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The real issue back then was thin tablets didn't have very high resolution or fast scanning and detection.
Well they stuffed up on the Apple Pencil name as a company already owns it an sells a stylus that looks like a pencil for iPad - 
lol - http://www.fiftythree.com/pencil
lol - http://www.fiftythree.com/pencil
And good specs. Don't forget about specs. It has an i7, 8GB RAM and 512GB SSD.
I don't see it as a tablet, for me it's a proper laptop replacement. Light and portable for browsing, reading, watching movies in a plane, and powerful enough for coding and photo editing at home where i attached a 27 inch monitor, keyboard and mouse to it.
The ability to run desktop class apps is the selling point for me.
I fear a teardown will reveal what happened to all those unsold surface RTs and felt keyboards. lol
That or Jony Ive just hired Balmer to the Apple design team....
Yes things are that bad.
That or Jony Ive just hired Balmer to the Apple design team....
Yes things are that bad.
Ugh, please, it's not the same if your neighbors are not complaining about the noise levels. Those were real keyboards.
Except it can only run iPad apps so all that power for nada. Also, you're guessing at the Geekbench results. Let's wait for some facts aka you'll have to wait till November.
Hypocritical is bashing MS and android products for thier features, until those features are introduced into apple products and then defending them. A trait mainly executed by Apple fanbois.
I've seen the surface pro (KB and stylus) take a hammering on MR, those same individuals are praising the iPad pro. Hypocrites.
first iPad KB was a dock. The iPad was never positioned to require a KB. The iPad pro is being positioned to need the new KB. See the difference........ Aka the iPad Air is not getting one
Yes, and is there some reason you don't think anyone's developing new or updated iPad apps that take advantage of that power? Is there some inherent limitation of iPad apps I'm unaware of that prevents them from being as good if not better than desktop applications?
I'm not taking a blind guess. I'm going off of already established Geekbench results and Phil's claim that the A9X chip is 1.8x faster. The Geekbench scores scale directly. That suggests a score of over 8100. If it's anywhere close, are you really going to say with a straight face that's not impressive?
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It's a tablet that runs a full OS, and with the KB it becomes a laptop replacement? It's quite obvious, hence it competing vrs an Mb air.
How is a 12" IPad Air with a stylus and KB more innovative ?
Apple inflates their numbers. Lets meetup again in November and talk when we have facts. I'll be blown away if it reaches those numbers but I highly doubt it will.
Where there keyboards that connected via a magnetic port to transfer power and data? And ive had the nerve to call it new technology LMAO
I'll be the first to admit I bought my Surface Pro 3 just for the experience. What I didn't expect was to find it incredibly useful. Oh sure I knew it would be far superior to the iPad, but until it was in my laptop bag along with my iPad Air and MBP, little did I realize just how handy it would be.
Just one more reminder that iPads do what iPads to best. Surf the web and play movies.
Just one more reminder that iPads do what iPads to best. Surf the web and play movies.
You really should analyse wider than verbatim.
That was the view of the then CEO (who is now dead) when talking about a 3.5" phone, which had no 3rd party apps, and he was talking about navigation (which is still easy with a finger). We're now 8 years later, referring to a 12.9" device, with complex 3rd party apps and talking about content creation (which mostly sucks without a stylus). That doesn't take a genius to figure out.
Similarly built in hardware keyboards were in regards to a phone. Go to your local phone shop - you'll see they were right.
Also Apple have allowed you to pair keyboards with both their phones and tablets way before the Surface was even a product. Hell they even had keyboard docks years before Surface. http://www.cnet.com/uk/products/apple-ipad-keyboard-dock-series/
I'll leave this here too, as it's really important for successful businesses...
“He would flip on something so fast that you would forget that he was the one taking the 180 degree polar [opposite] position the day before,” - http://allthingsd.com/20120529/steve-jobs-was-an-awesome-flip-flopper-says-tim-cook/
That fact you are stuck with a dead man's words from 8 years ago is telling. Don't get stuck in past ideas. Change if you figure out how to do something better.
Wow, that's a throwback!!
I didn't say that the iPad Air with KB was more innovative. Where are you getting that?
I just said that the Microsoft Surface with KB was NOT innovative.
No, the magnetic contacts mean the keyboard will only work in landscape mode. If you want that you should get a separate case/stand and BT keyboard.
I hate Apple now. They are running off into tangental markets for short money and this will eventually trap them in a corner. I've spent thirty years in and out of the IT business, mostly using Microsoft, before that CPM, before that Fortran & COBOL.. Twelve years ago I personally switched to OS X because it was a stable Unix based OS unlike Microsoft's wobbly products at the time. I still play with Microsoft and Android stuff and I can say conclusively that Apple's obsession with fashion, watch bands, music thugs, and color coordinated products will put the company in third place.
I still hate that tri-pod/triangle thing that supports the iPad in cases like this. I still prefer the Surface Pro type kickstand. I know that Apple considers that "ugly", hanging on the back of the Surface, but it allows simple attachment of the keyboard and the kickstand is convenient even when you don't have/use the keyboard.
It's totally cool to change your mind, change direction with an idea or a product when you don't publicly MOCK the very thing you are now doing. I remember when the new macpro was shown off, Phil Schiller said, "can't innovate my ass". I didn't get that attitude from him over the pencil or the keyboard, in fact he looked like he was mortified that he had to announce those things. I like what Apple used to stand for - they went about their business trying to make the best of the best. Now it seems they are so caught up in fashion and ancillary crap that they have lost sight of the big picture.
I still want apple to win, to innovate and to make awesome products. You know what would have wow'd me? To me the ipad pro is stupid in it's current incarnation. Now if the ipad pro's OS morphed into OS X light when the keyboard was attached, that would have blown me away. A true game changer that is truly a bridge between tablet and laptop. No one has successfully done that yet IMO, not even the surface. I know I need to contain some of my cynicism when it comes to the new apple but sometimes I fail