I’ve been using iPads since the 2, but I would never pay a significant price increase for an iPad unless it can run MacOS, has better battery life than my 13” M1, and comes with more RAM or SSD. I suspect the prince increase wont be that drastic, MiniLED only added $100 after all.
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Apple Expects to Sell Fewer OLED iPad Pros Than Planned
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Come on, keep raising prices Tim
If Tim really set the price that high, I might have switched to the Android ecosystem because of it.
Insatiable and frightening.
If Tim really set the price that high, I might have switched to the Android ecosystem because of it.
Insatiable and frightening.
OLED also has slight color shift at an angle. I use an OLED Tab S6, and you also have it on iPhones.
If you can afford it, you have no need for a calculator.
It has a calculator. Press CMD + Space and type your equation.
Yeah, no, I don’t believe the guesses that the OLED iPad Pros will start at $1500. Remember when MR published the 15” Air could cost between $1399-$1799?
Yeah, I’ll wait until we get more reliable information. If the 11” OLED iPad Pro really does start at $1500 then I guess my days of using iPads instead of MacBooks will be over. At that point I’ll just buy an upgraded MBA to replace my portable.
Such a shame, I’ve loved not owning a laptop and just using an iPad, but this would make it too expensive to continue.
Yeah, I’ll wait until we get more reliable information. If the 11” OLED iPad Pro really does start at $1500 then I guess my days of using iPads instead of MacBooks will be over. At that point I’ll just buy an upgraded MBA to replace my portable.
Such a shame, I’ve loved not owning a laptop and just using an iPad, but this would make it too expensive to continue.
Yes, they have ramped up production on specific iPhone models due to unexpectedly high demand. The iPhone 13 or 14 Pro Max, for example.
Yeah, which is why I don't really buy this rumor. Sure, the price will undoubtedly increase, but almost DOUBLE in a single generation? That seems really dubious. More likely it starts around 1k.
This. The 12.9 Air is going to put a big iPad within reach of more people. Most people don’t need certain features of the Pros. The Pro is marketed for a different consumer just like MacBook Pros.
This is probably what ill do, I want OLED but not at £1000+
I like the look of the Ultra tab 9 and it's always on sale for well under £1000, I only use it for entertainment anyway so Android 14 is fine for my use.
Comes with 120hz, 14.4" OLED, HDR10+, Atmos, landscape front camera and S-Pen.
I'll wait for the march event regardless.
I hope so too.
But will this iPad OS be split into Pro and non-Pro tiers, ie. you need the 2024 Pro to run the updated iPadOS? 🤷🏻♂️
There may be a color shift but I'm talking about total brightness. It dims just slightly. OLED doesn't seem to do that.
But this is such a minor thing (or not). Years ago it was so bad as to be unusable, as most of you remember. Then IPS, then OLED. Not sure if mini LED helps an IPS with this at all.
Id say an iPad will loss about 10% nits at extreme angles. Maybe even more.
It does on the OLED iPhone I’m presently typing on. It might be less than on the average LCD, but both have it.
I think Apple products are fast becoming something only the Davos crowd can afford.
And it seems Tim Cook is just A-OK with that.
Sad.
Put an OS other than Fisher-Price on it and maybe it'll sell better.
People will just keep using their existing iPads so I doubt paid content sales will diminished that much.
If those prices are true then the M2s are going to be very popular! I want a 12.9 this year but not for that price...
Well I hope people stop just gasping in shock and get booing instead of the usual sycophantic whooping and applause.
My advice would just be: buy a proper gaming device. An iPad Pro should have a different target than healthy game freaks.