Apple Said to Debut New iPad Pro Lineup, 128GB iPhone SE, and Red iPhone 7 and 7 Plus at March Event

[Dave245]

I read at some UK sites about a rumor that Apple is going to release the New iPad Pro 2 in March.
As I bought one a couple of days ago but planning to return it since I have one at home and my wife is using it .
If the new one will come out soon will buy it and sell my Wife 9.7" that is a few months old 128Gb Space gray and buy a couple of them.

It looks that way, although I don't know what features it will have that will make it worth an upgrade from the iPad Pro of last year, the 12.9" I can see getting bigger upgrades because it's older, but it was last March that they announced the 9.7" iPad Pro.

 

[Marx55]

Just bring real computers: Mac Pro, Mac mini and MacBook Pro. No jail, true USB ports, decent fully accesible file system, no need to send you files by eMail to get them on other Mac, no application sandboxing, open and work with any file from any source, full compatibility with the world (Windows, Linux, etc), run also other operating systems via Boot Camp or VMware Fusion, much powerful, and much, much much more...

 

[Wayfarer]

Too many different options these days...

Agreed. This should have been the first post.

 

[DUIduckSAUCE]

I miss Jobs

Why? What do you think he would do differently?
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What is the big deal with colours? A lot pf people use (or should use) cases and covers anyway.

I have never used a case.

 

[Apple.Fanatic]

Would be nice to see the MacBook get an update here. Speed bump with added Thunderbolt 3/USB-C. Maybe add another one to the other side. I know there were rumors about adding another USB-C/Thunderbolt port. Might have to wait until June though.

 

[DUIduckSAUCE]

Yes, jet is black... coal is black, obsidian is black. That's why those words all mean "black".
Certainly "most" people are NOT referring to a possible ceramic white iPhone as "jet white", as that is idiotic.
Further, that is only how one SOLE individual referred to it himself in the original rumor (singular... there have not been multiple leaks of a white iPhone, nor multiple sources using this verbiage).
They didn't even say anything remotely like- "and Apple has decided on the term jet white", or even "they're calling it internally jet white"; the leaker merely said that themselves.
Now there are a few possible explanations- perhaps English was this leaker's second language & he thought that, because the jet black iPhone is shiny, jet means shiny. Or perhaps, caught up over posting his 1st ever tip, he simply misspoke in his excitement. We will likely never know for sure (and honestly.... who cares?).
There is one thing we DO know though: jet white is not a color, and never has been. Indeed, if you Google the term, and go page after page, you will find not one single reference to one single object referred to as "jet white", save the dozens and dozens of references to this leaker's verbal or mental slip up in which they (quite accidentally, I'm sure) tried to use "jet" as a descriptor of a shade of white.
Oops!
Why anybody would repeat that, unless quoting him verbatim, for the purpose of giving him credit for leaking the rumor of a glossy ceramic white iPhone, I'm unclear on.

Hypothetical scenario:
If I found out that Apple figured out a way to miraculously manufacture a clear Apple Pencil, and in my excitement to share that info- accidentally referred to it as "Clear Plaid"; I would NOT expect all of you to act as if you've lost your minds & only refer to it in a nonsensical term such as "Clear Plaid" forever- even if I was the original leaker. You could go ahead and refer to it as "the rumored transparent Apple Pencil", or "the rumored clear Apple Pencil", so you wouldn't sound foolish.

Is any of this tracking??

Yes it is. But for some reason jet white has stuck.

 

[pat500000]

My prediction: Apple concludes the keynote 30 mins earlier.

 

[69650]

Or at least announced or hinted during that time frame. The March Keynote will have nothing to contribute to iMacs or the Mac Pro. It's either September 2017 or 2018 for the Mac Pro/iMac.

The Sept event will focus on the iPhone & Watch. I don't think they will want to distract from that. 2018 is just too long to wait given how old the current models are.

My guess is they will update the MB in March (hopefully adding a 14" model) and update the iMac & Mac Pro at WWDC. If they do update the Mac Mini that will come later in the year without an event.

 

[cardfan]

I have the iPad Pro 9.7 and absolutely love it. That said, not sure what Apple could offer that would make me want to upgrade. No bezels and 3D Touch would be nice, but not essential. A faster processor is useless since there still aren't any Pro apps that really take advantage of the current a9 processor. Hm.

OLED would be it for me. More RAM is always good. Not much else I want. I hardly use 3D touch as it is on the phones. Don't mind the bezels. My biggest peeve though is probably the blurring as you scroll. This is why i don't really read as much on an ipad as I would otherwise and just primarily use it for drawing.

And if you want something special on the display front, it’s possible to specify a QHD (2560 x 1440) OLED screen with a 1ms response time (and it’s touch-enabled). --from an oled alienware laptop review.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/ipad-display-response-time-comparison.1978497/ here's a thread on it. There's another https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/ipad-pro-motion-blur.1938211/

More on why OLED is so important..https://www.fool.com/investing/2016/12/06/3-reasons-apple-incs-oled-iphone-will-be-the-one-t.aspx


Display technology expert Raymond Soneria of Display Mate Technologies says that OLEDs can have much quicker pixel response times than LCDs. A display's pixel response time (measured in milliseconds) per website DisplayLag is "how quickly it can change its pixels from black-to-white or gray-to-gray."

DisplayLag explains the impact that response times can have on user experience:

The response time of a display typically governs how much ghosting a display has. Ghosting is the blur that you see on your display trailing objects when there are fast scenes being displayed, such a car chase, or an action video game like Ninja Gaiden. A display with a slow response time will show blurring behind moving objects as they are moving, and can be very distracting to the human eye.

To get a sense of how much faster mobile OLED displays can be relative to mobile LCDs, it's worth checking out pixel response times that website Notebook Check measured for the LCD-packing iPhone 7 Plus and the OLED-powered Galaxy Note7.

Notebook Check measured the black-to-white response time on the iPhone 7 Plus's display at 24 milliseconds; 50% gray to 80% gray came in at 29 milliseconds.


In contrast, the display on the Note7 delivered a black-to-white response time of 4.4 milliseconds, and a 50% gray to 80% gray response time of just 5.6 milliseconds.

OLED mobile displays can clearly be much faster than even the best mobile LCDs.

 

[zombierunner]

March 10

 

[69650]

I hope they bring back the all-in-one leather case with front cover built in. That's the thing I miss most about upgrading to the iPad Pro. The current separate rubber case and cover are just terrible.

 

[4jasontv]

A faster processor is useless since there still aren't any Pro apps that really take advantage of the current a9 processor. Hm.

Me thinks that's an extention of fragmentation. Why would a developer target the newest chip and risk excluding a user base. When Apple releases a faster chip developers will start to embrace the A9, but only because it will become lower end.

 

[amg2014]

But no iMacs?

What about the Mac Pro and the Mac Mini? These haven't been updated in ages.

 

[niun]

You have a touchscreen, but not an accompanying UI optimised for touch and direct input. You have keyboard and mouse, but not the laptop form factor designed to take advantage of that..

Tablet Mode: All the usual apps I'd use on an iPad are optimised for touch - mail, edge, kindle, Netflix, sketchable, dropbox, Guardian, Bitwig even Photoshop.

Surface Book? Heard of it?

You are stuck with a 3:2 form factor for both your laptop and tablet, regardless of whether you want those aspect ratios or not. It still lacks the LTE option.

Fine, works for me. I also have the ability to hook it up to my 4K screen with Bluetooth mouse and keyboard - hey-presto Desktop PC.
LTE. Yeah, I just hook it up to my phone or use public Wi-Fi. Never been an issue.

For someone like me who uses his iPad way more than his MacBook Air, better for me to just stick with a dedicated tablet form factor.

Why have both then?
I travel all the time for work and I got bored of carrying around two devices + Wacom + midi controller + all the plugs, adapters etc...
Apple never got round to making that perfect device that can do it all so I happily caved in when MS did.

 

[alexgowers]

It's getting to the point where nobody has a bare phone though. I don't see the need for all these colours you might as well just rely on the case.

I also feel like we should be over three tiers of storage. Just give us a dual sim slot or two very large options. To even consider 16gb an viable option is madness and 32gb gets pretty cramped.

 

[thermal]

Too many different options these days...

When Henry Ford introduced the Model T, it was available in one colour - black.
Today, you can buy a Mustang in your choice of colours.

Times change.

 

[MoodySasquatch]

But no iMacs?

Nope you don't need those, just an iPad Pro remember? Cause that's a computer now. Slightly updated iPads that no one is buying anymore and possibly new colors for iPhone, the innovation just never stops in Cupertino.

 

[rGiskard]

If they offer a 7.9" iPad with a photo-aligned high contrast display then I'm in. My Mini 4 is great but the display quality kind of sucks for reading text compared to my Nexus 7 2013, all because of low contrast.

 

[bigjnyc]

Terrific news for the SE.
It's still the best iPhone Apple have ever made, and I remember some on here were hoping for a 128gb model.

Looking forward to seeing what they do with the iPads too.. it's been a while since an iPad event, and a small scattering of rumours on here.. but we know they need to do sonething cool to push sales again..

Not even close

 

[AppleInLVX]

As a owner of a launch day iPad Air I'm so ready for a new iPad.

Same boat, brother.

 

[cardfan]

When Henry Ford introduced the Model T, it was available in one colour - black.
Today, you can buy a Mustang in your choice of colours.

Times change.

Yep, today you get white or black iphone. Color of the back is sort of irrelevant to me.

 

[Naraxus]

New watch bands. Of course. Apple the Fashion Company, not Apple the Computer Company...

 

[redfoxash]

Is it just me, or does it seem a little odd that they just released new iPad commercials. How credible is the March release is they are still advertising the Pros?

 

[darngooddesign]

Is it just me, or does it seem a little odd that they just released new iPad commercials. How credible is the March release is they are still advertising the Pros?

Do you feel those commercials won't apply to the new iPad Pros?

 

[QCassidy352]

I predict: new 12.9", new 10.5", current 9.7" becomes the low end, mini is killed. So three screen sizes, only two new models.

I don't think they could offer anything that would make me upgrade my iPad Air 2. But we shall see.