Most people - meaning people at home not using their machine for work who are writing emails, FaceTime, messaging, web, casual games, (home) photo and video editing little bit of productivity- home budgeting etc etc. These people now never need buy a Mac, now they could use a keyboard and mouse/trackpad for any precision tasks.
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Craig Federighi Demos New iPad Pro and Magic Keyboard
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I think it’s more that Apple simply hates moving parts. A kickstand may be functional, but to Apple, it takes away from the simplicity and the essence of the iPad - which is a single slab of glass.
It’s certainly not the first time Apple has resisted implementing a feature in order to preserve the design purity of their products, and it won’t be the last.
Many of us aren’t looking for an even heavier solution (which would be the result of shoving a battery in it)
I’m likely going to buy it, but not thrilled that you can’t fold the cover around the back to use it as a tablet. Not hard to remove the ipad from the case, of course, but then you’ve got to put the case somewhere, and it’s a nuisance.
What do you mean heavier?? The IPP keyboard is not going to become bulky by adding a built-in battery and it's imperceptible in weight.
I’ve got many battery packs. Weirdly, all of them take up space and have mass.
It probably wobbles and shakes too. Looks nice but probably will be a pain to use.
That sound likes a design flaw.
Did you try soaking them in hand sanitizer, drying them, then shaking them? Sometimes, a few Higgs bosons get stuck.
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The battery is very light and it's the same as smartphone battery.
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No, it is not “very light,” so stop just making stuff up.
First, you said 7000mAH. That’s more than twice the size of an iPhone battery. A battery of that capacity, by itself, weighs around 100g (or 0.22 lbs). An iPad 11 weighs around 470g.
Once you put a battery in, you also need to provide it with structural protection to prevent it from being damaged and causing fires, and you also have to add a chip to regulate charging/discharging, and given that iPad Pros can use chargers up to 18W, you need to provide some beefy internal wires and circuitry. You’re looking at at least 150g or more to implement your scheme (there’s a reason 7000mAH battery packs are not light, and those don’t have to handle fast charging, usually).
The existing Smart Keyboard folio for an 11” ipad weighs 297 grams. Not sure what the Magic Keyboard for iPad weighs, but I’m sure most of us are not interested in tacking on the weight of an extra half a folio to our devices when we can easily bring along an external battery pack when we need it.
What kind of smartphone ships with a 7000 mAh battery? And what 7000 mAh battery is "very light"?
I'm shocked that you have something negative to say about a new Apple product.
So is anyone gonna speculate on why this new iPad Pro has an A12Z, rather than an A13X? Is it a production issue related to Coronavirus?
There’s so little information available publicly about any of their chips, sadly. Hard to tell what the reasoning was, but I choose to believe it was so the engineering could focus on A14 variants for iPhone, iPad (end of year, with miniLED), and Mac.
Could be.
I mean, the A12* is plenty fast, but given the iPad Pro appears to be on an 18-month cycle, it does seem odd to use it again. Presumably, the next iPad Pro will go straight to the A15X?
Apple locks in these chip designs (and which products they go into) years ahead of time.
That suggests the plan in 2018 was "give the A12 to the iPhone, the A12X to the iPad Pro, and the A12Z to the 2020 iPad Pro". Maybe?
But it seems more likely to me that, in late 2019, they realized "iPhone 11 is selling as fast as we can make it, so let's not needlessly create a supply issue by putting an A13 variant on the next iPad Pro". Like, they may have left that as a plan B from the get go. But I don't think that plan A was "let's make an iPad Pro in 2020 with LIDAR and other first-class stuff, but then also give it a CPU from a year and a half ago" all along.
That's also possible. (It would explain why there are such major features in 13.4 — maybe those were really supposed to be shown at WWDC, but they realized they needed to focus on getting 13.0 polished.)
Would also explain why there may be a short interval to the next refresh with 5g and miniLED.
They don't make "Plan A vs. Plan B" decisions regarding main chips, 6 months before product release. More like 3 years before product release.
I'm not convinced we'll see that on an iPad Pro this fall. Maybe the next iPad Air.
(I'm still puzzled at the existence of both the Air and the… NoSuffix.)
But it wouldn't be unprecedented. The 3 was released just half a year before the 4.
They start designing new chips 3 years before.
They don't make the final decisions on what components make the cut for a product then.
They don't ramp up production until several months before release, so if they had both plans, it's absolutely possible to pick one or the other around November.
No, they “lock” the chip design nearly 3 years before release. I’ve had conversations directly with people at Apple responsible for this part of their business.