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Apple Likely Planning October 24 Launch Date for New iPads
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Odd Timing
Am I the only one who finds the timing of the event Odd? Usually a big media event is at the beginning of the week so you can get people talking about it all week. Seems that by doing it on a Thursday they aren't planning any real big announcements.
Am I the only one who finds the timing of the event Odd? Usually a big media event is at the beginning of the week so you can get people talking about it all week. Seems that by doing it on a Thursday they aren't planning any real big announcements.
Which one would you rather fit in a backpack
In all seriousness though, if you get up to that size, what's the point? I'd rather just carry my MacBook pro. The iPad Air is the perfect size to carry around.
For me the larger phones are nice, very nice, but even the 6 plus is closer in size to the 5s than even the ipad mini.:
What you're describing is very likely, in fact it's exactly what Microsoft is going for with windows 10. We will see if they can do it right or if it is something that will take many years before it really perfected.
I agree. Another generation of consumer iPads is neither here nor there. But a 12" Pro, with detachable keyboard/cover, and higher performance could be compelling.
you know the one big advantage directly to apple in making their products thinner every generation is they can ship way more of them for less. Higher margins due to decreased shipping. It also allows them to ship around many more units per delivery.
Uhhhh, they would be able to ship more with reduced packaging than with making the ipad .01 millimeter thinner.
Please tell me you were trolling
Which one would you rather fit in a backpack
In all seriousness though, if you get up to that size, what's the point? I'd rather just carry my MacBook pro. The iPad Air is the perfect size to carry around.
Honestly if they actually announce an iPad that size/proportion...especially if it has a Wacom style level of touch sensitivity I'd finally take the leap. Since the first iPad came out I've been within a hairs breadth of pulling the trigger only to back off in the end because it just didn't seem to offer enough productivity to justify the expense.
But that form factor would be just big enough to allow me to leave my set of drawings (architect) in the office when I head to a jobsite and with better touch would be a perfect sketching platform.
I understand that if you just want to go to meetings and sit around a conference table why not just take a laptop...but the pro pad concept makes a lot of sense for a niche crowd...the question is whether the crowd is big enough to entice Apple to feed it.
So, where has the iPhone innovated but the iPad not?
- Retina, both iPhone and iPad have it
- TouchID, both iPhone and iPad have it or will have it
- Thinner and lighter, both iPhone and iPad have gone there
- 64-bit ARM, both iPhone and iPad have it
- Multiple sizes, the iPad actually got there before the iPhone
- Yearly updates, both iPhone and iPad get those
I am not saying that all the arguments against the iPad are not valid, I just really don't see why one would call the iPad development stagnant but not the iPhone development when they generally get the same features and improvements (with the iPad just being a year later on some like the TouchID).
And $350 cheaper than the iPhone 6+ (with mainly just the phone missing, though the camera is also of lower quality and at the moment no TouchID yet).
i wasn't. was the packaged box for the iphone6 thinner then the previous model by only .01mm, I don't know that, do you? sounds like an exaggeration to me. not even sure where they put them in their final packaging to be honest.
People still think they can confirm Apple's future plans. I still don't understand why people are incorrectly thinking this. Only Apple can conform Apple's plans.
But others keep doing this year in year out. I don't know if it's ignorance, pure stupidity or just egotism.
But others keep doing this year in year out. I don't know if it's ignorance, pure stupidity or just egotism.
All of Apple is stagnant; the main difference, actually, is that carriers help people update their iPhones but not their iPads. If the carriers' subsidies didn't help, we would have seen drops in iPhone sales (before the iPhone 6) just as we have seen drops in iPad sales.
Apple has said repeatedly this isn't going to happen. What do you think the Mac Pro is going to run a touch based OS?
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MBP or MBA are much better browsing machines, you can have as many tabs as you want without reloading. I too don't really see the point in iPads.
Also, if I pay for a phone contract no way in hell am I not going to use it while at home.
You will never get desktop quality apps until the hardware is capable of supporting them.
Widescreen
Front facing stereo speakers
LARGER
better rear camera with flash
None of which will happen
Fundamentally it's not changed from the day the 1st iPad was launched.
They had an idea, and they've not had any more since.
Guess Apple just sit there all smug thinking they got it perfect on day one, so no need to change it ever
And that's without mentioning again they just took the iPhone user interface and made it BIGGER, and did almost nothing else. 3.5" screen to 10" screen with almost no change, and STILL to this day it's no better.
Basically a 10" mobile phone.
Apple are you listening. It's could be so much more if only you gave a crap about it!
I hear you, dude.
Larger isn't really innovating - hell, underwear comes in different sizes.
I don't care about the camera at all as I don't ever take pics with my ipad, but I'm sure a lot of people do. Although I find it strange as a commercial photographer.
I agree about the speakers, I bet they'll do something like that down the line as they can't just sell spec bumps forever. I don't think they believe they got it right day one, it's probably more along the lines of planning the roadmap. Think about cars - every 4-5 years they have a pretty noticeable body change, and years in between are often slight tweaks of interiors and headlights etc. Seems like the same situation. I hope they make a giant iPad with all the bells and whistles you want, homie.
Uhhhhh, they do that already...
Unless you haven't bought any or seen any retail packaging of Apple products in the last ten years, I'm sure you've noticed that they've been shooting for more and more minimal packaging for YEARS. I'm pretty sure it was even MR a few years back that ran an article quantifying EXACTLY what the op was saying; that in a nutshell, even a 3% decrease in volume, when shipping tens of millions of units, makes a significant difference in deployment speed & cost.
So....
Please tell me that upon further reflection you feel foolish for accusing someone for trolling when they came up with an insightful and accurate post.
i know they have decreased packaging. That was my whole point. That packaging has 10000 times more to do with volume shipping efficiency, than a .01MM slimmer product does.
Again, I am questioning the notion that a .01MM thinner product is a big shipping savings, compared to reducing the gaudy packaging.
It would be a terrible cost-cutting measure if they left it out of the rMini.
And it won't save them that much