This is a joke, this is not a machine for the pro's, it is on a phone os, god damn it. Bring me back the macbook pro 17", please.
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Apple Launching A9X-Based 12.9" iPad Pro in November for $799+
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I think in the UK this will retail for £649 (inc VAT) for the 32GB version and £799 (incl VAT) for the 128GB version. That doesn't include the keyboard, which looks like it'll retail here for possibly as high as £149 (incl. VAT). The high end just isn't worth it, you can get a refurbished 2015 13 inch retina Macbook Pro for £849 (incl VAT) with 8GB ram and 128GB SSD. Unless you're desperate for a giant iPad, which you draw on and attach to a smart keyboard.
Can't wait to see Asian people taking pictures with these.
Idk about that. It seems like a bigger niche product market than the iPad has targeted.
Can they take photos and selfies on a beach with Raccoons in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico while they're at a resort?
The biggest question on everyone's mind is: where do we go from here with tablets?
I suppose a lot of us expected Apple to lead the way, and I guess today they sowed the seeds. But we're still far off from an answer and in reality, Apple just skirted by the question another year.
That's fine, we don't need an answer necessarily in 2015 with everything else going on with TVs and music and watches... The current reality is that the macbook and the iPad pro is as close to the middle as we're going to get, or as far as Apple wants to go really.
The issue is the answer relates directly to the futures of Mac OS (now in it's 16th year of support? approaching Windows XP in age is where I'd like to see how they really handle themselves) and iOS (which is experiencing its own maturity and path that really hasn't been blazed by any other kind of consumer software) and that isn't something Apple will take lightly.
I suppose a lot of us expected Apple to lead the way, and I guess today they sowed the seeds. But we're still far off from an answer and in reality, Apple just skirted by the question another year.
That's fine, we don't need an answer necessarily in 2015 with everything else going on with TVs and music and watches... The current reality is that the macbook and the iPad pro is as close to the middle as we're going to get, or as far as Apple wants to go really.
The issue is the answer relates directly to the futures of Mac OS (now in it's 16th year of support? approaching Windows XP in age is where I'd like to see how they really handle themselves) and iOS (which is experiencing its own maturity and path that really hasn't been blazed by any other kind of consumer software) and that isn't something Apple will take lightly.
I guess the point is that Microsoft was (according to the comic strip anyhow) ridiculed for the approach Apple now seems to take with the iPad Pro.
The iPad Pro is beautiful but it looks like a "no go" for me because it doesn't have "3D touch"! Can anyone confirm that the iPad Pro does or does not have 3D touch?
Introducing iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus with 3D Touch
I wondered that too because all of the first shots showed the hand raised above the display, which would be really uncomfortable. Then that last one showed the hand resting on it. I assume it is up to the developers, but I would think you could have an app setting to only take input from the Pencil (assuming the iPad can identify the Pencil uniquely) and ignore all other touch.
I just don't think I can pull myself to get 2014's iPad Air 2. Especially with the build quality issue.s
It's targeting roughly the same market the Surface 3 is, which, last I heard, was doing pretty well for itself.
I doubt it'll fly off shelves, raking in iPhone like profits in the process, but people will buy it, and Apple will make money off of it.
We could equally say the Surface is running a freaking desktop OS. That's right, an OS designed and taylor made for a mouse and keyboard on a tablet to be used with touch and without a keyboard or mouse. (Now, the Surface is more like an ultralight laptop and is not used as much as tablet without a keyboard.)
You can argue that a phone OS is useless for a tablet. But we can equally argue that a desktop OS is useless for a tablet. And we might both be right. But that doesn't tell us anything whether a tablet OS should be closer to a phone or a desktop OS. However, given that a tablet is primarily used with your fingers, I think we can argue that a phone OS is much closer to an ideal tablet OS than a desktop OS relying on mouse and cursor.
I would've been upgrading from an iPad 3 ... be damned if I'm going to buy year-old technology in an iPad Air2.
They've taken the Surface Pro 3 and made it worse - a pen that needs to charge, an OS that does so much less than Windows 10, a keyboard with no trackpad, and a kickstand that isn't built in and isn't adjustable. eMMC storage that's much slower than an SSD, no legacy support, no full size USB, no DisplayPort... overall both the hardware and software are so much worse than the competition, it's embarassing. A first for Apple.
Seriously? You think that saving a $10 component would have changed anything in Apple's pricing?
You obviously haven't used Windows 10. It's an OS designed extremely well for touch and desktop use, and converts as soon as you remove the keyboard.
Except windows 8 and 10 is also designed for touch as well..... and runs perfectly great with touch.
Yes, of course. Everybody would like to have a laptop with 'desktop' OS and a tablet with a touch-based OS in a single device in order to only having to carry one device.
It will set you back £1000... I think I would rather get myself a MB or a MBA, if I were in the market for a portable device.
