Apple Sold Fewer iPads Year Over Year for 13th Straight Quarter as Tablet Market Shrinks to Five-Year Low

[Essaux]

I own an iPad Pro and a MBPr totl, and there is no way that the iPad is even close to replacing a laptop. I hope Tim Cook takes note and leaves his ivory tower and realises that the MacBook Pro is still the core essence of computing and programming.

 

[Gameboy70]

Your phones don't need to be upgraded very often either.

"Need" is overstating the case. I think the main difference between phone and tablet demand is that phones we use phones all day, every day, while tablet use tends to be limited to more stationary scenarios—the bed, the couch, coffeeshops—so the market is much hungrier for new iPhones than iPads.
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Allowing tablets to have multiple accounts means that the devices can be shared; obviously. Shared machines reduces the need to purchase fewer machines for a household family. Apple wants each person to have his/her own device since that means more sales.
its all about the money.

Given that Apple thinks iOS users' heads would explode if they had to use a file manager, it seems unrealistic to expect multiuser logins anytime soon. As someone else replied in effect, it's easier to by a few $50 Fires than a single $300 communal iPad.

 

[Gameboy70]

"I think if you're looking at a PC, why would you buy a PC anymore? No really, why would you buy one?" -- Tim Cook

Can't we get rid of this bozo?

Apple's strained attempts to market the iPad as a "PC" (desktop/laptop) replacement, is as awkward is Ballmer's "Windows Everywhere" campaigns in the 2000s. Most iPads are purchased for their convenience, not their utility, in addition to laptops they already own.
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This. No way am I splashing over a £1000 on a Pro with keyboard and pen when it can't even be shared by the household.

Crazy.

Especially when it is "okay for schools to have multi user iPads"

As I mentioned in a previous post, Apple thinks even file managers are too complicated for iOS users. There's no reason to expect them to think that self-managed multiuser logins would fit the "It Just Works" paradigm. Schools have admins to switch and configure user accounts.

 

[alexgowers]

Congrats on the books!
If you really want to make and edit audio podcasts, there is definitely a way to do the process entirely on iPad. You've just got to find the right app

The thing is finding the right App on an iPad is really hard. Most apps are relatively simple or lack features due to their low selling price or are so full of adverts and freemium features they are unusable. Not having file organisation apart from iCloud also completely destroys any hope of iPads replacing full OS environments too.

I really wish apple would acknowledge that the iPad has matured and introduce a much deep pro version for tablets for all iPads. You wouldn't need to alter current apps but instead add some pretty basic APIs to deal with more files. For me it's simple things that even on a laptop requires workarounds, like downloading a youtube video to then put it in a video project or sampling audio from a movie or digital file and cutting it to use elsewhere.

At the end of the day, what you can't do with an iPad that you can do with a laptop is just WAY too long.

 

[Hym tix]

The thing is finding the right App on an iPad is really hard. Most apps are relatively simple or lack features due to their low selling price

Try Cubasis LE,
https://appsto.re/us/5Pk96.i
it is by Steinberg, and free. There is also paid version with more features.

Or my favorite is Auria Pro, an Audio workstation designed for iPad. It is powerful and also not cheap (for an iOS app)

 

[elistan]

Well, I caved. I just ordered one of the new low-cost non-Pro iPads. ggwp, Apple. Instead of getting what I hoped, an A10 equipped Pro, and keeping it for five years, I think I can use a standard iPad to be replaced every three years and come out ahead in cost. Plus I'm more likely to stay current on iOS version. I didn't need any of the Pro features, I just wanted something fast enough to last several years. (My current iPad is the first retina version, from five years ago, and it works perfectly except it doesn't have enough CPU and RAM to handle many webpages or large PDFs, plus it only runs iOS 9.)

 

[Abazigal]

Oh! A 27" iPad Pro? With the same thickness? I'd buy in a heart beat!

I actually see Apple releasing one in the near future. It would basically be their version of the surface studio.

 

[skellener]

Here are the apps on my iPad. I don't need really great apps which induce a multi-orgasmic thrill ride when I use them. Just need a desire to use the iPad and the will to make it work. The form factor, battery life and ease of use certainly help too.

I love my iPad Pro, but it just doesn't really do much. I haven't found anything really that useful. No thanks to Apple I have a great keyboard (The Brydge), but I haven't found anything to be productive with on it. You are doing better than me. I still need a Mac at this point.

 

[Technarchy]

The iPad has been out 2010, and they are not upgraded every year unless a highly motivating new generation is released. Over time that will impact sales.

Not a huge deal. iPad ≠ iPhone

I've got an iPad Mini4 and I just don't have a good reason to consider another purchase for now.

Though, I am a highly satisfied customer as well. The iPad is a rock solid product.

 

[itsamacthing]

OH so in other words you want a Mac. So get a Mac.

I have a MacBook and others, the MacBook is the mac you mentioned above. But the point is the iPad would be more useful and productive with more capabilities and Apple has mentioned we are going to see more capabilities from the iPad to make it more productive and hopefully attract more buyers since it can do more productivity...since they clearly are not going to come out with a hybrid touch screen MacOS device. If you have been following the situation, you would follow me and my point.