Let's be brutally honest here for a moment.
People who choose Apple to start with, are not going to be THE most computer literate people anyway.
A post of ignorance to say the least, amongst other things...
Let's be brutally honest here for a moment.
People who choose Apple to start with, are not going to be THE most computer literate people anyway.
Part of the iPhone 4S to 6 difference is screen size, a change that doesn't apply to the iPad. But one would think the speed improvements should be similar (both iPhones and full-size iPads get the same yearly processor improvements). Although the cellular speed improvement is not there for WiFi iPad users and even for cellular iPad users the proportion of time spent on Wifi is probably larger on iPads than on iPhones (we don't walk around the city with an iPad in out hand and also much less so in the pocket than we do with iPhones which also affects how much we value TouchID). Ditto for Apple Pay.Between iPad 3 and iPad Air 2 there doesn't feel like a huge difference.
Yet between iPhone 4S and iPhone 6 it feels like a world of difference.
Even though both products have got thinner, lighter, much faster, better cameras, new designs, Touch ID, and Apple Pay. Both arguably have advanced together. Yet you don't feel it with iPad. I'm sure this perception comes down to marketing.
Meh, we are replacing all of our iPads with Surfaces at home. The kids love their Surfaces - particularly because they can plug in ... a MOUSE.
Just got my wife a Surface 3 last night to replace her iMac.
If Apple could crack that same market, they'd have a sure-fire-winner for our household. The sad part of going to the Surface was leaving behind all of the cool apps that we have on iOS.
BUT, this was the right move for us. An iPad Pro that ran iOS but had more computer friendly features for productivity? That would be the real end of the laptop for most people.
But it's a tricky walk, and I'm not sure that Apple's current software team is up for it, they seem to be making misstep after misstep. Apple Hardware continues to be excellent, but their SW seems to be getting more buggy as of late. We'll see.
But for us - no more iPads until something changes with its OS.
Let's be brutally honest here for a moment.
People who choose Apple to start with, are not going to be THE most computer literate people anyway.
I know this is going to upset many me saying it, but let's be honest with ourselves.
think it is cool how they flashed an iPad pro during the ad
Between iPad 3 and iPad Air 2 there doesn't feel like a huge difference.
Yet between iPhone 4S and iPhone 6 it feels like a world of difference.
Between iPad 3 and iPad Air 2 there doesn't feel like a huge difference.
Yet between iPhone 4S and iPhone 6 it feels like a world of difference.
Even though both products have got thinner, lighter, much faster, better cameras, new designs, Touch ID, and Apple Pay. Both arguably have advanced together. Yet you don't feel it with iPad. I'm sure this perception comes down to marketing.
Pricing would likely be a factor in all of that.But it seems people are not switching from non-Apple tablets (Android largely) to iPads in the same proportion. Because non-Apple tablet sales are outperforming iPad sales, the reverse of what it true in the computer market. Meaning, longer replacement cycles cannot explain the falling iPad sales alone (unless the relative increase of non-Apple tablet sales is only due to shorter replacement cycles for non-Apple tablets.)
The funny thing is, when you think about it.
THE very people who are most lightly to buy tablets,
and will be the least lightly to be on a upgrade for the sake of it path.
and sold it to the people less lightly to want a new version.
Until they address the memory limitations, these will never be ready for anything more than casual surfing. Ever try filling out an online form with more than a few fields? Web pages automatically refresh between tabs and its inability to work with two applications at the same time pretty much cripple it in real world usage.
That, as basically most desktop OSs do, had a different system of handling virtual memory and paging and swap files and all that.Why is this even an issue of memory? Geez, I used to have like 20 tabs open at once on my iMac G5 with 512MB of RAM, no problem.
Until the iPad has some functionality that my 6+ doesn't, there is no reason to upgrade my iPad 3. Honestly, the iPhone 6+ really made it questionable whether there is a reason for me to have an iPad in the first place when there is no real difference in the OS. Oh, except for the fact the iPad still doesn't have a calculator.