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Apple to Upgrade These Two Devices With OLED Displays Later This Year
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McWetty
macrumors 6502
Can we get an iPad mini Pro? All the frills of the big guy in an 8” screen? Please?
lilkwarrior
macrumors 6502a
lilkwarrior
macrumors 6502a
Of course it is a price increase. No different than going from a mechanical drive to an SSD with the same capacity (or fasten gen of SSDs to another).
An OLED with the same brightness and HDR capabilities (and better being OLED) has to cost more.
CarlJ
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Apple has used their most persuasive dialogs to convince their faithful followers of the technical advantages and necessity the notch and now Dynamic Island. It’s an addiction the company isn't about to abandon anytime soon. And many of their followers have bought in completely.
An addiction to the styling aspect which makes their products instantly recognizable as made by Apple. Obsessed with brand placement in movies, television and the like, Apples marketing arm is extremely powerful and influential within the corporation.
The single most annoying aspect of my iPhone 16 Pro Max and 16" MacBook Pro M4 Max is the Dynamic Island and Notch respectively. As my wonderful 13” M1 MacBook Air ages out, I will miss the beautiful unadulterated notch-less display.
lilkwarrior
macrumors 6502a
What exactly do you struggle with? OLED has far better response times, contrast, and saturation than other panel tech
Why not? If Air users want OLED, they can buy a Pro. If Mini users want OLED, they have nowhere to go currently.
I wonder how come is that oled screens on apple products have one of the worst pwm on the market, on par with samsung and google.
like why do they not put effort to improve this aspect that was critiqued for years.
like why do they not put effort to improve this aspect that was critiqued for years.
mike.coulter
macrumors 6502
Yes, I almost can't believe that people don't seem to be talking about them negatively anymore. If my M1 MacBook were to fail me the only portable Mac I could replace it with now is the Neo.
I7guy
macrumors Westmere
It’s true and fell for it hook, line and sinker. It’s a cool quick way to identify phones in the wild.
They do an unbelievably good job. We bought a lot of Apple gear this year to fill in the gaps.
Love the notch / Dynamic Island on my 15PM .
Get a neo.
Astuces iOS
macrumors 68020
tomtad
macrumors 68040
Certainly potential to reimagine the iPad mini here. Pitched correctly you could imagine this replacing a phone for some people when paired with a Watch for example
It is, but it means those who want a 11” or 13” iPad can choose to either wait until OLED filters down in some from or upgrade to the Tandem OLED of the Pro. Those wanting a smaller screen don’t have that option. Further, the Air has had 2 refreshes since Mini was last updated, so it is the Mini’s turn next even by its less frequent upgrade schedule.
The Air exists to upsell people from the base iPad to it or from it to the Pro. Apple wants to make maximum profit, not provide value for money (see the cost of storage upgrades and forcing Pro users to buy 1TB+ if they want Nanotexture or 16GB RAM.)
boston04and07
macrumors 68000
If Apple brazenly gave us OLED iPad mini with 60 Hz display like nintendo did, then I will skip it and accuse their greed!
usmaak
macrumors 65816
Looking at tandem makes my eyes burn and gives me eye pain and headaches. It has nothing to do with any of the listed benefits. I agree that it looks better but for some reason, my eyes can't handle it.