The SE won't see a refresh until at least 2018. The SE has plenty of power and some of the latest specifications. It's likely only an expanded memory option.
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Apple Said to Debut New iPad Pro Lineup, 128GB iPhone SE, and Red iPhone 7 and 7 Plus at March Event
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The SE won't see a refresh until at least 2018. The SE has plenty of power and some of the latest specifications. It's likely only an expanded memory option.
my hope is Apple knows that what is holding back the iPad is software, not hardware. Yes, these hardware improvements are welcome, but it's software where Apple needs to innovate to move the dial.
I use the iPad 60% of the time and would love to make that 90%. For hardware, my dream is the 12.9 screen with no bezel and drop half the weight. Probably not possible, but it's my dream.
In lieu of that, the 10.5 seems like a great solution. Hoping there is an improved keyboard and pencil too with slot to cary and charge pencil in keyboard case. A very Apple solution I believe would make Steve proud.
I use the iPad 60% of the time and would love to make that 90%. For hardware, my dream is the 12.9 screen with no bezel and drop half the weight. Probably not possible, but it's my dream.
In lieu of that, the 10.5 seems like a great solution. Hoping there is an improved keyboard and pencil too with slot to cary and charge pencil in keyboard case. A very Apple solution I believe would make Steve proud.
The way I see it, a new beautiful bezel-less iPad is just a warning shot for the iPhone that's on the way. They're not overlapping markets, so an iPad sale now isn't going to take away from iPhone sales in September, but it's going to show everyone a taste of what they have in store for their phones.
You didn't get the memo that the 10.5" iPad replaces the 9.7" iPad, with an older, not updated version of the 9.7" iPad remaining as the entry-level product in the product line-up?
If the iPhone SE isn't getting a processor bump, then I really hope Apple drops the price to make it more competitive in China and India.
Hopefully, a limited edition Red iPhone 7 will spark sales.
I'll wait and see on the iPad, Apple has severely neglected the product.
This time I don't mind new bands for the Apple Watch 2, but hopefully they're not ******.
Hopefully, a limited edition Red iPhone 7 will spark sales.
I'll wait and see on the iPad, Apple has severely neglected the product.
This time I don't mind new bands for the Apple Watch 2, but hopefully they're not ******.
If there's USB-C (longshot, I know), I buy an iPad Pro.
If not, I stick with my iPad Air 1 until it dies, and see if I can transition to making my Asus my only tablet. Really love the micro-SD and USB-C, but still love iOS so much more than Android.
If not, I stick with my iPad Air 1 until it dies, and see if I can transition to making my Asus my only tablet. Really love the micro-SD and USB-C, but still love iOS so much more than Android.
I disagree. I can't wait.
I understand that because of the middling iPad software and weak developer ecosystem, iPads have been reduced to mostly consumption devices requiring infrequent upgrades. But there are still many of us who use the iPad for more and welcome annual upgrades.
WE?.......considering Macs are only a small chunk of business you couldn't be more wrong. What people want are iPhones and iPads (mostly iPhones), not Macs.
Tim Cook has extremely extremely super cool things planned for the future. Axing iMac lineup is one of them.
If they are re-hashing the entire iPad line-up can Apple at least drop the "Pro" and just stick with iPad.
Unless they're being serious about "Pro" this time.
Apart from that, meh.. Bigger, smaller, thinner and a Red option. That's Apple's DNA.
Unless they're being serious about "Pro" this time.
Apart from that, meh.. Bigger, smaller, thinner and a Red option. That's Apple's DNA.
It'll be at best something like the iPad 4 update (or even not that, there won't be a change in main connector as it happened with the iPad 4). They could update the CPU+GPU on the iPad Air 2 or they could simply keep reselling the 9.7" iPad Pro at a lower price. If they updated the 9.7" iPad Pro that would mean selling two current 'mid-size' iPad Pro models at different prices.
It's not the availability of technology. Apple chose not to update the iPad mini 4 or 12.9 last year and the iPad Pro 9.7 didn't have all the non-calling features or tech of the iPhone 6s, which was the current phone when that model was announced -- most notably 3D Touch and Raise To Wake functionality. The iPad mini 4 doesn't have a Touch ID sensor even though that technology existed when it was announced. Those are all management decisions.
I own the 64MB SE, and like it (Nothing to do with being "cheap", just a correct size for my use case.)
As today, it has used only 50% of its memory. I see no need for a 128GB SE at all, like you found out.
So, the good news to me is that the SE (ie. 4-in form-factor, regardless of name) is not one-and-done.
Like you, my dream is for a SE OLED display without chins. I called it earlier my wet dream.
But the good news, apparently, is that the SE form-factor remains anchored in Apple's lineup, and this dream may come to fruition -- just maybe two or three generations from now, when the shine of OLED is no more.
So, I will await patiently until this happens.
If people start believing it, satire stops being funny. And I could get really rich if people like you put their money where their mouth is and would accept bets on their nihilistic predictions.
Have you ever considered that maybe you're in the minority for not wanting Apple to make Macs? It's pretty insane to want Apple to update their iPhones and iPads every year (and sometimes twice a year!) yet be ok with them for neglecting the Mac for 4 years. (That's not a joke. Mac Pro hasn't been updated in 4 years).
So maybe instead of being an ****** and assuming I'm talking about you when I say "we," you should just acknowledge that TONS of people feel abandoned when Apple neglects a product line. That's not a behavior you should permit from Apple, even if these aren't the products you mostly care about. Because before you know it, Apple will start neglecting the products that you love as well.
You call it 'not updating'. I call it, 'lengthening of the product cycle to something around 18 months for the iPad'.
Editors prefer Final Cut X which is a Mac app also a lot of them prefer Mac's in general. It is down to personal preference as I've said. iMacs are overdue a spec update I agree, but what do you expect Apple to do? Redesign? Touchscreen and copy the Surface? Which personally I hope they never do, I don't think they will (especially after watching the interview with Craig Federighi in which he explained they had working models of a Touchscreen Mac but it was a bad experience and a compromise).
Or is it just that tablets have a useful, but limited, niche being squeezed by small, light but full-featured laptops at one end and increasingly powerful, large-screen phones at the other?
Many people I know have a tablet and/or a phone - usually both. Often on their second or third. Know what they all also have? A full-blown computer of some description for doing serious work. All of them. They might give a Powerpoint/Keynote from their iPad but they sure as heck don't write it on one...
When the iPad and iPhone came out, everybody + dog was predicting the post-PC (where PC includes Mac) world. Newsflash: the iPhone has been around for 10 years, the iPad nearly 7 and people are still using PCs and Macs. Getting stuff done is still easier with a decent-sized screen, proper keyboard and an input device that can tell the difference between pointing and clicking. Who'd have thought?
The inconvenient truth is that all computing hardware - PC, tablet, phone - has matured (phones and tablets had a very short adolescence) and isn't packing in the new features fast enough to maintain the 18-month upgrade cycle the industry enjoyed in the past. There's been a bit of life in making things thinner and lighter, but we're now reaching the stage where things are as thin and light as they need to be/can be without a new, drastic change in technology (picked up a 9.5" iPad lately?) Seriously - wake me up when the new iPad is a solid rectangle of toughened glass 3mm thick powered by ambient energy...
I'm very happy to hear these rumors. My older iPad is really starting to show its age. The price drop last year wasn't enough to get me to buy - I wanted at least iPhone 7 level tech.
I'm particularly interested in the 10.5" model - I like large screens but don't like large form factors, so the fact that it's physically the same size as the 9.7" is awesome.
Hopefully the processor will be an A10X, faster Han iPhone 7, with appropriate amounts of memory and storage.
I'm particularly interested in the 10.5" model - I like large screens but don't like large form factors, so the fact that it's physically the same size as the 9.7" is awesome.
Hopefully the processor will be an A10X, faster Han iPhone 7, with appropriate amounts of memory and storage.
I can nearly guarantee touch will be prevalent on the Macs in the future (or they kill it). In 2017 if you don't have touch , you are simply not offering whats expected. Apl started this with its mass multi-touch adoption in iPhone in 2007. Ipod continued it , then Surface brought it to all other device types. Its everywhere.
Its tough for a consumer to not have touch as its so prevalent.... the emoji bar is simply a kludge. An attempt to see "if it will fly"
Apl has three choices:
1. Make touch a basic, means re-doing Mac and merging with IOS closer. (Pulling a Surface)
2. Continue with touch strip lesser solution and five OS's ...put it in everything (Being stubborn/kind of crazy )
3. Kill Mac sell IOS only , bring development to IOS ( seriously looking at #'s and focusing)
I believe they will do #1 (or #3)..#2 is suicidal. Its even more important they do someting with their AR aspirations. "Larger targets"
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