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The only one who made the stuff up is Apple. They were the one who sold a 9 core GPU iPad Air as 10 core iPad Air.
Have you ever made a mistake? ;)

Infallible are you?

Did you personally buy one? Have you returned it?
 
'Yes I know we said there were 10 cores but there are only 9. Yes 9.
But they are big beautiful cores. The bestest cores youve ever seen. They're so wonderful they do the work of 10 cores"
 
Update on what happened last night. It took me hours to get home and I was too exhausted to tell this story. So yesterday I drove to the Apple Store but there was traffic all around. I had to park blocks away from the mall and walk. I thought there must be a concert, someone famous playing in the food court or something. I barely made it off the highway, there was bumper to bumper cars and people walking everywhere. Many had Apple Store bags. I parked on the side of the road cause I can’t move any further in. When I got out I started asking what this was all about. They said they were there to return their iPad Air? I said “what?” Another person chimed in, “yeah, Tim Cook ****ed up. Steve Jobs never would have done this.” Confusion still on my face, the guy explained, “see we bought the iPad Air because the tech specs page said it had a 10-core GPU…but then weeks later they said Oh My Bad it’s actually 9 cores so we’re here to riot or get our money back.” That’s when I realized I was inside a mob; a mob of thousands of iPad Air owners. They started pushing they were so angry. I could have said it still delivers 25% GPU performance over the last model, just as it was said in all the promotional material, but felt unsafe so I didn’t say anything, I just slowly edged my way and left. I never even made it inside of the mall. Can’t even imagine the bloodbath inside that Apple Store. People truly do care about their iPad Air having 10 cores. Lesson learned. You guys were right. Took like an hour to make my way back to the car cause I couldn’t back up against the movement of the crowd. It was wild. I had to go the long way where it was safer; had to avoid all the Apple Store bags in clenched fists. I did see one poor soul say, “it’s no big deal, it’s just an iPad Air,” but you don’t want to know what happened to him.
 
Have you ever made a mistake? ;)

Infallible are you?

Did you personally buy one? Have you returned it?
I have an iPad Pro M2. Who knows whether the count of GPU cores on it will stay the same or change after some days? For my mistakes, I pay. I think Apple should pay for its mistakes, not me :)
 
Ha Ha. I want Apple to confirm that all the specs of my iPad Pro are the right specs "after checking properly" this time :) Obviously, they can't count.
I don't know if it identifies the newer processors core counts, but have you tried Lirum Device info Light?

 
I have an iPad Pro M2. Who knows whether the count of GPU cores on it will stay the same or change after some days? For my mistakes, I pay. I think Apple should pay for its mistakes, not me :)
This just gets sillier...

Apple has not, withing days of release, changed the core count on your M2 iPad Pro to correct a typo.

No benchmarks have shown they lied about it.

You are just carrying on.
Stop wringing your hankies.
No one cares about the old iPad.
Nor to corrected typo on the new one.

Apple will not be paying anyone over this. Deal with it.
 
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I have an iPad Pro M2. Who knows whether the count of GPU cores on it will stay the same or change after some days? For my mistakes, I pay. I think Apple should pay for its mistakes, not me :)
GPU Cores can fall out of an iPad? You’d think they would have found them on some of the tear downs.
 
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This just gets sillier...

Apple has not, withing days of release, changed the core count on your M2 iPad Pro to correct a typo.

No benchmarks have shown they lied about it.

You are just carrying on.
Stop wringing your hankies.
No one cares about the old iPad.
Nor to corrected typo on the new one.

Apple will not be paying anyone over this. Deal with it.
When you are buying a product, for comparison, do you or do you not check the specs? Are specs not part of your decision-making process? That the specs are wrong and corrected later is akin to cheating. I might have bought a different product (maybe a different Apple product). You talk as if it is a small matter. What if the typo was not 10 instead of 9, what if it were 16 instead of 10, would it make a difference? Apple dropped the ball here and it should offer an extended return period. Period.
 
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I don't know if it identifies the newer processors core counts, but have you tried Lirum Device info Light?

Thank you. I will try that.
 
When you are buying a product, for comparison, do you or do you not check the specs? Are specs not part of your decision-making process? That the specs are wrong and corrected later is akin to cheating. I might have bought a different product (maybe a different Apple product). You talk as if it is a small matter. What if the typo was not 10 instead of 9, what if it were 16 instead of 10, would it make a difference? Apple dropped the ball here and it should offer an extended return period. Period.
Get over it dude.

Apple havent said they wouldnt offer an extended return period.

If you didnt buy one, it doesnt even affect you. You're just making noise.

No you add "what ifs". Last resort of the desperate argument.

It is a small matter. Only you are dragging it out. Everyone else has accepted the mistake/typo that was quickly corrected and moved on.
 
When you are buying a product, for comparison, do you or do you not check the specs? Are specs not part of your decision-making process? That the specs are wrong and corrected later is akin to cheating. I might have bought a different product (maybe a different Apple product). You talk as if it is a small matter. What if the typo was not 10 instead of 9, what if it were 16 instead of 10, would it make a difference? Apple dropped the ball here and it should offer an extended return period. Period.
Sorry, but if the specs are NOT corrected, that is akin to cheating. Correcting the specs is the opposite of that.

And you not only "might have", you DID buy a different product. You seem to be confusing your iPad Pro with an iPad Air, while they are distinctly different products. You should stop making fun of Apple's inability to count very small cores, if you apparently cannot even tell the difference between much larger iPads.
 
When you are buying a product, for comparison, do you or do you not check the specs? Are specs not part of your decision-making process? That the specs are wrong and corrected later is akin to cheating. I might have bought a different product (maybe a different Apple product).
Have you ever bought a burger or any other food, and it didn't look like it did in the advertising?
Do you compare advertised kilojoule amounts for actual kilojoule amounts? Now, that is going to be a lot more false than a typing error. Or don't you think fixing a typographical error is so much worse?

You talk as if it is a small matter. What if the typo was not 10 instead of 9, what if it were 16 instead of 10, would it make a difference? Apple dropped the ball here and it should offer an extended return period. Period.
It is a very very small matter, for those who don't exaggerate for no purpose at all. Get over it.

Was that how the 10 core M2 Chip became a 9 core one in the M2 iPad Air that is being discussed here?
So you are saying they changed the number of GPU Cores? Wow!!
 
Have you ever bought a burger or any other food, and it didn't look like it did in the advertising?
Do you compare advertised kilojoule amounts for actual kilojoule amounts? Now, that is going to be a lot more false than a typing error. Or don't you think fixing a typographical error is so much worse?
Not relevant at all. I do not buy those based on "specs."

It is a very very small matter, for those who don't exaggerate for no purpose at all. Get over it.
You must be very rich or not very particular. I will not be happy that Apple cheated me. You may be happy because you are probably used to Apple cheating you earlier? For me, it is a shock because it is a first time for me.

So you are saying they changed the number of GPU Cores? Wow!!
I don't know, I am asking you. You seem to suggest that is possible
 
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You must be very rich or not very particular. I will not be happy that Apple cheated me. You may be happy because you are probably used to Apple cheating you earlier? For me, it is a shock because it is a first time for me.

But how were you cheated? what harm was done to you because of this error?
 
Sorry, but if the specs are NOT corrected, that is akin to cheating. Correcting the specs is the opposite of that.

And you not only "might have", you DID buy a different product. You seem to be confusing your iPad Pro with an iPad Air, while they are distinctly different products. You should stop making fun of Apple's inability to count very small cores, if you apparently cannot even tell the difference between much larger iPads.
Correcting the specs after I (not me personally, but customers) bought them is cheating. Hullo, I am not confused. I have an iPad Pro M2, the issue is with iPad Air. But the issue was not identified at the time of launch and it took more than 20 days to identify it. Any guarantee that they will not identify that my iPad Pro has some issue after all this time? I do not have any trust now.
 
Get over it dude.

Apple havent said they wouldnt offer an extended return period.

If you didnt buy one, it doesnt even affect you. You're just making noise.

No you add "what ifs". Last resort of the desperate argument.

It is a small matter. Only you are dragging it out. Everyone else has accepted the mistake/typo that was quickly corrected and moved on.
Maybe you did not follow all my responses. In my country, there is no return policy at all.
 
Any guarantee that they will not identify that my iPad Pro has some issue after all this time? I do not have any trust now.
Thats not the sentiment of a rational person grounded in reality. Apple has been in business for 48 years and never developed a reputation for switching specs after the fact.

It's your human right to feel how you want, but its faulty pattern recognition and a fundamental understanding of the tech business to think Apple will reveal your 2-year old iPad Pro has missing GPU cores.

And I'm sorry that you can't return products in India but thats your government's fault for having poor consumer rights. You can't even return an iPad Air you never bought in the first place so all this arguing is for your entertainment only. If you can find real people in the real world suffering issues and needing to return it, due to it having 9 cores (1 more than an M2 Air, by the way), then you would have a case, but you don't, because you don't know anyone with an iPad Air who wants to return it.
 
Correcting the specs after I (not me personally, but customers) bought them is cheating. Hullo, I am not confused. I have an iPad Pro M2, the issue is with iPad Air. But the issue was not identified at the time of launch and it took more than 20 days to identify it. Any guarantee that they will not identify that my iPad Pro has some issue after all this time? I do not have any trust now.
Once again, you are getting this backwards. The scenario you are imagining is actually less probable because Apple corrected their own documentation mistake, not more probable. If someone else other than Apple was now pointing out that the iPad Air M2 had fewer cores, I could possibly see your concern, but Apple corrected the error within a few weeks of release. I agree it is sloppy, but I disagree that it makes any other documentation by them suspect, in fact, it is the opposite, as it proves that that someone at Apple does at least review their documentation output after the fact. Hopefully they promote the person that caught this so that they can review their documentation BEFORE the fact! 😀
 
I don't know, I am asking you. You seem to suggest that is possible
Yeah right. GPU cores can fall out…. Are you actually serious? I think you might have worked it out? Let’s face it. You've been told it was a typo. Apple admitted it was a typo. If you honestly think Apple should be held to account over a single corrected tiny error on a marketing document, then I am very sorry that you cant see the reality of this. But I think you actually know.
 
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Yeah right. GPU cores can fall out…. Are you actually serious? I think you might have worked it out? Let’s face it. You've been told it was a typo. Apple admitted it was a typo. If you honestly think Apple should be held to account over a single corrected tiny error on a marketing document, then I am very sorry that you cant see the reality of this. But I think you actually know.
Please check your response. You were the one who suggested it. Temporary Amnesia?
 
Once again, you are getting this backwards. The scenario you are imagining is actually less probable because Apple corrected their own documentation mistake, not more probable. If someone else other than Apple was now pointing out that the iPad Air M2 had fewer cores, I could possibly see your concern, but Apple corrected the error within a few weeks of release. I agree it is sloppy, but I disagree that it makes any other documentation by them suspect, in fact, it is the opposite, as it proves that that someone at Apple does at least review their documentation output after the fact. Hopefully they promote the person that caught this so that they can review their documentation BEFORE the fact! 😀
That is exactly my problem. How many marketing snafus are hiding in those sales pages? Can you guarantee that this is the only one? Did they catch all of them? If they had the capability, they would have caught this too before it happened. It means that this was a serendipitous catch. Until they catch others, we will not know if we have been affected by them.
It does not matter who made the error. It does not matter if it is trivial or earth shattering. They mentioned something in the specs. Users bought them based on those specs. Now the specs are corrected. The customers must be given an option to determine if their choice is correct. Maybe they will not return the iPad or only one out of the million sold will return theirs. That is an option that Apple has to give to the users (the word "choice", I guess, is an anathema to Apple fans). They cannot just say I made a mistake; I corrected it.
 
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