erm, don't buy one then and its not greed its business. Ship a new range of iPads with class leading performance, faster ram and nand, best display out there, pencil support then pop the price up a bit as you are offering more, drop the price on the older model and give yourself a new price point for future models rather than being stuck at the older price which hasn't changed year after year. Sounds like good business.
I have money ready for a good ipad if need be but I don't mind it not being a big update we know ipad updates can be slow however Pro name with £100 and a clear tech savvy forum we can see that this is not worth a £100 mark up its profiteering but on the scale of Apple we are talking probably many million possibly more even if sales are slower. Do the maths it's 1/5 more even if they sell less iPads the profits are high.
Perhaps that's the idea sell less iPads higher mark up. Clearly that means Apple is saying to core fans come on queue you will buy any old crap.
That's why I'm voting with my wallet and saying no new iPad and I hope when apple check 9.7" sales they are the worst ever. Might make them rush out a fair price 16gb entry model.
£399 is top market but entry for Apple
£499 you can almost afford Mac book or you would be able to purchase a used one.
iPod is affordable, iPhone is with a contract, iPad? Well it was people don't always buy 3G ones with a contract more Wi-fi cash or credit card don't they? I was just as angry when they hiked up the IPhone price from £499 but that was not as much as £100.
£100 for an "Air 3" is apple profiteering of fans by all means buy it it's slightly ether than my air 2 but with the weak resell value each year the "yearly update cycle" is not a good deal for anybody even Apples core fans.
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I guess you would have been glad if Apple just released the iPad air2, with true tone and an a9x, with 16gb for the same introduction price as the air 2 16gb.
If you don't like it, there is a choice.
You using Bluetooth speakers, is your choice, so if you don' t need the better speakers, don' t blame Apple for putting them in as a feature. You have really lost it.....
Buy an iPad Air 2 or some other tablet then, apple doesn't t owe you anything. You owe yourself making the best choice for your budget. If the iPad Pro 9.7 isn't it for you, make another choice. If you are right there will still be a lot of new iPad Air 2 buyers, so Apple will still make profits. And that's it. Making a profit, if no profit is made, development stops...
It is like I really hate BMW for making a 3 series too expensive, but then I could buy the 2 series, or buy another brand of car. Or I wait for year for the new model, and get the old model at a discount.
Yes because taking it down to 16gb that's effectively what it is. Not everyone wants pencil support and at £499 if you fancy a new iPad and that's the entry price it won let be an essential purchase if it was your looking at £479 is it? And if you want 3G? Someone said the top end is one is nearing a grand.
What sort of Mac can I buy for that price because I would fancy a swap from Windows but they have always been expensive iOS is something everybody can save for or working class can buy them from CeX and Gumtree or eBay if on a much smaller budget?
If you can afford £100 extra and a pencil for 80 quid what job do you have just be better than mine as I always thought iPad was luxury item unless you have a lottery win?
[doublepost=1460565972][/doublepost]And tell me why 64gb has become so small in a year that I need 128gb at a time when I can rent movies and they store on iCloud or delete or buy iCloud and watch via wi-fi or music again the cloud or the App Store isn't what it use to be? If you are using the new iPad I'm sure well I can't see everybody filling it.
iPad just went from affordable to for the rich. I feel strongly about it and I welcome further chats on here to debate it and would love to hear Apples answer to why iPad is now Mac book price?
