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Apple Rumored to Unveil 10.5-Inch iPad Pro at Early April Event

Relentless Power said:
I don't necessarily think that iPhone takes presidence over the iPad in terms of OLED. But if they do release an iPad with OLED in terms of hardware, as it's been rumored, it would make sense why the OLED iPad would release a little later due to parts supplier constraints. Either way, it doesn't make a difference to me as long as we can see something separating itself from the other iPads with this new 10.5 inch form factor.
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The iPhone is Apple's biggest selling product and produces much more revenue for them, new technology is often put into the iPhone before it is later brought over to the iPad (Touch ID for example). I'm interested in the 10.5" iPad Pro but being a 12.9" iPad Pro user I'm not sure if the amount of screen real estate that i will lose would be negligible or not. Guess we wont have long to find out.
 
Dave245 said:
The iPhone is Apple's biggest selling product and produces much more revenue for them, new technology is often put into the iPhone before it is later brought over to the iPad (Touch ID for example). I'm interested in the 10.5" iPad Pro but being a 12.9" iPad Pro user I'm not sure if the amount of screen real estate that i will lose would be negligible or not. Guess we wont have long to find out.
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I fully understand the iPhone is 70% of the revenue for Apple. What I meant was, is that the iPad and the iPhone don't really necessarily any offer any correlation as far what offers what. Because they're two different entities. It's not entirely impossible for the iPad to offer OLED over iPhone first.

And if you recall, the Apple Watch actually offers an all OLED display before the iPhone and iPad, so the iPhone didn't take precedence over the Apple Watch. So in theory, The iPhone isn't the first Apple product that will see 0LED.
 
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Relentless Power said:
I fully understand the iPhone is 70% of the revenue for Apple. What I meant was, is that the iPad and the iPhone don't really necessarily any offer any correlation as far what offers what. Because they're two different entities. It's not entirely impossible for the iPad to offer OLED over iPhone first.

And if you recall, the Apple Watch actually offers an all OLED display before the iPhone and iPad, so the iPhone didn't take precedence over the Apple Watch. So in theory, The iPhone isn't the first Apple product that will see 0LED.
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They have been playing around with OLED for a while, as you say the Apple Watch has OLED (and it looks great i love it on mine) and the OLED Touch Bar on the new MacBook Pro's have it (i cant comment on how good it is i haven't used one yet). It's possible that they could add it to the iPad first i just don't think they will especially with it being this years iPhone but of course i could be wrong and they could surprise us with OLED iPad's :)
 
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I am supposing no new Macs of any sort have surfaced in all the logs that have iPad 7,* in them? I don't recall reading any such rumours...

I am kind of curious of the bezel-less iPad, but what REALLY needs to be announced is iOS 11 – or iPadOS, or whatever they call it.
 
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I hope for a one and a half-two hours for event and present the 10.5" ipad BUT also new mac mini and imac and internal upgrades for mac pro
 
ndolebay said:
iPad is an entertainment machine, I never saw a person use it for work in my circle.
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In your circle that may be true but there are people who use the iPad for more than just entertainment, since owning the iPad Pro 12.9" i have used it more and more for working in fact i tend to do some of the same tasks on my iPad Pro that i user to only do on my Mac, word-processing for example. The iPad Pro is also used by a lot of people for drawing and annotating using the Apple Pencil, so it has grown from "just being an entertainment device" but there is still room for improvement which i think Apple will do in terms of the software.
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fokmik said:
I hope for a one and a half-two hours for event and present the 10.5" ipad BUT also new mac mini and imac and internal upgrades for mac pro
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If the iMac is only getting spec bumps then they could be announced with a press release along with the 12" MacBook's.
 
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dumastudetto said:
These new iPads are going to hasten the demise of "real computers". I'm expecting some incredible announcements from Apple in the next few weeks.
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Properly not.

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Unless it gets OLED/mLED I don't see what should drive any sales up (other than a very lower price).
 
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timilner said:
I agree that a 10.5 iPad is on its way but why make this their 'bezel-less flagship' iPad rather than the 12.9? Apple has historically placed a flagship status on its largest screened devices. Certainly as far as iOS devices go. With this being the case, wouldn't it make more sense to release bezel-less 10.5 and 12.9? Which pro user would sacrifice screen real estate for thin bezels? Style over substance. Thoughts?
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I agree.

It's going to be ridiculous decission releasing a bezel free 10.5 inch and then the usual bezel 12.9 inch iPad's. I could have understood (but not agreed) if the 12.9 inch version was going to be bezel free (as that's what the largest screen next generation iPhone is increasingly looking like it's going to be)

If the iPad's are getting refreshed, why not give all the new iPad's a new bezel free design. The iPad's haven't seen a redesign in a long while, so they are all due a redesign.
 
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I am still using a gen 4 ipad for most of my regular day-to-day needs. However; it's revealing it's age more and more daily. I could probably get another year out of it, but I'd rather see a new release now that screams upgrade to push me to a new one.

I imagine there are plenty of people out there like me who have been very happy with their devices and avoided upgrades. If a good announcement came, perhaps we could see a small sales spike? Then again, if it's a simple incremental update (or none at all), what's another year?
 
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Bezel or not, I'm going to need 3D Touch, pen and true tone display to be interested in upgrading. No bezel will be great with my thumbs in the way of the display. /s
 
it seems clear to me that the Mac days are numbered... I see that the iOS platform will one day eventually be the only option from Apple, watch, phones, iPads.
I think the day may come when there will be an iPad with dual processors (Intel and Apple A series) OR just purely Intel. When that day comes, all "Mac" products will be history.
 
Eliminating home buttons doesn't really help with the core OS functionality that is missing or encourage developers to release feature rich apps with new touch interfaces (compared to their existing Windows and Mac OS versions). The iPad line currently does not need more power or removal of buttons, it could do with a more feature rich OS. Funnily enough I think the general low power nature of the Mac OS Device Ecosystem is now hurting Pro app development on iOS.
 
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dumastudetto said:
These new iPads are going to hasten the demise of "real computers". I'm expecting some incredible announcements from Apple in the next few weeks.
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I don't agree. Most computers that are in use in offices are not going anywhere any time soon. When those PC's are end of life, they will be replaced with newer PC's.

For most cases, a tablet supplements a 'real computer' and doesn't replace.
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ndolebay said:
iPad is an entertainment machine, I never saw a person use it for work in my circle.
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iPad can be anything a person wants it to be. If the apps exist to allow people to do their job, then it's clearly a professional device. Whether it does a better job that a traditional computer, that's really up to them to decide.
 
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CmdrLaForge said:
I use it to read this forum. Ain't that work?
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Actually they sell 3x as many iPads. Revenue is the same.
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My mistake! I had their earnings report in mind, which was why I made the mistake. Thanks for the correction.

It disproves the OP even more with his 'iPad is dead' line.
 
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btrach144 said:
What about the iMac and Mac Mini? iPad is dead.
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I agree, what the crap is going on with iMac's? my late 2013 has given me more "PC" type problems than any other apple machine I have ever owned (still a great computer but random frustrating problems). That said, I don't agree the iPad is dead. I think they are starting to notice they can make it the MacBook air but they are moving so slow so that it doesn't look like they just changed iPad to match the few things the surface seems to have done right (never used one other than in best buy but seems like a laptop in tablet form to me and that is what I want out of an iPad). I got the first iPad mini and not only stopped using it almost completely after about a year or two, I gave it to my 6 year old when he outgrew his leapfrog or whatever. Although, when they released the 9.7 inch pro I traded in my MacBook air for it and the smart keyboard and truthfully haven't looked back even once. I use the iPad more than I ever did my laptop even with school and I am a grad student. Obviously I am not a math major or something that would be inconvenient to work on an iPad, but it has done 95% of everything I needed through my senior year during my BS and so far during it has done everything needed for my MBA since there has been some updates and new apps.

So to summarize, the iPad isn't "dead" but it is becoming more like a personal computer and most people don't upgrade those but about every 5 years or so. I think that Apple just needs to stop playing around with them and turn them into serious machines alongside some new desktop class products. I don't need a thinner iMac or a better camera, but you give me a serious GPU and other upgradeable options without overcharging like the MacBook pro and I will seriously consider getting a new iMac even though mine is doing what I need for the time being.

sorry for the long post, was drinking my morning coffee and just started flowin lol
 
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timilner said:
I agree that a 10.5 iPad is on its way but why make this their 'bezel-less flagship' iPad rather than the 12.9? Apple has historically placed a flagship status on its largest screened devices. Certainly as far as iOS devices go. With this being the case, wouldn't it make more sense to release bezel-less 10.5 and 12.9? Which pro user would sacrifice screen real estate for thin bezels? Style over substance. Thoughts?
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I was thinking the same thing when I read this. I want a 12.9" iPad and i want it to be the best one they offer, or at least equal to another size (ie bezel-less). Who knows though, 10.5" may be a nice size for my use too.
 
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I think we are way past the time when bigger screen iPads is enough to warrant headlines news or breaking technology. There has to be something more to grab the publics attention than "now it's 10.5 instead of 9.7" big whoop.
 
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