iPad: For people with more dollars than sense but also hate the idea sustainability!
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Apple Says Future iPads Could Feature Landscape Apple Logo
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“More dollars than sense”
Weird thing to say. iPad is unique in its usefulness. I can’t do many of the things I do on iPad on my phone.
“Hate the idea of sustainability”
How? I upgrade my iPhone every one or two years. iPads hang around for five or more. Seems to me that the iPhone is a larger “threat to sustainability” (whatever that vague smear even means) than iPad.
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Please stop. If you are just going to insult people here you're not going to make any friends.
If you really have something to say please expand and give us some context. What devices do you use? I've had several iPads and most of them are still in use, but by others.
Make it auto-rotate depending on the orientation of the iPad 
Of course not! They want to force you to buy a separate one for your kids.
Make it auto-rotate depending on the orientation of the iPad
Dump the external screen on Vision and use the same tech to make the logo on iPad into a screen that can rotate the logo by orientation and be customized to match your desktop theme.
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Phil Schiller continues to show us how wrong we were about innovation.
So, in this regard, Apple has produced two devices that are not designed properly for their own use case, but people still love it and use them extensively, and here we are today.
Hmm……never thought about iPad and iPhone both being amazingly boring in a sense.
laughing WITH you not AT you on this...
People get so bent out of shape on what Apple call out as features... emojis are always a cheap laugh even though Apple dont control them. A change in orientation of the logo may indeed be a pointer to the direction Apple intend to take the iPad FUNCTIONALLY. it might be a simple cosmetic change but it could be more than that too.
but sarcasm is strong here at times...
Yes, a pencil was designed for precision. Fingers were for everyday touch. UI built to be finger friendly first.
Haha, yep! I was going to say something similar... which is probably where there's 300 comments on this piece of non-news.
I get what you're saying but to me that doesn't sound like the answer. I don't want my device flipping between two different operating systems and two different sets of apps depending on whether it's linked to a keyboard and mouse/trackpad. I want the same OS and same apps available regardless, otherwise users could be caught in a bind if they need to access something from a macOS app but left their Magic Keyboard at home.
I absolutely support Apple enabling a DEX-like, macOS-like experience based on iPadOS when docked to a keyboard/mouse/trackpad. Stage Manager is a nice try but is still too clunky. But I would rather see Apple prodding developers to beef up the capabilities of their iPad apps rather than just allowing Mac apps to run. Apps are the biggest deficiency in my eyes. (Of course plenty of developers don't want to have to deal with the App Store, so there's that).
I know that but the OP claimed Steve would be rolling in his grave because it was designed as a creative tool, which is not the case.
Regarding the iPad Pro, it was a phenomenally productive device in my undergraduate and medical school years. Now I’m looking to add an iPad Mini as my companion for in-hospital rotations and quick notes. The iPad in its many forms is all the computer I need at this stage in my life. A Pro device for home/travel and a Mini for work.
I’m surprised Apple hasn’t made that logo a sort of Apple Watch screen where the logo changes orientation when the device changes the orientation. You have to admit, that would be pretty cool.
It's an observation, not an insult. An observation that is pointed and perhaps slightly hyperbolic, but not without reason.
Every iPad to date is a severely compromised "solution" that does nothing as well as every device it purports to replace. I'm not so naïve as to expect a corporation to leave money on the table due to some principled stance, but the iPad has always struck me as Apple's most egregious F-U to consumers, especially since the later A-series up through the current M-series: literally all the power of fully-fledged notebook but completely arbitrarily hampered.
To be clear: I am not a hater. I am a fan of Apple's hardware. I've given them thousands of my personal dollars for Macs and iPhones (going back to the 4), while also directing thousands more their way through my jobs. I've (usually willingly, occasionally begrudgingly) accepted the limitations they impose on their mobile devices in return for a (generally) smooth user experience, better security/privacy, and having actual customer service. I have owned Windows and Android devices for when factors demanded it (cost, unacceptable limitations, superior solution for a given need, etc.) I have/do own(ed) those concurrently.
But I simply cannot view the iPad in it's current form as a reasonable compromise. That they see extended use lives still doesn't change the fact that they were most likely an unnecessary purchase to begin with, justified with mental gymnastics like most disposable electronics—which now Apple has turned its notebooks into sadly, despite having one of the most truly exceptional advancements in processor architecture/platforms in recent history.