Best Buy's Canadian Site Lists October 23 Release Date for iPad Air

[gautampw]

Why is that? I'm probably gonna buy the Air just for taking notes / drawing unless the 120hz is really that much of a difference in the pro (have to compare it in real life). But I would never edit pictures or cutting videos on it so I don't really know why people need so much power in a tablet. Sure not for gaming, because gamers would be on windows systems anyway. 64gb is also plenty enough, storage is in the cloud. If I would need the 128gb version then I would also tend to buy the pro but with 64gb price is allright.

I am using iPad Pro myself but am going to get Air for my sister. If you are going to use it for notes though and planning to use the pencil a lot, then get Pro instead as pencil latency improves massively on Pro (I’ve compared it to original iPad Pro 10.5 and iPad 7th gen.)

 

[The Cappy]

"The fourth-generation ‌iPad‌ Air models feature an edge-to-edge display ..."
They really don't, you know.

 

[Chompineer]

IPad Pro is better get 2018 one cheap, promotion is worth it and faceid
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I would tell everyone it’s better to go for the 2018 pro with 120hz and faceid

Face ID on an iPad is a pain in the ass when you typically use it flat on a desk. It’s the one thing I hate about my pro (so much so I just have it off).

 

[gautampw]

Face ID on an iPad is a pain in the ass when you typically use it flat on a desk. It’s the one thing I hate about my pro (so much so I just have it off).

what frustrates me more is how there is 3 second delay before pin code numbed pops up, and even if I'm using it in front of me, it keeps saying face is too far away. I wish we had both touch and Face ID on Apple devices.

 

[CarlJ]

Yeah it’s pointless I think the air, it’s a product for kids, the pro has promotion faceid slimmer bezels and is cheaper on some sites

What is it with this tendency to insist that something that is different than what you want “is (only) for kids”? I know university professors who are happily and effectively using iPad Airs (previous gen) in their teaching. Do you think they are kids? I find TouchID much more compelling than FaceID these days. Is TouchID somehow only suitable for children? I’m using an iPad Air 3 and don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything without ProMotion - still haven’t seen the need for it. It’s just a weird argument. All I can figure is it makes you feel like a big boy that you prefer the one you feel is “for grownups” over the one you insisist is “for kids”. Personally, I’d love to upgrade to the iPad Air 4, while I see the iPad Pro as costing stupidly large amounts of money that doesn’t really pay off unless you’re drawing on it professionally for 8 hours a day.

 

[Expos of 1969]

What is it with this tendency to insist that something that is different than what you want “is (only) for kids”? I know university professors who are happily and effectively using iPad Airs (previous gen) in their teaching. Do you think they are kids? I find TouchID much more compelling than FaceID these days. Is TouchID somehow only suitable for children? I’m using an iPad Air 3 and don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything without ProMotion - still haven’t seen the need for it. It’s just a weird argument. All I can figure is it makes you feel like a big boy that you prefer the one you feel is “for grownups” over the one you insisist is “for kids”. Personally, I’d love to upgrade to the iPad Air 4, while I see the iPad Pro as costing stupidly large amounts of money that doesn’t really pay off unless you’re drawing on it professionally for 8 hours a day.

Geez Carl, I agree with you which is unusual. I have the iPad 8th gen and that is a machine that can do a lot. It has TouchID and that is fine. I have no interest in FaceID on a tablet or phone.

 

[CarlJ]

Please! I'm not saying you're wrong about them not wanting to release it before the iPhone 12, but how much is that going to hurt sales? What percentage of buyers care or even know about benchmarks, and even for those who do, why would that make them less likely to buy, unless the benchmarks are really bad for some reason, which doesn't seem likely.

The benchmarks will be really good. It the message they want all over the media and Twitter isn’t “the A14 is great, oh and isn’t that the same chip that’s going to be in the iPhone soon?” (followed weeks later by “oh, the iPhone, yeah, it’s got that same chip”), they want the message to be “the iPhone 12 is THE FASTEST BESTEST PHONE EVER!”, plastered all over every media outlet. That message is worth much more to them, because they’ll sell an order of magnitude more iPhones than iPads.

 

[CarlJ]

I really, really want this iPad but the long gap between announcement and release is making me realize that buying a new Air would be overkill for my casual use.

And this is precisely why they didn’t announce the iPhone 12 at the same time - there were spa lot of folks, at the time of the iPad event saying, “why not just announce the iPhone now too, even if we can’t order it right away?” Because giving people time to have second thoughts (or not) translates into tens of millions of dollars one way or the other for Apple.

 

[KPOM]

so strange how this was announced like a month before the iPhone which takes pre-orders tomorrow and this does not even have an official release date.

I kind of want it because the battery on my 10.5 iPad Pro has taken a big hit (its at 81% capacity) but on the other hand, the iPhone 12 Pro Max will be expensive enough, especially in those uncertain COVID-19 times

My guess is that Apple wanted a separate event to showcase the iPad series, rather than extending Tuesday’s presentation to more than 2 hours. The Watch launch wasn’t long enough for its own presentation.