My guess is that the mini 4 will get the A8 (not the A8X), and that they'll drop the mini 3 to $299 and the mini 2 to $249 in October.
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Apple Removes Original iPad Mini From Apple Online Store
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My guess is that the mini 4 will get the A8 (not the A8X), and that they'll drop the mini 3 to $299 and the mini 2 to $249 in October.
Nope. Apple is still selling the Apple TV and iPod Touch 5. The A5 chip will forever be known as "The chip that won't die"
Apple TV and the iPod Touch still have the A5. This chip simply won't die. Apple used this chip in literally everything but Macs.
That's what I think as well. They know those devices will be dropped next year (even Craig Federighi said they won't drop any devices "this" year), so they want for them to at least have a stable release.
Yay! Soon my iPad Mini will become a collector's item and will be worth millions.
I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to make a Mac run off that chip.
Hopefully it dies completely this year. It's 4 years old now. It's time to put it to sleep.
They do have a huge marketshare, but it will start to get smaller once they start selling newer devices. Plus, I don't think they can complain too much about iOS support, especially iPad 2 users who essentially got 5.5 years worth!
I wish; the current iPod touch sold by Apple is A5 based. Without an update, things are not looking too good for fellow iPod touch users.
Poppycock.
They should remove the iPad mini 3, as it is basically the same thing as the iPad mini 2, but costs £100 more. They should never have brought out the iPad mini 3; it embarrasses Apple.
I believe that Steve Jobs would not have released it.
Yep, support from early 2011 to late 2016, or 5.5 years. The next chip that probably "won't die" is the A7, even more so because the A8 isn't a big improvement. Probably every odd-numbered A-chip will have similar fates.
Hmmm…getting rid of a primary A5 device makes me think that we might finally see EOL on the Apple TV gen 3 which also uses an A5. Apple tends to keep these older devices around because they keep making the chips in them for years which makes the price on lower-margin products even cheaper. If they stop producing them at such scale then other devices will probably also EOL.
Apple really needs to simplify their entire device lineup. One new version and one previous-gen version. This multiple generations for sale crap is confusing for the customer and trying to maintain a more complex product pipeline probably isn't worth it. Especially considering all the work they have to do to maintain older devices in software updates.
It's about time SOMETHING is done with the iPod Touch. They should probably just get rid of it and only sell an iPod Nano.
Well not completely with the iPod Touch and Apple TV, but it's pretty crazy that it's 2015 and we're just now starting to see the second generation iPad chip go away.
Apple really needs to simplify their entire device lineup. One new version and one previous-gen version. This multiple generations for sale crap is confusing for the customer and trying to maintain a more complex product pipeline probably isn't worth it. Especially considering all the work they have to do to maintain older devices in software updates.
It's about time SOMETHING is done with the iPod Touch. They should probably just get rid of it and only sell an iPod Nano.
Well not completely with the iPod Touch and Apple TV, but it's pretty crazy that it's 2015 and we're just now starting to see the second generation iPad chip go away.
