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Any interest in an "iPad Air"?
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What would work better would be a raised edge. A roll about 5mm wide and 1mm high, tapered to the outside to encourage your finger to point away from the screen, would allow the screen bezel to be cut down to a few millimeters (enough that you would easily be able to reach the edges and corners to tap or whatever). Reducing the frame area would reduce weight, making it a little easier to grip. And the screen would never lay on a table surface.
No much "Thinking outside the box" going on here 
You can do a lot with the bezel, including getting rid of it totally at times.
Think into the future a bit more people. The bezel does not have to be a bit of glass painted black. It can in the future be screen area that can be used as a bezel when needed and screen when it's not.
Just because you can display pixels on an area, does not mean it, all the time, has to accept user input.
Simple example, different screen tech, and you could display an image of a bezel around the screen, using the screen, in any colour, and have they area temporarily dead to user input, then when you let go, say to watch a movie, the image could open out and also use the bezel area for display.
The bezel can be much more in the future.
It does not have to stay just a bit of glass painted black.
You can do a lot with the bezel, including getting rid of it totally at times.
Think into the future a bit more people. The bezel does not have to be a bit of glass painted black. It can in the future be screen area that can be used as a bezel when needed and screen when it's not.
Just because you can display pixels on an area, does not mean it, all the time, has to accept user input.
Simple example, different screen tech, and you could display an image of a bezel around the screen, using the screen, in any colour, and have they area temporarily dead to user input, then when you let go, say to watch a movie, the image could open out and also use the bezel area for display.
The bezel can be much more in the future.
It does not have to stay just a bit of glass painted black.
Although I'm sure an iPad Air would be great, do we really need to add to the confusion of having 18 models already?
Imagine the threads on here when Apple is selling 24 different models of iPad (up to 36 if the Air came with 3G):
3 Black Wifi Air
3 White Wifi Air
3 Black Wifi Pro
3 White Wifi Pro
3 Black ATT Pro
3 White ATT Pro
3 Black Verizon Pro
3 White Verizon Pro
3 Black ATT Air
3 White ATT Air
3 Black Verizon Air
3 White Verizon Air
"Should I purchase the 32GB Black AT&T iPad Pro or the 16GB White Verizon iPad Air or the 64GB Black Wifi iPad Pro or the 16GB White AT&T iPad Air or a different model?"
Imagine the threads on here when Apple is selling 24 different models of iPad (up to 36 if the Air came with 3G):
3 Black Wifi Air
3 White Wifi Air
3 Black Wifi Pro
3 White Wifi Pro
3 Black ATT Pro
3 White ATT Pro
3 Black Verizon Pro
3 White Verizon Pro
3 Black ATT Air
3 White ATT Air
3 Black Verizon Air
3 White Verizon Air
"Should I purchase the 32GB Black AT&T iPad Pro or the 16GB White Verizon iPad Air or the 64GB Black Wifi iPad Pro or the 16GB White AT&T iPad Air or a different model?"
The iPad is already too heavy, even the iPad 2. I don't think a "pro" model would work, even though I would like extra features like an sd card slot, a retina display, a quad core GPU, 1GB ram and a higher resolution camera. Throw all that stuff in and all of a sudden it weighs 1.6 pounds, and it just isn't worth it.
An iPad Air with no cameras and 7 hour battery life that weighs about 1 pound would be really cool though. I wouldn't mind sacrificing a bit of battery to get somethign that is nicer to read on.
An iPad Air with no cameras and 7 hour battery life that weighs about 1 pound would be really cool though. I wouldn't mind sacrificing a bit of battery to get somethign that is nicer to read on.
Isn't the iPad Air enough for you now?
But I guess it can get thinner and a bit lighter with Apple. Who knows?
But I guess it can get thinner and a bit lighter with Apple. Who knows?