Needs to cut down more in price. Update of the pro should be in October since the current model was announce in October last year. The Samsung tablets already have OLED in their $399 tablets. Apple iPad pros needs OLED and a price drop.
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Apple Cuts Price of 1TB iPad Pro Models by $200
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Even worse considering you can get a 2TB Intel 660p NVME SSD for $180.
https://www.microcenter.com/product...80-pcie-nvme-30-x4-internal-solid-state-drive
For the price of a blown up limited iPod you can build a nice desktop with money left over for a laptop and tablet.
Backup, restore, updates, etc. for iOS devices are now built right into the Finder. It works pretty well actually.
OK thanks. That's REALLY vague. I don't think we can read much into that.
This, 100%. I use iMovie SOMETIMES. If you're editing a 4K project with 30 minutes of footage, between different projects and video cuts and apps, you could be using up to 100GB easily, even for a short time, even if your final product export ends up being a couple of gigabytes.
Really insulting that Apple still starts at 64GB when you can fill that with literally one sizable iMovie project.
You want more storage? That'll come at 4x the market price for storage. You already have a smaller device? Sucks to suck!
I have 2TB of iCloud storage and a 256GB iPad. my iPad offloads videos and stuff to iCloud, despite having ample space on my device. It's really annoying when I want to edit something and I need to wait a few minutes, in the foreground, for it to download.
You live in the wrong country. Maybe the Brexxit was not the best idea.....
Honestly, I don't think Apple will do that...I think it more likely that they will continue 64GB, 256GB, 512GB, 1TB and reserve the 6GB of DRAM for the 1TB only. Or put in 6GB of DRAM across the board but leave the same storage points. Remember when Apple introduced the very first iPad Pro in 2015 with only 32GB of storage for $799? Expect at least one more Gen of the iPP with 64GB starting storage.
I'm tempted by the cost reduction, although if the the 2020 iPad Pro ends up with the identical three camera system of the iPhone 11 Pro, that would be my next purchase.
Agreed. I understood that statement to mean: within the last year we have updated all of the iPads except this one we’re announcing today.
iPad Pro is not on a one-year refresh cycle, it’s something like 16-18 months. I personally don’t expect an update until around March.
Samsung makes their own panels, they can afford to use them. OLED panels meeting Apple’s requirements, at 11 to 13” could add $300 or more to the selling price.
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While an entry level 11" at 128 GB would be perfect for me, I would consider a 256 GB model too.
Truthfully, I don't really need 6 GB, but I can wait nonetheless, so I may as well wait. My wife is only mildly complaining that she is currently iPad-less. I figure I have a few months before she gets too annoyed for not having an iPad (which would be my hand-me-down 2017 10.5" Pro).
It's something like 16 months, but it's hard to say since there have only been 3 generations total. However, a pre-Xmas update after 12 months would be good for sales, esp. in the era of iPadOS 13 and Photoshop for iPad. I betcha Photoshop for iPad will get a prominent on-stage showing in October.
Hope all of you find a way out of this nightmare and rejoin us Europeans....
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I've tried to make this argument with the Intel SSDs before and got attacked by people for using a cheap SSD for comparison, so I went high-end. Still insane. Samsung has a 4TB SATA SSD for $500.
I'll probably buy the lowest-end model next time and use external storage. I'm so done paying Apple Tax on storage upgrades.
Feel free to let us know when you have designed and developed your own tablet and plan on releasing it to the public, we'd love to know how much its going to cost to purchase at launch. We'll be waiting...most of us have the time, some don't...be mindful.
You'd better hope Apple and 3rd party applications will make better use of external storage.
While this new external storage feature in iPadOS is very welcome, it's currently still a PITA. You can't treat it like internal storage yet, and some applications don't even recognize it. That will change, but if you need the storage soon to actually use it seamlessly on your iPad, I'd suggest you buy it as internal storage.
In my case all I need is 128 GB, so it's not as critical for me. I can even function fine with 64 GB with my current usage, but it's cramped.
That doesn't explain the difference in price between the storage options... Make the 256gb version $100 bucks more than the 64gb, not $150. Or maybe since appletv+ is included for a year they are making their money back that way too.
Not true. If you have to work in remote locations, you may not have the luxury of the high speed connection that iCloud, Dropbox, or even our own intranet requires.
Here's a more complete scenario for you: I have to work on a remote demolition job and follow complex plans, and per regulations have to have gigs worth of safety documents and scans, and other data that can be presented to customers and officials as required. Many of these files can be over a half of a gigabyte or more in size. We also have to document (high res video and photos) existing condition for legal purposes, etc. Is my 1TB full, no. It's about 50% often enough though. I want and often need the buffer and minimal speed increase the extra space allows.
I'm on it! Let me know when tickets for your Apple Justification Tour go on sale!
I was afraid about this. Would offloading files to local storage and then importing to apps work better?
Just get the 128G... oh wait
Hmmmm... as that would totally wipe out Apple’s 21% net margin (and then some), that wouldn’t be prudent.