yeah merging the iPad Air with the MacBook Air and bringing one of those Lenovo Miix type things to the market 10 years late is actually not that bad of an idea.
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Apple Just Broke a Tradition It Held for 12 Years
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I'd rather wait for software that makes use of they offer, instead of even more overpowered hardware.
I don't have any use for a personal iPad, but we have a family model that just uses a generic family appleID. It's a few years old, but still ridiculously fast for what it does. Apple needs to offer logins, same as macOS, instead of m2 or m3 chips that gets used for little more than high-resolution iPhone activities.
iPads haven't been able to take advantage of the silicon inside them for years as it is. No harm in skipping a year frankly.
They released The most eco friendly iPad ever. So eco friendly it has zero effect on the environment, takes up zero space, and is free.
That was 2022 wasn't it? There was absolutely nothing new in the iPhone 14 series except a bigger notch.
I’ve said this before and here it is once more: I just hope they keep one model with a 3.5mm jack.
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Oh no. People are going to start claiming Apple is doomed again like they used too...lol. Big deal. No new iPads. Not like they need updating every year. I wish these tech companies would move away from yearly hardware updates and take more time with software releases.
needs to release a small iPad like the touch to save their company's bacon.
It's less important now because the processor gains each year are of far less significance.
I somehow doubt that… it’s probably a mix of focusing on the Vision Pro and supply chain issues for new parts, such as OLED panels.
The plus side to this is that there were some fantastic iPad deals this holiday season - the 9th generation back down to $250 USD and the 10th generation at $350. The latter price for the 10th generation seems much more appropriate for what you get. These deals tend to be directed by Apple, not by retailers, and I doubt they'd be as aggressive with pricing if a new model were out.
Was it though I’m still using a 2018 iPad Pro and plan to finally upgrade when they release the next model. However my current iPad still is snappy and fast
Simplifying??
Ready for when the iPhone 17 is the size of the iPad and the fun really begins.
I really want to get a large OLED iPad Pro for several reasons, but I require a built-in headphone jack if they want that kind of money. It’s been a deal-breaker for me for years already, but iOS Logic Pro just makes it sadder (the ‘choice’ of unworkable headphone lag or having to deal with adapters makes the whole thing far less appealing to me - I might as well be on my mac if I lose the freedom of being as mobile, and have to pay a subscription on top for the privilege!!). I want to give them my money, but they don’t seem to want it that much. Oh well.
None of those are new features. Those are all iterations of existing features.
They had to because the iPad 3 was badly designed. They should never have released it. And at the time nobody seemed to care, any time I mentioned it all anyone said was basically “boo hoo.”
I mean at some point there will be. But not for the foreseeable future.
Glad to see at least two other people commiserating with my experience with that damn thing. I noticed that it wasn’t very high performance when I got it, and then yes the next iOS update made it worse, and then the one after that made it so stuttery and slow I quit using it.
The fact that it was junk after just two years, and that they replaced it in 7 months and then sold its replacement for FIVE YEARS, tells me they knew it was junk but they sold it anyway.
It was the first iPad with Retina Display but it had the same SOC as the iPad before it with just a little bit more graphics power and it clearly was not enough.
I’m using the same iPad. I feel iOS 17 has started to slow it down a bit. Animations are starting to stutter a little bit.
When I first saw the ipad in 2010 I thought “Holy crap that’s the future.” When I saw the 12.9” in 2015 I said “Finally the pencil.” When my 7 year old ipad was limping along I saw the 2022 12.9” ipad with new pencil I said “Maybe I’ve milked the 7 year old one enough, I’d like to checkout the Magic Keyboard thing.”
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The M3 upgrade doesn’t relegate the M2 in remotely the same way that the iPad 4 did to the iPad 3. The iPad 3 was discontinued while the M2 is and will continue to be sold for at least another 3 months, if the M3 MBA rumors are actually true. Personally, Apple would be better off leaving the MBA at the M2 until at least WWDC 2024, while making the Spring Event all about the iPad.
I was burned by the iPad 4 rollout like others here, but the M3 release just doesn’t remotely rise to that level.
I didn't know they sold the iPad 4 for 5 years! Wow. The iPad 3 situation was frustrating, and a very poor show. My main use for it was to accompany me for a year on a round the world trip, back when a lot of websites were not adapted for mobile phone use, and at least it served that function well. After travelling I went back to using my 2011 MacBook Air, which worked well for years (well, except for the battery committing suicide prematurely twice).
