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Apple Apparently 'Got Close' to Launching a 14-Inch iPad This Year

Unregistered 4U said:
Most? Not likely. Apple’s said that half of the folks buying iPads are new to Apple. Considering how Apple roughly sells twice as many iPad units as Mac units, that’s a very large number of folks not interested in macOS.
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“New to apple” - I don’t own a MacOS device. I never have. Apple will count me. Yet I’ve used macOS devices for years at work and have heaps of friends with them. I know how it works in and out. I just don’t want a MacBook.

I would also like to see exactly what apple said - is it the people “buying” that are new to apple or the people creating an Id on the device and using it? Because I have plenty of friends with a single apple family computer at home but their whole horde has their own iPad (kid’s first device, like you noted). This is a perfect example of more iPad than computer sales yet fails to make your point for you

I don’t believe the argument that people buy iPads because they don’t know better (If only they knew the glories of macOS)
 
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it will take more than a bigger screen to “blur the lines between a tablet and a laptop”. That would require a complete rethink.
 
An iPad article on the front page gives the same reaction every time, year after year, from a certain and very confused user group.

If you think a iPad can fully replace a Mac you are a uneducated. If you think a Mac can fully replace an iPad, you are an equally uneducated. For the large majority, both either will do. For a smaller group, Mac or iPad is a necessity.

Good screen size is a meaningless discussion as it is the individual user preference that dictates the choice, nothing else.
 
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havaloc said:
Apple. The problem isn't your hardware. It's your software. Until they figure out how ( or have the guts to do it ) to put macOS on an iPad I grow less and less interested in an iPad. I use my phone more and more in its place. It's feeling like a third wheel in the laptop / phone relationship.
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I think this would be a really poor decision. You just need to look at how that went for Microsoft to see you will end up with the worst of both worlds.
 
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MacRumors said:


Apple "got close" to releasing an all-new 14-inch iPad model this year, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports.
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A product that I do not need at all. My iPad Pro plus keyboard is too clunky already. Instead, I would buy a 11- or 12-inch Macbook with macOS (as in not ipadOS) in a heartbeat. On such a device, you could get real work done while on the road, as opposed to the horrific experience with work apps on the iPad.
 
q64ceo said:
Might as well just release a Mac with a touch screen like the MS Surface. 14 inches is a bit big for a tablet.
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Ive always thought thats essentially what the ios'ification of osx has been leading to.
 
F-B-Z said:
A product that I do not need at all. My iPad Pro plus keyboard is too clunky already.
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I find my 12 Pro w/MK very portable, much more so than my MBS or MBP. YMMV

F-B-Z said:
Instead, I would buy a 11- or 12-inch Macbook with macOS (as in not ipadOS) in a heartbeat.
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Eleven inches would be way to small for serious work, IMHO; and 12 too close to the 13 to be worthwhile in the lineup.

F-B-Z said:
On such a device, you could get real work done while on the road, as opposed to the horrific experience with work apps on the iPad.
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Depends on the use case. I know people who use an ipad on the road becasue it is perfect for their needs and a MBA or Pro would not.

I’ve used mine while traveling for work and find it a useful adjunct to my MBP I use for work. It may not be as full featured as teh MBP; but it has a good subset that makes it a useful tool, for me.

Each product fits certain use cases better than the other.

ducknalddon said:
I think this would be a really poor decision. You just need to look at how that went for Microsoft to see you will end up with the worst of both worlds.
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I know several people who have Surfaces and ditched them for real laptops because of poor build quality and they simply never used them as a tablet and found them lacking as a laptop. As for touch screen laptops, anecdotally, all the people I know who have one use the touch screen to scroll and find it otherwise easier to use the keyboard and mouse.
 
would like bigger as the current model is too small but also better aspect ratio, 16x9 for better menu allocation when working in pro apps
 
q64ceo said:
Might as well just release a Mac with a touch screen like the MS Surface. 14 inches is a bit big for a tablet.
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Artists will take a 16in iPad if they could. And anyone getting a 13in iPad are mostly artists. Why are we complaining about a product that is not even targeted at us? It's not like we don't have an iPad mini or 11in iPad.
 
m4mario said:
Artists will take a 16in iPad if they could. And anyone getting a 13in iPad are mostly artists. Why are we complaining about a product that is not even targeted at us? It's not like we don't have an iPad mini or 11in iPad.
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I suspect there a a significant percentage of the 12.9 iPad Pro that are not artists but want the larger screen for other things besides drawing, as a second monitor when traveling or preferring more space for videos, writing, spreadsheets, etc.
 
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frost_horizon said:
The iPad for me became such a useless device honestly. I have Kindle Oasis that covers all my needs in reading (except some PDFs and writing, so I will switch to Scribe next Prime Days). I have M2 Max MacBook Pro that covers all my professional and educational activity. And I have iPhone 13 Pro Max that covers all iOS-like experience that iPad delivers.

I just don’t see how can I use an iPad in its current state. It cannot replace MacBook. Even with Magic Keyboard it feels bulky and unnatural to use. It cannot offer something drastically more than iPhone (except Apple Pencil support). And if you’re not drawing in Procreate, it becomes useless for you.

I had iPad Pro 2017 for 6 years that I changed for iPad Pro M2 11". And I sold it after 3 months just because I understood that it just doesn’t fit well in any of my processes.
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Same here.
Apple has castrated the iPad in two ways: it cannot run macOS apps, despite the M1 SoC, and it cannot run iPhone apps such as Phone, WhatsApp, Watch, etc.

Still, my family use iPads instead of "normal" computers.
 
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USB-Adapter said:
Same here.
Apple has castrated the iPad in two ways: it cannot run macOS apps, despite the M1 SoC,
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Putting MacOS on an iPad would be a big bag of hurt. Either you would have to have a keyboard or programs would need to recognize when it’s an iPad and change how fields are completed; or you would have to use the on screen keyboard covering much of the screen space, as one example. As a result the UI would be inconsistent and frustrate users. Not a good thing.
USB-Adapter said:
and it cannot run iPhone apps such as Phone, WhatsApp, Watch, etc.
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It’s not a phone. Watch needs to have a data connection to use many features so pairing with non-cellular iPads would limit the watch to a few basic functions.
 
Has anyone figured out why the Buyer’s Guide says Caution for the iPad Pro 11, but Neutral for the iPad Pro 12.9? Is there any chance they will release a new iPad Pro 11 without updating the 12.9 at the same time?
 
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