This iPad is barely a quarter of an inch...
A quarter of an inch is 6.2 mm, this iPad thickness is 6.9 mm.
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Apple's Dan Riccio Says 2018 iPad Pro 'Meets or Exceeds' Quality Standards of Design and Precision, More Info to Come
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This iPad is barely a quarter of an inch...
A quarter of an inch is 6.2 mm, this iPad thickness is 6.9 mm.
I am not talking about changing grades of aluminum, I am talking about returning to a sturdier design. This is the first iPad design with this issue so prominent, if at all.
Use these Out Of The Box pictures instead of the OP MacRumors photo as a guide.
So nothing is perfect is the takeaway here right? I still remember when that $1.5 billion dollar mirror made for the Hubble Space Telescope was a little off and all the picture were fuzzy. It was only off by one-50th the thickness of a human hair. I guess if Apple has made it they would say no need to worry, it happens. Google Hubble's Mirror Flaw if you're not familiar.
No, as has been said before, this is from a post in MR, it was used for a week while travelling and stowed away in a backpack.
Back to engineering school for you. While hardening the tip of a screwdriver decreases wear over time, hardening the entire shaft would be dangerous, making it brittle and prone to catastrophic failure.
That might be, I don't have access to the actually engineering drawings, is the material the same, has it the same thickness.
This iPad is barely a quarter of an inch...
A quarter of an inch is 6.2 mm, this iPad thickness is 6.9 mm.
I'll let you think for a second about how stupid that comment is.
Sorry mate, I use them daily and some of them snap, I use the ones made for electricians, they are fully hardened although a bit less on the shaft, they bend slightly then snap.
The shaft on the screwdrivers we use has a thick (few mm's) plastic coating for safety.
Agreed. My 3 iPads and Kindle have been trickled down to my son. I have no need for them. Its a bigger iPhone and just clumsy and bulky to me. Its my iPhone or Mac, thats all I need. The novelty of a tablet dwindled quick for me a few years back since the debut of the iPad in '10.
I am painfully aware I bought 5 weeks ago. Luckily not too much. I should have known when I bought shares instead of new iPhones for the gang that something was afoot at the circle K. Why did i buy into a company that I didn't absolutely have to have their latest product. lol I just thought I would milk the suckers.
All good questions. I am wondering what the mindset was behind the decisions on these changes. Unfortunately, with Apple's recent behavior, I am inclined to think any changes were solely made with profit and aesthetics in mind rather than quality and durability. Which is why this particular episode is so offensive to me as a customer.
You are right. 99.999% of all of Apple's users are what we'd call "media consumers" and will never create any content at all. iPads are used for watching movies and surfing the 'net. For those uses, these really ARE better than a notebook computer. They are lighter and easier to drag around but still larger than a phone. I have an older 2nd gen iPad I used as a eBook reader.
Apple's device is the best reader for ePub books that I know of. But no way would I consider writing a book on an iPad. But I might consider using one as a drawing tablet if only I could draw freehand.
First of all, condescending post, it wasn't stupid, the gap was clearly less than half the thickness of the iPad, so yeah...
You don't know if it's an obvious flaw or wishful thinking it's an obvious flaw. I think the day has come and gone when anyone says anything, without proper facts and comes to a subjective conclusion.Apple fans dropping $2k are outraged . Non Apple fans probably thought this was an onion Article and are still in shock, and most people (Apple/non apple) are laughing at the people trying their hardest to defend this..... yes the day has come where some will defend even an obvious Flaw such as very obvious bent new device .
Big difference between outraged and laughing . About $2K invested
Luckily, with AAPL, what goes down must come up and break newer barriers
, we just have to play long.Told to ignore daily fluctuations by the investment gurus, now we have to see a 7+ week fluctuation as something we have to ignore unless we are day-traders
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I do understand, shaving off just 0.1 mm of the aluminium case would safe millions of $, I once worked in an American chocolate factory, choc bars should be 50 grams, any above that would cost millions a year, on the other side, they can't sell them if they are less than what the actual weight on the package says.
Funny you say that , and how do you come to that conclusion ? cause Apple and non Apple fans are laughing at the Apple statement , this is anything but subjective conclusion , but verging on delusional .
I think we are in an age where facts in fact don’t matter ..... it’s About feeling
