And they are amazing and wait till IOS 11 drops the appeal will be even stronger I have no doubts.
Good news. The new iPad Pros have 4GB of ram.The last iPad i owned was the iPad3. This has been the best update since that upgrade. However, I'm happy with the latest Kindle Fire as a tablet. However, the new direction of the iPad has me thinking about picking one up should the software open up a tiny bit more, the graphics are improved upon and Apple adds at least 3GB of RAM.
Within 2-3 years, especially with the improvements of 10nm+, I can see the iPad replacing the MacBook.
The $329 9.7" iPad is the perfect device for K-12 whom can longer afford to buy MacBooks. The MD101 was the last "affordable" mac for education and now that textbooks are digital and the tablets offer so much functionality it's a home run for Apple both for the educational and consumer markets.
It was the mini 2 that they added TouchID to and called it a mini 3. And if the Air 2 wasn't a big upgrade from the Air I don't know what would be.
You got your numbers mixed up. It was mini 2 to mini 3 that was the ripoff. All they did was add Touch ID. 3 to 4 was a real upgrade, hardware wise. As was Air 1 to 2.
But yeah, not giant leaps like the current crop that's for sure.
You want to place a bet on that?That's what happens when you come out with a newish product, sales go up, and next quarter iPad sales will slip again when people realize there is nothing new about iPad, or tablets, for years now.
That's what happens when you come out with a newish product, sales go up, and next quarter iPad sales will slip again when people realize there is nothing new about iPad, or tablets, for years now.
You want to place a bet on that?
The Air 2 was an absolute beast of a tablet
Except there wasn't a single poor review for the mini 4.
The 2GB RAM you call a "joke" is the amount in the 9.7" iPad (2017). Like it or not, it helped lift iPad sales back to growth.
Your entire premise is flawed — most people don’t upgrade ipads to the next version just because.Well, no. The old strategy of adding Touch ID to the mini 2 and calling it a 3, adding a chip to the Air and calling it and Air 2 was killing sales. Most people are not going to spend hundreds of $ to update to essentially the same device. This year's crop of iPads is really the first "all new" line up since the Air and Mini 2.
Edit: corrected mini 2 to 3 from 3 to 4.
This year's crop of iPads is really the first "all new" line up since the Air and Mini 2.
Air 2 first iPAd to offer laminated screen, 2 gig of memory, touch ID. Performance was leaps ahead of the Air 1. Air 2 also added wireless AC
Your entire premise is flawed — most people don’t upgrade ipads to the next version just because.
Incremental improvement is the name of the game. The Air 2 rocks.
It's highly doubtful that the iPad Pro was the majority of Q3 iPad sales. The numbers don't support that being the case. A 15% increase in sales volume vs a 2% increase in revenue suggests a lower priced item drove the majority of the sales. Another data point in favor of the majority of sales being the lower priced iPad? ASP. The ASP went from $490 in Q3 2016 down to $435 in Q3 2017.I'd be interested to see that too, because I think while the majority will be the 10.5' Pro...
Apple's fiscal quarters do not line up with calendar year quarters. Their fiscal year runs Sept. through Sept.Quarter 3 sales? Aren't we just 1 month into Quarter 3 yet?
The $329 9.7" iPad is the perfect device for K-12 whom can longer afford to buy MacBooks. The MD101 was the last "affordable" mac for education and now that textbooks are digital and the tablets offer so much functionality it's a home run for Apple both for the educational and consumer markets.
Yep this. The problem is iPads are more than good enough and aren't subject to the abuse that smartphones are. Their upgrade schedule is going to be more akin to PCs than smartphones.No, not going into back to school (FY 4Q) and Holiday (FY 1Q). Versions of the 12.9 are still not uniformly available and discounting now is less than at this point of the last iPP release. Demand will be good throughout the end of the calendar year because they are strong products and iOS 11 will make them even better. Saturation will start showing FY 2Q. Then the question will be is the iPad leveling off higher YOY, the same, or did it crater.
I think the fact iPad sales are up at all is evidence that consumer interest in tablets still very much exists; that it wasn't a fad as some said. This was a significant sales uptick. Companies just have to adjust to consumers upgrade schedules and also make compelling updates that hasten consumer buying decisions.
K-12 has moved from Macs/iPads to Chromebooks en masse. The price/performance/convenience of Chromebooks + Google Apps for education is unbeatable. You can get 2 Chromebooks for every 2017 iPad 9.7.
I'm one of those new iPad owners. The new 10.5 iPad Pro with iOS 11 sold me.
I've owned an iPad in the past (3 years ago) ... but I ended up selling it because it didn't really keep me using it on a daily basis. This new 10.5 has been my new go-to device. I use it more than my iPhone and MacBook Air now.