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Apple Delaying Mass Production of 12.9-Inch iPad to Deal with Strong iPhone 6 Plus Demand
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Honestly, I'll believe this when I see this - given how many leaks this site perpetuates as news articles (oh look its the new iPhone home button and internal dock connector cable)... I'm surprised no parts have shown up pertaining the mythical 12" iPad Pro and 12" Retina Air.
I believe the 12.9 iPad is designed to push the iPad into new, more PC-like territory. It will coincide with new 'pro' software (perhaps a touch Final Cut Pro and Logic, use of Adobe Suite with touch control), feature a powerful processor, super sharp display, ultra sensitive touch control (including allowing the use of a real stylus which makes sense for pro users), new ways of allowing apps to interact with each other, and new ways of interfacing with external devices. Probably not all of this right away, but this is the eventual dream of the iPad Pro.
I see this device being a bigger deal than many are anticipating. It will be a huge hit with people in design, photography, animation, filmmaking... Similar market as the MacBook Pro essentially. This is a completely natural evolution of the iPad in the direction it's always been intended to head in, and now the technology to make it possible has arrived. This could really be awesome and a total game-changer.
...new Apple product covering new territory, another round of disbelievers, doubters, and haters... and it'll be a great product and a huge hit. What a surprise.
I see this device being a bigger deal than many are anticipating. It will be a huge hit with people in design, photography, animation, filmmaking... Similar market as the MacBook Pro essentially. This is a completely natural evolution of the iPad in the direction it's always been intended to head in, and now the technology to make it possible has arrived. This could really be awesome and a total game-changer.
...new Apple product covering new territory, another round of disbelievers, doubters, and haters... and it'll be a great product and a huge hit. What a surprise.
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I have to agree with the majority here. I don't see a big enough market to justify a "big iPad" on it's own. If it's really just the screen for or a hybrid new MacBook Air/ detachable iPad that's a different story.
If you kept your eyes and ears open, you would have noticed that Adobe just announced that it added touch interfaces for its destop apps, Photoshop and Illustrator, to run on 2-in-1 devices like the Surface Pro 3. I'm thinking the new iPad will be able to run such apps.
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The unicorn ipad pro will probably be similar to the surface pro 3. And with that rumor of it running somehow osx and ios together in some form will make it a pretty cool device. It may not be selling as well as microsoft would hope but the pro 3 is pretty good and from many reviews online people seem to like it again not translating to sales but its a good indication of what a apple product similar to it can offer. I personaly would love an ipad pro. Well see what happens during the announcement or in the next couple months.
They're not saying it does.
However, making parts smaller and more efficient, to enable a thinner design does require innovative thinking. Just that the thought of a thinner product isn't in itself an innovative thought.
I still don't get that mockup pic. How can a 12.9" screen be BIGGER than a 13" screen? And quite a lot too. Honestly that would be more like a 15" iPad. Or a 12.9" iPad next to a 11" MBA.
If Apple wants to truly shake up the iPad line to counter slumping sales, they should release a 4.7" & 5.5" iPod Touch. They're more iPad than iPod anyway. I think more people would buy a 5.5" iPod Touch aka iPad Nano than would buy a 12.9" iPad pro. But I like the idea of a 12.9" iPad pro as well. ;-)
A splitscreen multitasking is one of the most important feature that today prevents using an iPad as a productivity tool. A lot of productivity work consists of transforming a incoming information in a outbound information. You need to read your emails, surf the web to, or read another document to obtain information in order to write another document.
As for the resolution, I would see more chance to see a 3072x2304 Retina@x3 screen.
Indeed. But there is a crucial difference - a larger phone made sense. A larger ipad does not. Who the hell wants a 12.9inch tablet? That would be totally impractical. There is also the rumoured fanless 12" macbook air - a product which makes far more sense. Now why would Apple be working on a 12"ish MBA and a 12"ish ipad that would only end up as direct competitors ??? No siree - I say there is one product - the 12" MBA. These reports of a 12"ipad are most likely simply confusing information relating to the MBA for the ipad.
Outside chance Apple are doing the unthinkable and making a MS Surface competitor - i.e. tablet form with attachable keyboard that would explain origin of both rumoured products. But given the abject failure that is Surface, I don't think that is likely.
Neither does the 5.5" iPhone remember
It's a stupid size for a phone and no one wants one.
It is because iPads have a 4:3 screen ratio and MacBook Air 13" has 16:10 ratio.
So the display area would indeed be much larger on a 12,9" ipad than on a 13" macbook.
Breakthrough discovery there. I take it you're one who expects apple to make a completely revolutionary product every year?
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I agree. All the android multitasking solutions look so cumbersome and terrible. I would never use them. Let's stop trying to make tablets what they're not, productivity devices. They excel at consumption, that's what they should focus on.
Making tablets gizmos for noodling on the World Wide Web and consuming content is what's seen their sales slide. They are just not essential enough unless they can be, for at least some users, laptop alternatives.
Like a Microsoft Surface? I could dig that. Flexibility of a tablet combined with the usability and productivity of a laptop
I have been a member here for a while and almost never post anything, but I would like to on this one, just to get an idea out for and a bit of fun.
I think that Apple may have a convergence strategy in place that actually doesn't involve any actual converging. I think it involves remote desktop.
It may have been Lion, I think, where Apple really raised the bar on remote desktop for a consumer OS. Where you could log into a mac with a different user account than what was being used at the time and use the mac as a different user. I always thought that this would be extremely useful if I could access from my iPad, especially with faster ac wifi available.
In fact, some of the new feature over the years like Launchpad and Mission Control seemed like a perfect fit for remote touch access. The whole power of my Mac at my fingertips.
Then Apple and IBM talked about working together, and I immediately thought of a corporate system that could embrace and consumer product. Imagine that you could use you 'so called' consumer iPad but work with the power of your company server! All you would need is a system powerful enough to serve a desktop environment to you at any time and you would be good to go for many tasks.
I think that it is easy to extrapolate this tech into a hybrid system that allows certain tasks to be performed on the iPad and others on the more powerful server. It could then allow companies like IBM to provide the horsepower and companies could buy fairly inexpensive iPads as client systems.
I could go on for hours on how I think this could work but I think that you will get what I am saying. It is almost a throwback to mainframe years gone by.
I am Probably reading to much into it all, but it is a thought I have had for a while now.
Cheers
Ape Man
I think that Apple may have a convergence strategy in place that actually doesn't involve any actual converging. I think it involves remote desktop.
It may have been Lion, I think, where Apple really raised the bar on remote desktop for a consumer OS. Where you could log into a mac with a different user account than what was being used at the time and use the mac as a different user. I always thought that this would be extremely useful if I could access from my iPad, especially with faster ac wifi available.
In fact, some of the new feature over the years like Launchpad and Mission Control seemed like a perfect fit for remote touch access. The whole power of my Mac at my fingertips.
Then Apple and IBM talked about working together, and I immediately thought of a corporate system that could embrace and consumer product. Imagine that you could use you 'so called' consumer iPad but work with the power of your company server! All you would need is a system powerful enough to serve a desktop environment to you at any time and you would be good to go for many tasks.
I think that it is easy to extrapolate this tech into a hybrid system that allows certain tasks to be performed on the iPad and others on the more powerful server. It could then allow companies like IBM to provide the horsepower and companies could buy fairly inexpensive iPads as client systems.
I could go on for hours on how I think this could work but I think that you will get what I am saying. It is almost a throwback to mainframe years gone by.
I am Probably reading to much into it all, but it is a thought I have had for a while now.
Cheers
Ape Man
Apple will announce the product next week, but it won't be available until 2015 (the new typical Apple)
