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Hands-On With Apple's New 10th-Generation iPad and M2 iPad Pro
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Who is running Apple? Gil Amelio? John Sculley?
The 9th gen is really lovely, especially at that price, like wow! The Logitech Combo Touch is a great, (relatively) inexpensive version of the Keyboard Folio with a great trackpad + function keys, too, if you’re ever in the market for one. Enjoy it! ❤️
The 10 is for people with access to a used pencil 1. I think Apple did a good job slotting this iPad in. I have 3 old iPad pros and 3 old pencils. I was dreading having to figure out how to get rid of the pencils one day. Updating to the cheap iPad 10 solves this problem.
What’s the important part?? You must be looking for something extremely specific here.
Not only because it was low cost for quite sometime prior. When the iPad was new it was a genuinely new and innovative device. But the general trend has long been that as technology advances and becomes more developed and refined it also generally gets cheaper even adjusted for inflation.
Early flatscreen televisions were truly expensive for what they were. Yet as they got better, and larger, they also got cheaper. Ditto the mainstream iPad.
For Apple to effect such a significant price jump for their entry level device doesn’t look good on them. It would have far better to have kept their price increase to maybe 10-15 percent.
I know how to sit on a fence. Hell, I can even sleep on a fence. The trick is to do it face down, with the post in your mouth.
Apple isn’t selling the original iPad for $499 today. The iPad 10th Gen is a far more capable, larger, better equipped tablet than the original iPad. So, it is essentially reflective of the tech pricing trend you correctly identified.
The iPad 10th gen is for the market of people who have a budget of $500 to spend on a modern, general purpose iPad. #fin
The new iPad is a total dud.
Still supporting only Pencil 1 makes totally clear that this is an outdated model to begin with. That they even degraded the Pencil loading experience by requiring another dongle adds insult to self inflicted injury.
This product is a product driven by inflation and supply chain issues.
Still supporting only Pencil 1 makes totally clear that this is an outdated model to begin with. That they even degraded the Pencil loading experience by requiring another dongle adds insult to self inflicted injury.
This product is a product driven by inflation and supply chain issues.
Had to get a new iPad for my wife ... waited for the iPad 10, but then after looking at that vs. the iPad Air (June, this year), we decided the air, even though $150 more, was the better buy. Everything is headed to "M" chips and "C" chargers, she needed 256 gig, and doesn't do anything fancy (never owned or used the pencil) and so we figured that the air would actually have a longer lifespan than the #10 iPad. She'll probably keep that as long as the grandkids' games and apps run on it. 
The 10th gen iPad is a good iPad. Only disappointment is that it supports 1st gen Pencil. Love the colours too especially the pink one.
The 9th Gen iPad is a vastly better device, in every respect, than the original iPad. And it sells for notably less than the original even without adjusting for inflation.
A $499 US 1st generation iPad in 2011 would be about $658 today. Thats a lot more than $329 for a 9th Gen iPad which is a significantly better device. That means the 9th Gen is effectively half the price of a 1st Gen iPad. it means you’re getter a helluva lot more for significantly less.
Yes, the 10th Gen is priced notably less than the original iPad and it’s a vastly better device in itself, but the perception is that the changes are not worth the significant price jump in today’s money. And most customer’s are going to judge it by their perception rather than doing an actual inflation adjusted comparison.
And, really, they’re not that wrong. Because the 10th Gen isn’t introducing anything new.
- All the other iPads already have USB-C.
- The 10.9 screen is from the iPad Air.
- The A14 chip has already been used in other devices.
- There is nothing new about the 1st Gen Apple Pencil.
This new iPad is an existing parts bin device. The slightly thicker chassis is the only thing new about the 10th Gen.
At best you could justify charging an extra $30-$50 for it—certainly not three to four times that much.
I like most things Apple, but they do get things wrong on occasion. And this is one of those times.
The 9th Gen iPad was the best bang-for-the-buck tablet on the market. It still is because the 10th Gen sure as hell isn’t.
This may be the first time I’ve read you saying “hot mess.”
Funny you mention this. Reminds me of Steve Jobs style
Jobs specifically mentioned when he came back to Apple he was confused by the overwhelming Mac offerings made by Apple.
I picked up my 11 inch M2 iPad Pro today with Magic Keyboard and Apple Pencil. After a few hours use, I must say I love it. It is supper responsive, great display, and great keyboard. I also even really like StageManager and have found it to be quite easy to use and it really increased my productivity on a project today. I own a 14 inch MacBook Pro and will likely now use it far less than I was anticipating.
But, someone looking for a low cost iPad likely doesn’t have a lot of money… thus looking for the low end. At that point, it doesn’t matter if it’s $50 more or $120 more. If they’ve only got enough money for $329 plus tax and shipping, then that’s what they’re getting. Anyone with enough money to buy ANY iPad in the lineup is already NOT looking at the 9th gen iPad.
Now, someone has to go the next steps and create the chart containing ALLL the different configurations of each of those, including each separate iteration and resulting price of of each RAM and storage configuration. I’m quite certain it would end up with a total of MORE than 22 discrete configurations.Funny you mention this. Reminds me of Steve Jobs style
Jobs specifically mentioned when he came back to Apple he was confused by the overwhelming Mac offerings made by Apple.
It’s amazing that folks were able to buy Macs with all those choices they had to make!
I think it’s a bit of a cheek even referring to this as the ‘low cost iPad’ to be honest. It’s not a low cost iPad with a huge price increase like that. It’s £500 starting price here and the only low cost iPad is last years 9th gen which now has a much higher demand since this strange overpriced, poor spec’d 10 came out.
While the 9 is for people who use the iPad solely because of its convenient 3.5mm audio out jack
When the iPad first released in 2010, there were no other models. No iPad Mini, Air, Pro, just... iPad. Beyond storage and 3G configurations there was no extra feature differentiation between the models, making price comparisons much more straightforward.
Now with the entire iPad family, there are vast differences in feature sets between the models and so the potential buyer has to juggle price along with features, which is where the concept of a "budget" or "low-cost" iPad comes from.
I think the general gripe people have with the new 10.9" base model iPad is that the price is now a lot closer to the other models like the Air yet the features haven't quite fully caught up to justify the price change. The previous generation had clearly lower specs than the next tier which is the iPad Air/Mini but that was also clearly reflected in the much lower price.
I have the 2018 or 2019 big Pro and I really want hover for illustrating. But I just know that next year there will be some amazing new iPad Pro that will make me regret upgrading now, like it'll have real HDR or Apple Pencil 3 or something like that.