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Apple Launching A9X-Based 12.9" iPad Pro in November for $799+
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Tablet sales are declining, and Apple doubles down. Thinking different, all right. Apple killed the floppy, optical media, and mortally wounded SCSI. Maybe the long term plan is to kill the laptop as well.
Give it a few versions, and say good bye to anything resembling a Macbook Air/Macbook.
I have been saying this for a while. With a keyboard it can be an Air. A few more changes in OS to make everything across all products the same it will be the laptop in place of what we call a laptop now.
Ummm... refined, high quality version of something we had before is exactly what innovation is.
innovate - make changes in something established, especially by introducing new methods, ideas, or products.
The pencil looked like it had some unique hardware inside it. Plus the screen had some special sauce too.
Apple didn't use off-the-shelf parts... they made their own version.
And that describes precisely the word "innovation"
Don't most bluetooth pens cost around the same price?
If that's the case, they should include it.
I wonder how the high end model with accessories at $1350 will compete with the i7 Surface Pro using the new Skylake CPUs?
Haha since when did apple include anything? Be glad you get a charger
Mini with the guts of an iPad Air 2? Now that might be nice - barely a mention!
Hmmm, this would be great for my mom, a much bigger screen and a better keyboard. I might be better off with an iPad Mini 4 and the usual desktop.
It's a start.
I don't think OS X is the right solution, but the OS needs to be much more powerful to compete with the likes of the Surface Pro.
And man... that price
I don't think OS X is the right solution, but the OS needs to be much more powerful to compete with the likes of the Surface Pro.
And man... that price
I think this gives a Skylake based Surface Pro lots of room to grow in the market.
I really welcome the arrival of a real stylus. Finally! Doing cartwheels! Hoping like crazy it's pencil-on-paper accurate and that palm rejection is totally solved (kind of like a Wacom tablet). However, and it kills me to say this, at $950 for the mid-iPad Pro version, plus $100 for the stylus, plus $170 for the keyboard, we're totaling $1220 and I'm *never* *ever* going to pay that much for this functionality :-(. Seriously, what were their marketing guys thinking!
Move over Wacom Cintiq. This is now at the top of my wish list (and I'll save a few bucks!)