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Apple Rumored to Announce New iPads This Week, But Gurman Says Release 'Won't Happen This Month'
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https://superchargednews.com/2023/10/14/apple-launching-new-ipads-this-week/ is this what the sire read?
Fundamental rule of business: don't leave money on the table.
I suspect any successful business that is long sustaining is built on that principle.
Absolutely agree, that's why I smile when I see people assuming Apple is always doing things in the best interest of their clients
The standard Magic Keyboards work with the iPad mini: https://www.apple.com/shop/accessories/all/mice-keyboards?fh=40a2+90d6ca+4603&f=ipadmini6gen2021-keyboard&page=1
that's a bluetooth keyboard, it works with any device that has bluetooth, that's not a keyboard made and sold for the iPad mini. Apple will not make one as they think it's too small. Similarly I don't see them giving the mini stage manager for the same reason (screen is too small). And these are 2 reasons why they won't give the mini external display support.
I don’t think people want to use the iPad mini as a dual screen. They primarily want to use the full area of an external display, a feature which for whatever reason is currently limited to the M1. That’s a use case that would make perfect sense, and is unrelated to the screen size. Quite on the contrary, people want this because the iPad mini is so small, making it take up less space on a desk, be more portable, and more convenient to plug it on and off.
Reads definitive, but they could just as easily be speculating with some wishful thinking.
1st is a good point but Apple, is prioritizing their Macbooks and standalones (Apple Studio and mini) over this all-in-one design, while leaving iMac as just an afterthought (we still haven't 27" iMac). If that's going on it isn't because Apple doesn't wanna profit from iMac sales but because it has a low demand? Or maybe because they realised standalones give more margin and wanna promote that way. Mac Mini and Studio provide indirect sales as a form of keyboards, mouses, trackpads and displays (Studio Display or a Pro Display), specially for Apple Studio. The moment you release a 27" iMac with a good screen and powerful enough you are cannibalizing Apple Studio and the displays sales.
2nd point is cherrypicking as that barely happened once with the 15" in 2013 not being updated for 2 years, the rest usually had an anual update maybe except for Mac Pro.
3rd point: TSMC not releasing anual new nodes isn't economics or marketing, it's logistics.
4t point abot the OS: being free doesn't invalidate my reasoning? What's the point of releasing an anual OS when you don't have anual new Macs anyway? All the stuff included in Monterrey, Ventura and Sonoma isn't worth even a 1 big OS upgrade, it could be perfectly added in Big Sur as new features. A yearly anual OS is a pain in the ass for app devs, Apple devs, and us customers with app compatibilities and so, and the sole reason to do so is that every year you can ditch more old Macs support so users feel their computer is obsolete thus forcing new sales. As I said, Apple is about money and numbers, but at least they should be less blatant and go for a 2 year anual release like they do now with Macs.
The Mac mini had updates in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2020.
The MacBook Air had updates in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020… and the 2017 MacBook Air had a 2015 CPU.
The 27-inch iMac had updates in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019.
That's not even getting into the Mac Pro.
You're way off with your assertion that "they literally released a new Mac every time Intel had a new CPU". They sometimes took years to upgrade to an Intel CPU, and sometimes skipped multiple generations.
I hope you’re right.
And it would great if we had new devices to talk about this week.
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I was OK with M2/M2 Pro iMac rumors until A17 Pro in the iPhone 15 Pro showed hardware enabled ray tracing. Now its seems better to wait for January or March introductions of first M3 SoC's or possibly when the M3 Pro shows up IMHO.
One could apply that same thought to IPadOS based game playing on the upcoming iPads, or other graphic content applications that make use of that.
I enjoy a good press release announcement. Looking forward to something being announced by Apple this week. We shall see.
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The 13” M2 Air came out last summer...so over 1.5 years ago.
M2 was released 1.5 years after M1. It seems reasonable to expect M3 to come out 1.5 years after M2, which would be this fall.
I guess I am thinking in terms of the processor roadmap rather than in terms of products released.
M2 was released in 2022, 1.5 years after M1. The M2 Pro/Max/Ultra came out in 2023. The M2 Mini got held back because the Mini was also getting the M2 Pro, so it makes sense to release the Mini with the Pro/Max chips.
I would expect M3 to come out this fall (1.5 years after M2) and then all the M3 Pro/Max/Ultras in the first half of 2024.
Extra RAM (from the current 4GB to 6GB) would seal the deal.
You probably got a good deal on it which is something that iPad mini 7 buyers won’t get until next year if the mini 7 drops soon.
I removed always because no entity is perfect. But the point stands that serving customers well is the long term mandatory goal for any really competent firm.
Sorry but I do not consider high prices alone to make Apple into the king of milking their customers as much as they legally can. Buyers still have plenty of cheaper options that they can choose among.
You seem to fail to grasp the critical difference between making products available that best suit customers' needs and doing things in the best interest of their clients. We all are Apple's customers, not Apple's clients.
But that would lead to one of two unlikely situations: either the 13" Air is updated to M3 while the 15" is stuck on M2 until...when? Or both are updated and the 15" Air with M2 has one of the shortest lifespans of any Mac in history.
I remember when the iPad 3 came out in the Spring, it was replaced 6 months later by the iPad 4 in the Fall so it is possible. Rare but possible.
Well I remember when Apple’s PowerBook line was getting updated every 6 months…..so a first generation 15” MacBook Air, getting a processor bump (with no other design changes) in the same year, doesn’t seem that wild to me.