How is it that Ming-Chi Kuo has a job? I could do his job. Anyone with any previous knowledge of Apple could do his job. He's not very reliable...
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A7X-Based iPad and iPad Mini Expected to Launch in 4Q 2013, Lower-Cost A6 iPad Mini to Follow in 2014
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Are you serious? $150 equals nearly 50% of the iPad mini's current price point.
Why is everyone only concentrating on the cheapest models? What about the $950 iPad?
this post on MR :
https://www.macrumors.com/2013/09/04/...v-coming-soon/
mentions that apple received some shipments labeled "set top box" but they also just received a shipment labeled "PC Portable"
to me that could only mean that they just got a restocking of MBA from a new manufacturer, or they received some new rMBPs. Am I understanding this right? what could that mean?
and 10.8.5 has support for ac wifi and Haswell
It depends how the device fills your needs. I want a tablet because a don't want to carry my 15" inch MBP every day. The iPad is cool to read some pdf's and thats it (in my case).
But I still need the MBP to write code.
If you study something that requires a real computer (eg: Computer Science) the iPad is a bit of a "toy". It's cool because maybe for 2 days a week I don't need to carry the MBP because in that days I just need to read some pdf's or do some light work on a console which I can do on a iPad with an SSH client connected to a remote server.
But lets be honest, 500 for something that only replaces ~20% of what you do on a 1500 machine can be considered a bit of a "toy"
Now if you can use the iPad to fulfill all of your needs without using a "computer" than I agree with you, you have a full work machine.
The iPad mini is a bit cheaper, but the actual model is just a compilation of old hardware. Most people will buy a iPad today to run iOS 6. If I had to buy a iPad today I will try to guess how will it run the iOS 9. With that processor and with that RAM the actual mini is a no go.
Asus just released a tablet with IGZO IPS display with a "very wide color gamut" 2560 x 1600 pixels.
http://press.asus.com/asus-announce...ansformer-pad-tf701t-with-2560-x-1600-display
The upcoming iPads are likely to see this as well. Hopefully, the retina Macbook Pros get it too.
http://press.asus.com/asus-announce...ansformer-pad-tf701t-with-2560-x-1600-display
The upcoming iPads are likely to see this as well. Hopefully, the retina Macbook Pros get it too.
You honestly believe this?
They design their own chips from scratch themselves?
Hmmm interesting,
hhhmmm. This doesn't all add up to me. They can't really raise the price of the mini to accommodate the retina screen as it would put it right up with the iPad. To make a cheaper one relevant they would have to be $250 at the max. I'd really be surprised to see them go that low. I think it would but a massive hit on mini retina sales, unless of course that is what they want to do.
Because the $950 model has 128 GB, which no iPad mini can be configured with?
The difference between the iPad 4 and mini is always exactly the same for the same amount of storage, today: $170.
This puts me in a pickle... I currently have the Mini and I'm thinking I want to go back to the full size version, but if a Retina version of the Mini comes out I don't know what to get?!
apple isnt in a position to need saving -- theyre the most profitable PC maker *and* mobile maker; two industries. they could cost on their cash for a decade.
nor did competition build apple when it came back w/ the ipod to become the juggernaut they are now. everyone else's products sucked, and they made something truly better. same w/ the iphone, same w/ the ipad. only diff now is the clone makers are getting better are copying.
As far as Macs go, I meant I didn't want one that had everything you needed (keyboard, mouse, etc.), but was cheap and made of slightly cheaper materials.
Even you are making it to simple. There are currently 4 memory configurations 16,32,64,128gb models. Black and white, LTE or Wifi, Verizon, ATT and Sprint.
That is over 20 different configurable options and that is just for the regular ipad.
No problem at all.
Of course they'd keep the old previous-generation model around to have an effective entry-level price to advertise.
"iPad mini now starting at an affordable 299$ (279$?)
Incredible retina display and faster processor only 130$ more.
Add in 3G/LTE for another 130$."
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this report explains why apple is looking for plastic product experts
in my view... they're headed in the wrong direction
in my view... they're headed in the wrong direction
I bet we have 3-4 out of 5 of those within a year. The h.265 Apple TV box will probably be a while if it ever exists.
You honestly believe this?
They design their own chips from scratch themselves?
Hmmm interesting,
He's actually quite a bit closer to being correct than you are insinuating... They license the rights to a reference design & then have their engineers heavily modify it, then that chip design becomes the property of Apple.
Recently, they've started buying chip companies.. from design to foundries, so clearly the design piece of Apple's processors is going to be even more "in-house" soon.
But this news article is about a cheaper ipad mini model with the same screen size. I'm not against reasonable variations in screen sizes (like iPad and iPad mini), althought I'm against unreasonable lineup of iPad, iPad mini, iPad maxi, iPad maxi+ and whatever. And I'm strongly against such moves as this article predicts - we'll get two iPad mini models, one cheaper, one more expensive, and screen size is the same. We already (well, almost) got 2 iPhone models 5S and 5C, and who knows how it turns out. And having 2 models and starting messing with screen diagonal (4 inch, 5 inch, 6 inch) is dangerous, since its confusing to the consumer.