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Apple Says Future iPads Could Feature Landscape Apple Logo
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Because that is an extra electronic component which can randomly fail or be broken. Not only increases manufacturing cost but also extra support/repair costs. You have to reduce points of failure to their minimum.
The Touch Bar was a great idea but failed in reality because users preferred a normal keyboard and there were a significant number of Touch Bars that broke or glitched.
Every feature must also have a productive use not just aesthetic.
We've completely redesigned the back of the iPad and I know you're just going to love it! Now, instead of the logo being the wrong way up when you hold your iPad landscape, it will be the wrong way up when you hold it portrait. We call it the all-new Innovative Courageous Logo Rotational Configuration Optimisation! Pause for whoops and cheers...
I am hoping and expecting that we next year get an iPad that is a bit taller/ or that they shrink the bezels so that they get 12” and 14”.
I agree, my comment was meant to be sarcastic, but I clearly didn't make that clear enough
Since when was it meant to be a creative tool? It literally was just a device to consume content. The Pro model was the moment it was supposed to be a creative tool. And it still gets used mostly for consuming content.
OP is correct. The first iPad was criticised as a consumption device (no camera). Steve took this feedback and focused on it being a creative device.
Does Tim strike you as a visionary? Other than maybe pride watch bands and faces. He's an OPs guy.
Yep. Steve was also opposed to a larger iPad, he said 9 inches was the perfect size. By the way, he also said 4 inches was the perfect size for an iPhone screen. We have Timmy to thank for the larger screen devices.
That is the purpose of the regular iPad, which Apple offers with ridiculous and outdated specifications.
Apple wants to sell us the iPad Pros, as a replacement or alternative to laptops, despite general rejection of the idea by the public. The problem is not the price, the size, the quality of the screen or any other hardware specification but the OS. That OS is good for he iPhone or the first type of iPad (Job's iPads), but not for laptop-like work in many cases. Even if you can use a laptop or a tablet as equivalents for your work, tablets have no specific advantages (same size, weight, and cost when you add a keyboard, etc.).
If SJ wanted the pencil he would have had it on day 1. He did not.
It was more than leather stitching... that was just one of the elements that most grates.
At least buttons were identifiable as something to click. If you've ever worked with blind, elderly or disabled clients you would know that not all modern UI design assists them as well as it should.
I’m not sure what you mean by “glorified iPhone” but I wish Apple would give the iPad product line the same amount of love and attention as it gives the iPhone.
Wow!!! This change will reverberate for generations to come!!!
Thank you, MacRumors, for the heads up as we need all the lead time we can get to handle this momentous upcoming change.
Thank you, MacRumors, for the heads up as we need all the lead time we can get to handle this momentous upcoming change.
All the sarcasm directed at MacRumors is odd. Reorienting the iPad Apple logo is actually newsworthy due to the implications of doing so. This is a hint at where they’re going with the device. There’s a reason behind the change. Some of you need to think a level deeper before popping off.
From another perspective the iPhone is a tiny iPad that’s too small for running its OS optimally. I could just as validly say that the iPhone was, is and always will be just a dumbed down iPad.