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Austin Mann uses an iPad Pro as part of his photography workflow and basically uses it to house all his photos and videos taken. It’s practically like an external drive in this regard.
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Apple Cuts Price of 1TB iPad Pro Models by $200
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http://austinmann.com/trek/ipad-pro-photographer-iceland
Austin Mann uses an iPad Pro as part of his photography workflow and basically uses it to house all his photos and videos taken. It’s practically like an external drive in this regard.
Unless you work in procurement at Apple AND you just decided to break your legally binding NDA, you don’t know the cost of ANY of the components that go into the iPad, you just think you do.
Your methodology is flawed, regardless...your pricing it like it’s a PC parts list from Computer Shopper. Knock it off.
The cost of the device has to pay for the hardware and software research, design and development, the industrial design, the screen design, the chemists making the battery, the raw materials, the assembly, the packaging, the transport, the marketing, the staff at the retail stores, the designers. You’re simply cherry picking the part you don’t like about the price and then comparing it to the retail cost difference of finished storage and then “coming up with the price you like, or your opinion likes”, which means absolutely not a damn thing in the real world. Either buy it or don’t buy it...if the cost is not to your taste, please proceed to Android land, they are waiting for you. Go now, they’ll hold the train for you. Go. Go now.
I seem to recall a whole lot of discussion around the paradox of choice in my marketing and promotion courses back in college. That is the main problem with a lack of cohesion when trying to sell to people. It's as clear as mud to your average Joe what they should buy if they want an iPad.
Those model numbers were registered in Europe, in July and earlier. A total of seven models were registered.
Interestingly, info just posted by GSM Arena lists three model numbers for the iPad 10.2", and those correspond exactly to three of the seven registered names in Europe, which in turn means that four names still remain unclaimed by existing iPads.
The other interesting fact that was mentioned by a poster here was that typically the lag time between the registration of the product model number and the actual release of the product has been within 6 months or less. If the last number was registered in July, that would suggest new iPads would be coming by Jan. 2020 or earlier.
Yes, it's true that different modems mean a different model number. As I understand it, often there are 4 names per product, but that includes stuff like modems for China that I presume don't necessarily have to be registered in Europe. I'm not sure a specific North American model would be registered there either. That means for the iPad Pro they would probably need 4-6 model numbers registered, or 2-3 per iPad Pro size.
This information, plus the fact that both Ming-Chi Kuo and Mark Gurman believe iPad Pros are coming in the next few months, gives support to the belief that we may get new iPad Pros before spring 2020.
Not sure why you even need to mention it.
It’s a given and at some point devolves to someone spewing the inevitable, “If Steve were alive”.
If you travel a lot and want to make sure you have enough movies, music and games to keep you entertained away from an Internet connection. People who use their iPad for photo/video editing. Digital artists. I could fill a terabyte if I had to.
Steven Jackson used iPods (firewire) to physically move video files during their filming of LOTR. It was a "cheap" high speed portable drive.
The iPad line is so confusing.
Also it was pretty bad to present only the regular iPad upgrade. So now the regular iPad has a faster processor than the iPad Pro?
It is quite of a joke to have an iPad "Pro" with 64Gb. iPad Pros should start at 256GB.
And reducing only the 1tb model price is also quite of a joke.
ALL THE STORAGE PRICES ARE GOING DOWN, NOT JUST THE 1TB.
$1350 and $1550 for an iPad Pro, is quite overpriced for what it is.
Also it was pretty bad to present only the regular iPad upgrade. So now the regular iPad has a faster processor than the iPad Pro?
It is quite of a joke to have an iPad "Pro" with 64Gb. iPad Pros should start at 256GB.
And reducing only the 1tb model price is also quite of a joke.
ALL THE STORAGE PRICES ARE GOING DOWN, NOT JUST THE 1TB.
$1350 and $1550 for an iPad Pro, is quite overpriced for what it is.
500gb Videos, 400gb music, 70gb pictures, 30gb documents
I have lots of games downloaded like Skyrim with 30gb worth of mods downloaded, Witcher 3 etc.. I have at least 3 virtual machine not including Bluestacks, a few movies and music and I still have 200gb+ available in my 1TB ssd
honestly I don't have practical idea for the use case scenario ofr a 1TB tablet Not ironic. It's coincidental.
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Kudos? Sales were slow, certainly, and inventory is piling up.
Totally agree.
Cause they have already introduced a “new” iPad in spring 2019 with iPad Air 3
Now a “new” iPad 10.2 (A10) yesterday
There cannot possibly be a third “new” iPad in the same year. That would be so remote
The A12x was so far ahead in terms of power. Apple doesn’t need to compete with itself and can milk the iPad Pro 2018 lineup for another 6-7 months. Maybe another 12 months.
Remember the iPad Pro 10.5 with A10x processor released in June 2017. It was running A10 (X) and the standard A10 was released in Sept 2016 with the iPhone 7
The A12X was released just weeks after the A12 iPhone XS/XR released.
All signs point to no new iPad Pro for 2019. I just don’t see any mention of an A13X in any rumors
- iPad Pro 12.9in (1st gen): Nov 2015
- iPad Pro 9.7in: Mar 2016
- iPad Pro 12.9in (2nd gen): Jun 2017
- iPad Pro 10.5in: Jun 2017
- iPad Pro 12.9in (3rd gen): Nov 2018
- iPad Pro 11in: Nov 2018
As mentioned before, after the iPad mini 5 and the iPad Air 3, seven new iPads were registered in Europe back, with the latest registered in July 2019.
We recently found out that three of them appear to be the various 10.2" iPads. That still leaves four iPads that were officially registered a couple of months ago yet which are still unaccounted for.
I was more surprised at the lack of an updated ATV considering the Arcade push. Also, the iPad Pro was over-powered when it shipped. (rare for Apple) It has been waiting for iPadOS this entire time. No need for a refresh yet.
When I used to travel for business overseas I could easily go through my entire movie/TV library on the iPad in the first couple of flights so started taking an external HDD with wifi connectivity so I could take more stuff with me. If I was doing the same level of travelling I would go 1TB especially given increases in file sizes over the past few years with higher quality shows/films available.
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Refer my other comment regarding travelling. In Australia my current phone plan has 60GB of data limit for a month - travelling overseas I get no data. Cloud is not a workable option for me already.
The cut in storage pricing is likely to help boost demand, not so much in response to dropping SSD prices (I suspect Apple likely has contracts which lock in the prices anyways).
I suspect the 256gb model is likely pretty popular (since as you mentioned, 64gb might not suffice for many a user). However, beyond that, if I don’t need 512gb or 1 tb of storage, I wouldn’t get an ipad with that much storage regardless of how cheap it is. Nevertheless, Apple could be trying to appeal to fence-sitters here. People who know they don’t need that much storage, but can’t resist the siren’s call of what appears to be a pretty good deal on a high-end ipad model.
Apple could also dump the last gen Intel modems too from rest of the line up.
i think it is Russia/eastern Europe (ex soviet ) and it is also a cryptographic device registry. Even if the radio doesn't match the region it is still yet another cryptographic device. (if the device can be carried into the country it would need to be registered. )
Most of Q1 2020 would be before Spring.
Gurman sources said there was going to be a "use iPhone as charging pad' feature that didn't manage to make it. I can see how the new phone messaging of "Pro" means 3 cameras that they'd move up the timeline of updating an iPad Pro. But this could be quite similar to the Mac Pro in that they talk about it and then don't 'ship' it for months. Or the iMac Pro where they just tweak the configurations to "fill time" while sort out their close to single file product roll outs.
Yes. Going by the dates, Jan/Feb. could make sense for a launch date.
However, I want to be optimistic and say Nov. 2019 is possible.
Attempts to decode registration-disclosed model numbers and derive meaningful information therefrom are usually completely off base. So I’m on shaky ground when I ask, if the 10.2” iPad consumed three model numbers, why wouldn’t the 11 and 12.9 iPads take six model numbers?
Also, it doesn’t seem to me there’s any urgency to rush out an A13X. I know you’d like it now, but I really don’t think Apple has anything to gain by cranking up the iPP release cadence. Few who bought last year would be eager to upgrade imo; sure the three camera system would be a nice upgrade but what’s the hurry? How many use the rear camera, would it really drive sales? If anything, it just steals demand from a future quarter.
Current iPad Pros are every bit as beastly as they were ten months ago. March 2020 wouldn’t surprise me, but neither would September 2020, with an A14X. As always, if you don’t _need_ it now, there will certainly be something better/faster/stronger coming along at some point, if you’re ok waiting.
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