Because there seems to be a good audience for a premium tablet as Apple has demonstrated ever since the Pro things came to market. That buyer doesn’t want a traditional personal computer, they want a tablet as fancy as possible for their budget.
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Apple Working on 'Special Version' of iPadOS 17 for Larger iPads, Starting With 14.1-inch Model Set to Launch in 2024
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Because there seems to be a good audience for a premium tablet as Apple has demonstrated ever since the Pro things came to market. That buyer doesn’t want a traditional personal computer, they want a tablet as fancy as possible for their budget.
I have 3 iPad Pros. For me, the main issue is the keyboard. I cannot find a high-quality keyboard/mouse I can use.
Maybe, but it seems like some iPadOS modifications for a slight advantage to have more multitasking is not at all comparable to using a laptop running MacOS. For this to work it would need to be a at least 90 Hz OLED screen that offers way better display quality to temp someone IMHO.
if by merging you mean dumping that abortion of an operating system called iPadOS, I agree.
Oh man, someone please spill a beer into the deepest workings of that monstrosity!
Foosball is meant to be analog. Please, just let us have this one thing that remains imperfect and noisy...
If next years iPad Pro start at 1500 I can’t imagine the price of a 14 inch iPad
Thought it was being scrapped
Thought it was being scrapped
IMO they've been going that way the past few years at the very least, while repeatedly saying they weren't. We'll see MacOS iPads in this decade the latest, probably a MacBook-iPad fusion.
Gotta out-do the 27” tablet out there…
I wish I still had the link to the old video of the 27” iMac being used as an iPad
Not exactly much love there.
Gurman never seems to like it when other leakers exist. Seems he wants it to be all about him
I bought a new iPad Pro 12.9 this January hedging my bets that Apple is going to develop something great to justify all of this processing power. We shall see.
It's does make you wonder doesn't it?
I hope saying that we also expected this with iPadOS 14 and 15 was a whole lot of wishful think also.
Apple is developing a version of iPadOS 17 that is specifically designed for larger unreleased iPad sizes, the first of which will arrive next year, claims a new rumor.
According to the Twitter account holder @analyst941, a special version of Apple's upcoming iPad software will support the more advanced capabilities of a range of bigger iPads that are in the works, beginning with a 14.1-inch iPad with an M3 Pro chip that is set for release next year.
The leaker claims that the 14.1-inch iPad model will be able to run up to two 6K displays at 60Hz via Thunderbolt 4, with iPadOS 17 including support for the capability. As @analyst941 notes, this could be achieved by daisy-chaining displays, but it could also indicate that the larger iPad features multiple Thunderbolt ports instead of just one.
A 14.1-inch iPad would be the largest iPad to date, beating the current 12.9-inch iPad Pro size. The leaker suggests that Apple could adopt a new name for the larger forthcoming device(s) to differentiate them from the current crop, such as "iPad Ultra" or iPad Studio," although this specific claim appears to be based on speculation rather than hard evidence.
Apple is believed to have been working on iPads with even larger displays since mid-2021, but rumors have been conflicted about when the first models will arrive and in what size.
Bloomberg has repeatedly discussed Apple's interest in bigger iPads, while reliable display analyst Ross Young at one stage reported that a 14.1-inch iPad Pro with a mini-LED display was slated to launch in the first quarter of 2023.
However in December 2022, Young reversed his prediction and said that Apple is no longer planning to launch the new 14.1-inch form factor. Young suggested that the device was canceled entirely or significantly delayed.
Separately, in October 2022, The Information's Wayne Ma reported that Apple is developing a 16-inch iPad that it hopes to release in the fourth quarter of 2023. Despite that, larger iPad models were missing from Mark Gurman's Apple device roadmap for this year, saying that there will be no significant iPad hardware updates in 2023.
The anonymous source behind today's rumor leaked accurate information about the iPhone 14 Pro's Dynamic Island on the MacRumors Forums before the device was announced last year. However, they do not have a long-term track record with rumors yet, so there is no guarantee the latest information they shared will prove to be accurate.
Apple is expected to preview iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 during the WWDC 2023 keynote on June 5. For more on what to expect in the new software, click the iOS 17 tag below.
Article Link: Apple Working on 'Special Version' of iPadOS 17 for Larger iPads, Starting With 14.1-inch Model Set to Launch in 2024
Cool, let us run a legit OS on it so I can use Logic Pro with actual VSTs.
It is. But Apple is no where near bankruptcy this time around.
Not anytime soon but if they keep raising prices for no particular reason other than greed then sales will eventually fall. As they are beginning to slowly do now.
Customers are waking up to the fact an iPhone 14 Pro Max isn’t worth £1500 for a 256GB phone. Also they see straight through their greedy tiered pricing strategy by purposely gimping products.
In addition they keep burning money on useless products. The AR/VR headset for one is going to bomb. Then there’s the money burning research and development of an Apple car that may never materialise. Multiple product lines with multiple variations to confuse everyone. Products overlapping everywhere. They can’t even update the Mac Studio with an M2 because their chip development is stalling already and have nothing to put inside a new Mac Pro.
I don’t assume they’ll go near bankruptcy again but they may be in danger of falling off a cliff in sales.
Such a terrible argument. If i connect a keyboard and mouse, then I DONT NEED the touch screen. Windows can do it, why can't apple?
Is it really that easy to make up a rumor, be called an analyst and have Macrumors consider it news?
