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Apple's CFO Suggests iPad Pro Won't Be Refreshed in 2019
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Same here. iOS 13 didn’t change my battery life at all on my 12.9”.
Yes, I agree with you 100%. My iPad Pro 2018 has had the most impressive battery outta all my devices. Now, not so much. I thought it was because I had it for 1 year. Now I know why.
Same boat, I'm gonna wait till March. March will be here before you know it!
Apple's chief financial officer Luca Maestri has provided a clue that the iPad Pro might not be refreshed in 2019.
Speaking on Apple's earnings call this afternoon, Maestri said that Apple's revenue guidance for the holiday quarter accounts for the fact that the iPad Pro will have different launch timing on a year-over-year basis. Apple's holiday quarter runs from late September through the end of December.
In other words, while Apple refreshed its iPad Pro lineup in October 2018, Maestri is suggesting that there will not be another iPad Pro refresh until at least 2020 and that Apple has factored that decision into its guidance.
While multiple reports indicated that Apple planned to refresh the iPad Pro this October, it is unlikely with only one full day left in the month. One report did claim the iPad Pro will be updated in March 2020, a common month for an Apple event, and that timeframe is looking more likely in light of Maestri's comments.
The next iPad Pro models are expected to feature 3D sensing added to the rear-facing camera system, which could be expanded to three lenses like iPhone 11 Pro models. On a speculative note, the iPad Pro could also potentially beat iPhone 12 models to 5G, in line with the iPad gaining LTE support before the iPhone in 2012.
March 2020 would make sense given the 12.9-inch iPad Pro has been refreshed once every 18 months or so on average. A refresh this fall would have been around only 12 months after the October 2018 refresh. But, nothing is for certain.
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I been waiting on the new iPad Pro but seeing all the iPad Pro 2018 going on sale yesterday by Walmart and amazon etc Makes me think again,Apple has used a no-discount pricing strategy both with the products it sells in its own Apple retail stores and with the Apple products sold in all other retail chains like Wal-Mart and Best Buy,Apple seems to be able to control pricing on a global scale is with the severity of the consequences for breaking the no-discount-prices rule. To lose your official reseller certification is to lose a lot of potential future sales revenue.Knowing when theres a new generation of iPad, iPhone, iPod or computers that are about to be released, authorized Apple products dealers are given permission to discount their existing inventory to make room for the newest releases, the iPad is on sale for a lot and idk if that means it’s time for the new one to come out other then that I don’t see why they would authorize them to put it on sale then.
Dumb MR users who have been screaming for an event to announce iPad pros and all the other rumored items. Pros aren’t coming until 2020.
See the thing is, some rumors are indicating that we were going to see iPads around this time frame, which is why this article is kind of confirming that’s not the case here. Apples iPad cycle hasn’t really been consistent, as a matter fact, it’s been really complete opposite with the Pro lineup.
You may not want to, but try and full wipe of your iPad, restoring with iTunes (or Finder in Catalina) and do not restore from backup. I’ve actually only seen a slight improvement with my A11 iPhone X... but I do a fresh wipe with every major release to clean out odd bugs that tend to happen with updates.
if you’re getting a good sale I’d honestly recommend you get it. I was in the same boat as you until 3 weeks ago and I said screw it and got it for $250 off, the 12.9” WiFi. It’s so damn powerful a new processor really isn’t going to help much, the only thing that would make it worth waiting is if they’re OLED screens, not to say I don’t find anything wrong with the current iPhone screens.
Just go get it, really.
Wait, not until March but until Back to School special, you will get free Beats (valued $200-300) sometimes even $50 off. That’s the best time to buy an iPad.
My 11" definitely drains quicker than iOS12. Lucky to get 4hrs screen time on a charge.
This is a good post. When I was a product manager at a large tech company (not Apple), these kind of thought-out inputs from customers were like gold. I hope someone from Apple reads it.
1) “They say” Jobs had the next five upgrade cycles roadmapped? I think someone probably made that up. I’ve never heard that from anyone who would have been in a position to actually know.
2) If Apple saying a product is the “best one yet” and then proceeding to tell you why is so upsetting to you, you could always skip the keynote. Or maybe pay someone to edit out things you don’t like to hear.
3) HomePod is hardly a total catastrophe. Apple knew it was going to be a niche product, but it’s meant to complement Apple Music and increase the stickiness of the ecosystem, and increase services revenue. If I had to guess I’d estimate sales of maybe 10 million, a few billion in sales.
4) Sure Apple Watch is awesome, and is still gaining many new customers, but AirPods are great too. Mac, iPhone and iPad lineups are in excellent shape, as well
5) Apple didn’t pull the plug on the autonomous project, nor the Apple Car. I don’t think it’s a consumer product though, but a transportation as a service play.
4 hours of screen time? You should take that back to Apple ASAP They'll run diagnostics on it and replace it. That's like 6 hours less than normal. If I had an iPad that bad I couldn't even post about because I'd already have it replaced at my closest Apple store.
Most of what you’re saying should happen is already the way things are.
1) iPhone is on a yearly update cycle for a good reason, and is even more important now that upgrade cycles are moving into the 3-4 year range. Not everyone is on the same cycle. If you’ve got 800 million users upgrading, maybe 200 million upgrade in any given year. When they do upgrade, they want a relatively new device, not one that’s a year and a half old. With yearly releases, on average you’re going to be buying a six month old device.
Tens of millions update in the final quarter; sure the October-December quarter is best, but the other three aren’t exactly horrible. A purchase deferred from June to Sept is still a purchase.
2) iPad/iPad Pro/mini/Air aren’t on a yearly update cycle. Unlike iPhone, the volume isn’t sufficient. Even the highest volume model was just March 2018/Sept 2019.
3) New feature rollouts in .1, .2, .3 releases are already common. I can’t remember the last time all the features promised at WWDC came in the .0 release. They’re added when they’re ready. Some complain loudly and incessantly when that occurs but that’s no surprise
4) Apple could definitely do better from a QA standpoint, no doubt. But supporting fewer devices isn’t the answer, people want older devices supported. Reducing the number of new features would probably result in fewer bugs, however I don’t think slowing down the pace of innovation is a good solution.
Potential? iPhone 1 was a complete game changer. Google maps was and still is (imho) the most useful app on iPhone. iPhone 4 was when the masses started to catch on.
I am glad Apple is doing this. No reason to update the ipad pros EVERY year. 18 months is fine. I would even say every 2 years is fine.
I’m in the same situation. My iPad Pro 10.5” start aging, especially the battery (down to 86% of the original value, according to coconut) and I was planning for a Christmas gift for myself.
now I’m debated: a discounted iPad Pro or just wait six months (and pay the full price for it) ?
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I’m so tired about this “lack of innovation after jobs death” meme...
is just bs.
FaceID, Watch, AirPods, services ... Apple is much much bigger today.
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You keep saying ‘they’... but they do still have great battery life - it’s just yours that doesn’t seem to. My iPad Pro running iOS 13 lasts an incredible amount of time. Maybe you have a bad battery?
Are you suggesting iPads with home buttons won’t get iOS 14?
Zero chance of that being true.