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Apple Reportedly Planning to Release Most Affordable 9.7-inch iPad Ever in Late 2018
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He’s referring to the fact that you can’t leave an SSH session open while the SSH app is backgrounded for more than 3 minutes.
There are workarounds for that, though - modern SSH apps on iOS have extended this limit (Termius, Prompt, Blink) and they all support another shell called mosh that has provisions to fix that specific problem. If there was an SSH connection open in the background forever it would wreck the battery, but I guess Android does give you the option to obliterate your own battery if you so choose.
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Huh. Honestly, it sounds to me like they're trying to compete with their own past engineering successes; I have four iPad Air 2s at home for my family, three of which I purchased used on eBay for between US $220 and $270, and I'm pretty happy with them. However, if I could have gotten a "new" iPad for a comparable price and with comparable performance, I probably would have gone that route, instead -- especially after the last of the iPads I'd purchased actually arrived locked to an iTunes account.
(I eventually worked it out with the original owner... but that's another story.)And this sounds to me like something which might potentially appeal to Apple: eroding values within these inherently less reliable secondary markets, in favor of moving more new units through their own stores... but it all depends upon the margins. If Apple can find a way to move new units at those prices and still bring in their usual profit margins, than it'll happen. If they can't... than the used market will continue to reap the rewards.
Not really sure which way to root, here, actually.
It really hasn't changed much on tablet in a long time then! I purchased a Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 brand new which was released in 2012. It had large bezels, a Super AMOLED display, an iPad Mini form factor before the iPad Mini existed with Samsung copying even the Apple 30 pin plug but reversed the orientation of the plug. The screen was great, the tablet was somewhat usable but there were so few apps optimised for a tablet that it really wasn't worth using. Samsung also dragged their heels releasing updates for the device and i had to go to firmware download sites to get an OS update simply because the carrier that I was with took even longer. There were 2 OS updates before Samsung abandoned that device. I swore I would never get another Samsung tablet ...
However, I had a Samsung Galaxy Tab S (released in 2014) given to me - an 8 inch model with another superb screen. This time much higher resolution than iPad Mini, much smaller bezels. It was a beautiful device, retina burning over saturated screen but I fiddled with the settings and got it to look amazing. However, Samsung was lazy they didn't bother to implement palm rejection when they shrunk the bezels. I felt like throwing the device against a wall after about 1 minute of using it as my palms always registered false touches across the screen. Combined with the dedicated capacitive button placement which also registered false touches for the back button and multi-tasking, it was impossible to actually use for any period of time.
The Android tablet app situation got much better with this tablet but tablet apps were not a priority for many developers compared to iPad. Samsung offered fairly lacklustre OS support for the Galaxy Tab S 8.4 inch again. In one of those OS updates, Google implemented palm rejection as a core feature of Android which made it much more usable. The lack of quality apps and few prospects of it seeing further OS updates led me to sell the tablet.
In the meantime, we had an iPad 2 released in 2011 that had a regular OS update every year until iOS 10 arrived in 2016. The older iPad stuttered a bit on iOS 9 but was still much more usable than my newer Samsung tablet and the quality and breadth of apps available was vastly superior. After selling the Galaxy Tab S, I bought an iPad Air 2 which my wife is still using today.
I want a high end iPad Mini, not a new Mini with two or three year technology inside and limited RAM.
Fitbit as a company is imploding. There’s nothing to compete with here. Plus, I don’t think it’s feasible to expect an Apple Watch that cheap - it will cannibalise the more expensive models, and that’s probably how much it costs to manufacture alone.
Apple doesn’t need to engage in a race to the bottom to compete. Why destroy your own profits here?
I think Apple has been realizing of late that in order to get people hooked into their ecosystem they need some entry level gateway products. For example, the iPhone SE and the 2017 iPad.
When my daughter was in college, she absolutely did not want an Apple Watch. I got one for her for Christmas, and she asked me to return it. She wanted a simple Fitbit tracker instead. This device was popular with her friends. A $300+ Watch was just too much.
She graduated this year and has a good professional job but still prefers the Fitbit. I don't see it as a race to the bottom. There are people who just prefer a more minimalist approach.
No. You need a Mac regardless, but you don’t really need an iPad. That’s why they give you a discount. Promotion is an attempt to have people spend money on things they otherwise wouldn’t.
For example, you will never see homo milk or eggs go on sale.