drive, so you can't keep things synced with your local folders.
You also can't do much with the files in there. There are no apps like Keka or vscode or Terminal, so the Files app is still not on par as Finder. You also can't run or compile things in the Files app.
iPad 16 has a much improved Files app with all the same desktop features and table view for files, not just icons.
Steve Jobs isn’t Apple. Apple isn’t Steve Jobs. While I agree he’d have hated half of the products they keep pushing out; this argument is old, tired and no longer apt.
14.1” Finally a larger screen size than 12.9” Hopefully this rumor turns out to be true.
I use my iPad Pro as a drawing and writing tablet. I’ve ALWAYS wanted something like a 15” screen iPad Pro so the screen and actual drawing surface would be 9”x12”. But I’ll gladly take 14.1” that get’s me at least a 8.5”x11” ish screen.
I use my iPad Pro as a drawing and writing tablet. I’ve ALWAYS wanted something like a 15” screen iPad Pro so the screen and actual drawing surface would be 9”x12”. But I’ll gladly take 14.1” that get’s me at least a 8.5”x11” ish screen.
will be interesting but think 12.9 is enough for my usage. not sure anything bigger will be able to be used without a keyboard.
The 13" wont get smaller bezels unless the screen size increases otherwise there would need to be yet another 13" Magic Keyboard. I think Apple knows they would deter enough upgraders that way.