To protect the sales of the 9.7" iPad Pro (which one year ago also was still the current iPad Pro, it got replaced with the 10.5" iPad Pro only three months later).
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Apple Launches New 9.7-Inch iPad With Apple Pencil Support, $299 for Schools and $329 for Consumers
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RE: "iPad Like a computer. Unlike any computer."
(Some) Good news to Report, Apple listened to us who Ripped on them for their "What's a Computer" TV commercial (marketing) strategy !
But, $99 MORE for the Apple pencil makes it a Deal Breaker !
My Air2 is still better than this new one !
(Some) Good news to Report, Apple listened to us who Ripped on them for their "What's a Computer" TV commercial (marketing) strategy !
But, $99 MORE for the Apple pencil makes it a Deal Breaker !
My Air2 is still better than this new one !
As an educator, these prices are a joke. Get the price down to under 200 with the pencil included and a Smart Keyboard, and maybe, maybe you can compete with chrome books. Schools take years to work up the cash to invest in technology, and google is giving away software and unlimited storage for free. The chrome books are cheaper, and they have a keyboard. Apple is too little too late.
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So they can make small changes and people will buy the to-be-upgraded version later.
So they can make small changes and people will buy the to-be-upgraded version later.
Wow that was underwhelming to say the least. I'm not sure what impact this will have against Chromebooks and G Suite in education -none most likely. For the individual consumer it great to have an upgraded iPad that supports the pencil but Apple is really starting to look lost as an organisation.
The iPad Air 2 is only lighter because it has a much smaller battery.
iPad Air 2: 27.82 Whr
iPad (2017): 32.9 Whr
iPad (2018): 32.4 Whr
On battery life benchmarks, the iPad (2017) gets at least 1-2 hours more life compared to the Air 2.
Air 2 does not support ARKit because ARKit requires A9 or newer. Air 2 uses A8X.
Pencil requires iPad (2018) or iPad Pro. Air 2 does not support Pencil.
Sounds more like an apology because GPS can be turned on/off and can be used to find their way back when lost on a field trip. Next apology you'll tell us is kids don't go on field trips.
Aha! This is nice! Its not really an upgrade from my 9.7ipad Pro (can anyone say how much of a speed boost this would be? I have no speed issues with the iPp.. I would definitely take another 2GB of RAM though?), but it definitely means I won't be worrying about my screen real estate and worrying about app developers targeting the two larger sizes at my expense. 
I'm glad they're keeping the 9.7 size around.
A nice sturdy, relatively affordable iPad. I Love the Apple Pencil so much, and having all future iPads support the pencil is going to help show what they're capable of.
I'm glad they're keeping the 9.7 size around.A nice sturdy, relatively affordable iPad. I Love the Apple Pencil so much, and having all future iPads support the pencil is going to help show what they're capable of.
With all these comments about the new educational iPad, Apple will make the same margins or higher since they left out the expensive stuff like laminated display screen, "X" SoC and use cheap memory - LPDDR3 dated back to 2010.
Some unreliable rumors pointed at a $259 device.
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The iPad (2017) and iPad (2018) both use LPDDR4.
Amazon passed Apple in tech?? LOL. Good thing Amazon discontinued their Fire Phone. They probably just wanted to give Apple a few years to catch up.
Because Some rumors were indicating a $260 price point originally for the 2018 iPad, which the A9 still would have sufficed in some respects. And its called being cost prohibitive for a budget entry-level iPad. It doesn’t necessarily need the A10 fusion (Considering it was also only used in the iPhone 7), as even the A9 would still be considerable coupled with two GB of RAM. Also to the fact, no one expected Apple to implement the A10 fusion from the iPhone into the iPad.
True- but iWork doesn't cost anything extra while Office does. You need a 365 subscription to edit files on iOS.
I doubt that schools would included cellular LTE option in their PO since it is $129 more per iPad and then the cost of the service too! Prohibitive cost wise!
Students and teachers can get Office 365 for free.
The question is upgrade and all upgrade options support Pencil now. Also, if you want to upgrade, you definitely does not want to buy one physically identical to the previous version.
As I listed, iPad 2018 is physically identical as iPad Air (weight and thickness). For an iPad Air 2 user, it is definitely a backwards, not an upgrade.
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So are the only updates a bump in processor and Apple Pencil support?
I might be upgrading my parents iPad and I'm trying to decide if I wanna get a used 2017 model or the 2018 model. They won't use a pencil either way.... so would it be like $100 for a bump from A9 to A10?
I might be upgrading my parents iPad and I'm trying to decide if I wanna get a used 2017 model or the 2018 model. They won't use a pencil either way.... so would it be like $100 for a bump from A9 to A10?
What's really disturbing is it seems like Apple is literally in their own bubble.
It's complete common sense what you've said, and has been for years, and this is their "education effort"?
Do they perhaps just only care about Education for really rich kids?
Maybe that's it...
I just don't understand why they think this is compelling at all.
I dig it. I've been wanting an iPad just for reading pdfs, books, hanging on facebook in bed, annotating legal documents, etc. Something solely for consumption to not have to use my laptop but that I can write on...and I REALLY didn't want to pay $600 + $99 just for the ability to do that.
Since I'm a teacher I can pay $300 and pay $80 for the pencil. That's a lot easier to swallow - especially since the iPad Pro is likely to be refreshed with smaller bezels and Face ID this summer. It makes it a lot easier to pass my iPad down to one of the kids and upgrade.
Since I'm a teacher I can pay $300 and pay $80 for the pencil. That's a lot easier to swallow - especially since the iPad Pro is likely to be refreshed with smaller bezels and Face ID this summer. It makes it a lot easier to pass my iPad down to one of the kids and upgrade.
1. If your kids disappear while on a field trip that you're leading, then you suck as a trip organizer.
2. GPS without LTE is useless if you're trying to get directions and you hadn't spent the time to download offline maps to every device.
3. Not all field trips go to a farm in the middle of nowhere.
That's the point. On non-Apple WIFI-only device, GPS is included at no additional cost.