I am in the market for a new iPad, and I would gladly pay that much for an updated iPad with pro specs which will serve me well for work.
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Apple's 'iPad Air 3' to Be Branded as an iPad Pro With Smart Keyboard and Apple Pencil Support
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Yes, it makes sense from Apple's point of view when their profit margins are concerned. However, from European and Canadian customers' perspective the devices just got quite a lot more expensive as our salaries won't follow the exchange rate fluctuations. They are reaching the point where many could be settling for competitors' devices as the Apple gear becomes too expensive to justify the purchase.
I agree with you, i hated the "Air" branding since the beginning but as I said, why make it worse
Yes too greedy and also too messy in terms of product lines. They are doing too many things and too many kinds of each thing with unclear denominations for the customers. I hate to say "if Steve Jobs was here", but it is difficult not to look back at his previous disappearance from Apple management and see the same symptoms.
Ok, that just says more about what you don't do with your computing device than the capability of the ipad
As soon as AirPrint came out, the iPad became good enough for the average person.
I knew somebody was gonna say that.
It says more about what I don't do? No it doesn't.
I'm not gonna lie. I used to use newsgroups, torrents, etc. to pick up the odd movie here & there.
But with iPad, that's the only thing that I can't do that I used to be able to do with a Mac.
The only thing.
Now, I just pay the lousy stinking $2-3 and rent it from the iTunes app.
Sure, there're ways to shoehorn a torrent client onto iPad.
But that involves jailbreaking, something that's becoming more & more of a risky proposition by the day.
And torrent downloading sites give me the willys.
Yeah, right. 'Cause iPad's just a $500 video & game player.
Oh that's right, it isn't.
Sooner rather than later, you'll be using "Final Cut PRO-8K" on iPad.
This sort of naming jumbo jumbo is what happens when you feel compelled to bring something "new" to the table every year. It's the way the current market is, largely shaped by Apple, and it demands a "brand new" product be revealed to take replace that crap year old piece of junk you have sitting in front of you.
are you complaining about the industry model for releases or about apple? apple may have started it with the iPhone, but seems like it's pretty standard based on everyone else's efforts too. specialty products (like Wacom's) don't seem to do this, but that's cause they're in a different market.
yearly advances in things like BT, battery, display, etc just means they're available each year to be incorporated into existing products. hence, competition. i feel like your comment is cynical for cynicism's sake.
Perhaps the following will happen(hope so!).
Apple will release new laptops in June:
Drop the MacBook Air .
MacBook 12 inch updated with skylake
MacBook 14 inch
MacBook Pro 14 inch
MacBook Pro 16 inch
Same styling and design , perhaps the pro ' s will be a little thicker.
Line up iPads after March:
Drop the air and mini names.
7.9 iPad
9.7 iPad
9.7 iPad Pro
12.9 iPad Pro
Line up iPhones after September
iPhone SE 16gb for 449us
4.7 iPhone 6s 16gb 549 us
5.5 iPhone 6s+ 16gb 649 us
4.7 iPhone 7 16gb 649 us
5.5 iPhone 7+16gb (Not sure about this one, perhaps replaced by iPhone 7 pro) 749 us
5.5-6.0 iPhone 7 pro with dual lens set-up, , faster clocked a10 and more powerful gpu with 3 or 4gb, and perhaps on-screen 3D /force touch home button and in screen fingerprint reader starting and splitscreen multitasking starting at 32gb for 899 and 128gb for 1049.
The pro models will have the newer features, techniques,will have lower yields at the start, so margins will be less. But due to higher prices won' t affect margins as much.
After testing the newer features in the pro models and increasing yields/reducing costs and increasing app support for the features, some of these pro features will be introduced in the regular /non-pro models in the following cycle.
Apple will release new laptops in June:
Drop the MacBook Air .
MacBook 12 inch updated with skylake
MacBook 14 inch
MacBook Pro 14 inch
MacBook Pro 16 inch
Same styling and design , perhaps the pro ' s will be a little thicker.
Line up iPads after March:
Drop the air and mini names.
7.9 iPad
9.7 iPad
9.7 iPad Pro
12.9 iPad Pro
Line up iPhones after September
iPhone SE 16gb for 449us
4.7 iPhone 6s 16gb 549 us
5.5 iPhone 6s+ 16gb 649 us
4.7 iPhone 7 16gb 649 us
5.5 iPhone 7+16gb (Not sure about this one, perhaps replaced by iPhone 7 pro) 749 us
5.5-6.0 iPhone 7 pro with dual lens set-up, , faster clocked a10 and more powerful gpu with 3 or 4gb, and perhaps on-screen 3D /force touch home button and in screen fingerprint reader starting and splitscreen multitasking starting at 32gb for 899 and 128gb for 1049.
The pro models will have the newer features, techniques,will have lower yields at the start, so margins will be less. But due to higher prices won' t affect margins as much.
After testing the newer features in the pro models and increasing yields/reducing costs and increasing app support for the features, some of these pro features will be introduced in the regular /non-pro models in the following cycle.
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iPad 9.7" Pro: Apple should have just waited on the 12.9" Pro and released them together. Now how are the upgrade cycles going to work for these devices, with the 12.9" Pro having already been out for five months? And when are these tablets getting 3D Touch, or is Apple just going to let this feature die? It seems like a bad move on Apple's part to limit 3D Touch to the iPhone; what's the incentive for developers to implement this feature into their apps? There needs to be more devices that support it. Everyone is reporting no 3D Touch on the new iPad, but I'm hoping Apple surprises us. After all, they've had five extra months to work on scaling the technology....
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Smart case and pencil are all very sleek and sexy, but what would be revolutionary for us pro users would be the addition of an optional finder in iOS, or file/root access without JBing ones device.
I've tried to use my iPad as laptop replacement, I've been using a keyboard now since the original model. My current iPad Air 2, is coupled with a Belkin qode pro, white, with backlit keys. The keyboard truly adds another dimension to its potential productivity. However, I miss finder, and. Being able to access, view, edit and sort files quickly on the fly. I tried a personal cloud solution using qsync on my qnap sever that sinks all my files on my home sever. Unfortunately, due to Apple being so restrictive on OS X it is not the most functional and eloquent solution cf my MBP.
I've tried to use my iPad as laptop replacement, I've been using a keyboard now since the original model. My current iPad Air 2, is coupled with a Belkin qode pro, white, with backlit keys. The keyboard truly adds another dimension to its potential productivity. However, I miss finder, and. Being able to access, view, edit and sort files quickly on the fly. I tried a personal cloud solution using qsync on my qnap sever that sinks all my files on my home sever. Unfortunately, due to Apple being so restrictive on OS X it is not the most functional and eloquent solution cf my MBP.
Awesome. I have high expectation about iPad Pro 9.7". However, I care more about its price. Hope the price will be as same as iPad Air.
Really? What happened to freedom of speech?
What, somebody's not supposed to say something because you find it unpleasant?
What a laugh ....
If you don't wanna hear something THEN DON'T LISTEN,
but to tell someone they "can't" say it just because you don't like it ....
That's insane.
The world's not a very nice place. Expect a bloody nose now & again.
Why not?
It is not bigger than a current 15 inch MacBook with the huge bezels .
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Next iPad Pro in 9.7 inch and 12.9 inch: March 2017.
3D Touch will be implemented in iPad pro' s in that release.
March will be: new iPads (just the pro' s?) +once in a while other products( smaller iPhones once in 2 years, small watch updates)
June : new Macs and preview of new iOS and OS X , new services.
September: new iPhone , Apple Watch
October/November: new iPads (non pro) + Apple TV?
They will try to spread things more in a year instead of just one huge event.
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Maybe there are issues getting 3D touch to work on a large screen? Maybe there are issues getting 3D touch to work alongside the pencil tech and they are prioritising that?
as for developers - there are tens of millions of iphones out there with 3D touch - thats a decent incentive. Adding a few more ipads won't make much difference. 3D touch is best suited to phones anyway (on the move, one handed use, quick access to things)
IMO it is more important for developers (and Apple) to get more pencil support, and bringing pencil to the lower end (and higher volume) ipad 9.7" will really help with that.
I am waiting for the people now that want pencil support on the new iPad mini and smart connector /keyboard compatibility ( spoiler: won' t happen, there will not be a pro version of the mini)..
They'd still have to make the MBP a bit larger to accommodate the screen, and the larger LCD would cost more to make. There is no real advantage to a slightly bigger screen and thus no compelling reason to make one.
No, they wouldn' t have to do that. A current MacBook pro has large bezels. It would fit the current footprint.
And the price? They would charge us 50 us more or something like that .
With your way of thinking they would never have released a 27 inch 5k iMac .
That' s Apple, they give us a little bit more and charge more.
We have had the same MacBook Pro design for 7 years now, ok, they slimmed it down a little.
It is time for a new design. Ik hope they use the same design as the MacBook , but a little bit thicker to make room for better hw.
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Theres a lot of stuff surrounding the bezel that is still needed so ut is not so simple as making a smaller bezel.
That assumes it would only adds $10 or so to manufacture. If it costs $50 to make that will add more like $150 to the price.
I'd guess Apple would be more likely innovate with a slimmer 15 inch 4k MBP than a fatter 16 inch one. It simply makes no sense given Apple's direction with its laptop products.
It will not be fatter than a current MacBook pro, quite a lot thinner. It would be a hair thicker than the current 12 inch MacBook .
And for the 16 inch MacBook Pro, there are a few professional reporters, that indicated it could go into that direction:
http://9to5mac.com/2016/01/25/2016-macbooks-opinion/
If you look at the article you referenced it is a wild guess:
I’ll end on a wildcard: with Apple having seemingly moved from the 11-inch MacBook Air to a 12-inch MacBook, there is the possibility of a move from 13- and 15-inch machines to 14- and 16-inch, without any increase in the overall dimensions. If Apple did that with the MacBook Pro only, it could further differentiate the ranges.
I also disagree with the idea you can shoehorn a 16 inch display in the current space so no size increase is required.
Apple already differentuates the MBP on performance and storage specs. If I was to take a wild guess I think dumping the 13 inch would be more likely than a 16 inch MBP. Given that has about a 0% chance of happening I think a 16 inch MBP is a pipe dream.
Ok, we disagree, and is speculation.
But about the 16 inch display not fitting?
Remember the 15 inch MacBook Pro is actually 15,4 inch.
Look at these pictures of the dell infinity 13 inch with small bezel ips and 3200x1800 res. and the comparison between a 13 inch dell infinity and 13 inch 2015 MacBook Air.