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Internal Foxconn Sketch Said to Be of Apple's 'iPad Pro' Surfaces

Renzatic said:
Funny, considering writers were among the first to use the iPad as a productivity device. Pop it up in portrait and slap a keyboard in front of it, and you've got the makings of an excellent portable document machine.

Hell, it's even fairly good at banging out HTML if you've got the right app.
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Yes I'm sure an iPad with a keyboard is more powerful than an MacBook Air... (ironic mode)... I would like to see how many iPad they would sell if the price were the same as a macbook Air, "more powerful for pro purposes and writing my ass"

There are things an iPad is better at, but writing and office usage are not one of them
 
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Max(IT) said:
Not even close to that.
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Tell that to Pages, Numbers, hardware compatibility, cloud services, enterprise support, engineering software... ... ...

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nando87 said:
Tell that to Pages, Numbers, hardware compatibility, cloud services, enterprise support, engineering software... ... ...

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Agree about Office.
But we were speaking about operative systems.
Cloud services? Apple has nothing to learn from Microsoft.
Hardware compatibility? Are you being serious? Nothing compares to Apple integration....
 
BvizioN said:
Web browsing on larger screen
Watching video on larger screen
Playing games on larger screen
eMailing on larger screen.... and so on??
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Web browsing... Great, we can see more ads! Once the width is comparable to an 7-8" column of text, the advantages are limited. Same goes for email.

Video/Games... Big is beautiful for video, but the interface challenges on games seems like a challenge.

Point remains: why is it worth more money? It needs to do something another device cannot do effectively, not just marginally better.
 
Max(IT) said:
Agree about Office.
But we were speaking about operative systems.
Cloud services? Apple has nothing to learn from Microsoft.
Hardware compatibility? Are you being serious? Nothing compares to Apple integration....
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I think Apple has a lot to learn from Dropbox, Google, and Microsoft about cloud services.
 
Poisonivy326 said:
I think Apple has a lot to learn from Dropbox, Google, and Microsoft about cloud services.
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Dropbox? A single, expensive storage service......

Google ? Yes, they are the best on the market on that, but their price is too high: you are giving them all of your personal data to share (read: sell) with others companies.

Microsoft? Not at all.... I'm a Windows user, and One Drive is a nightmare comparing to iCloud....

ITunes, iTunes match, iCloud, iCloud drive, backups..... Apple has a lot of terrific good cloud services.
 
Max(IT) said:
Agree about Office.
But we were speaking about operative systems.
Cloud services? Apple has nothing to learn from Microsoft.
Hardware compatibility? Are you being serious? Nothing compares to Apple integration....
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Sure, that's why my Huawei LTE modem has been resting since Yosemite was released. Or I just can type a whole bunch of commands using the Terminal, "it just works", huh?
 
nando87 said:
Sure, that's why my Huawei LTE modem has been resting since Yosemite was released. Or I just can type a whole bunch of commands using the Terminal, "it just works", huh?
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Last time I checked, Huawei modem are not produced not directly supported by Apple.
 
x0vash0x said:
For example, many iOS whiteboard apps allow for the recording of a lecture, which as a teacher is extremely valuable as I can upload the video so students can review the material later.
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You absolutely can record audio and video in OneNote.
 
Wouldn't this be the iPad Air 2 Plus?

Or would the iPad Air Plus 2 come out when the iPad Air 3 comes out?

Maybe the previous-gen iPad Air will be rebranded as the iPad Mini Plus....
 
BRING IT ON BABY!!!

Soon I will have my first iPad (mini 2) then next year I will buy this iPad Pro maybe even this Christmas if discounts are offered at retail stores.
 
I'd like Apple to do more with a 12"+ screen than just add an extra row of icons and split screen multitasking. If Apple could do something with allowing third party companies to make stylus pens work like Samsung's Note serious that would be sweet.
 
Max(IT) said:
Agree about Office.
But we were speaking about operative systems.
Cloud services? Apple has nothing to learn from Microsoft.
Hardware compatibility? Are you being serious? Nothing compares to Apple integration....
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OneDrive beats out iCloud every day of the week in terms of functionality and what you get. Go ahead and tell me how I can get unlimited storage for 5 people for less than 10$ a month using iCloud. Not to mention I can actually upload crap on my iPhone to ObeDrive using data while iCloud just straight up refuses. I have unlimited data, but still nothing.

Compatibility and integration aren't the same thing. Integration between Apple things is great, but compatibility with hardware isn't something Apple is good at. Compatibility with hardware means it works with mire types, like the millions of combinations of PC parts, routers, modems, and so forth that Windows is expected to do with ease.
 
TC03 said:
Honest question: what good does a bigger screen do? Who thinks 9.7" is too small?
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It's basically the same benefits as having a bigger screen for the Mac/PC. More screen real estate means a larger canvas for apps. It'll be a boon for anyone doing photo editing, video editing, music apps and even basic productivity apps like iWork.

This is big. It's like when the Mac went from a 9" display to a 13" display. The iPad is growing up fast... with mobile hardware and iOS growing by leaps and bounds every year, it's only a matter of time before iPads permanently replace the Mac/PC for many productivity tasks.
 
MisakixMikasa said:
How much added utilities could 12 inch iPad brings? Withoit optimizing for larger screen. It just an oversized iPad. Apple need to do more than just blowing up iOS to fit the 12 inch screen. It need adeed widgets, mutli-windows mode, mutli-users suuport etc.
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I agree. I think Apple will optimize iOS for the larger screen.
 
Max(IT) said:
Then buy a surface 3.
I don't think Apple had nothing to learn or copy from Microsoft, with all due respect.
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Such ignorance. There is so much Apple could add to the iPad from the surface, multi tasking, pen support, kick stand, keyboard just for starters.


iOS on the iPad is a joke, if not for third party apps taking advantage of the 9.7" screen the iPad would be nothing but a blown up iPod Touch if apple were left alone
 
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nando87 said:
Yes I'm sure an iPad with a keyboard is more powerful than an MacBook Air... (ironic mode)... I would like to see how many iPad they would sell if the price were the same as a macbook Air, "more powerful for pro purposes and writing my ass"

There are things an iPad is better at, but writing and office usage are not one of them
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But you don't need pure processing power and a ton of ram to write, and office applications work surprisingly well. In comparison to the MBA, an iPad pared with a keyboard has the advantage of portrait orientation, and a higher resolution screen. It's not half bad.
 
xnu said:
We can't even get a real desktop computer out of Apple, OS X with 2gb of ram?

I can see a lot of uses for a huge tablet, I like that Apple isn't as rigid with one size fits all.
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Yes, only 2GB of ram, we ar talking Apple here:).

Apple has been disappointing plenty of consumers for many years with their low storage and memory configurations.

By now there should be an iPhone and iPad with 256GB storage and 4 GB ram.

They took forever to come out with the 128GB iPhone etc.

While some assume they are just greedy and want to charge more for less, I think it is probably a yield and availability issue.

Any new size chip takes a while to have its bugs worked out and yield enough in mass production to drop in price.

So, while we can assume that Apple doesn't see much of a price difference between 32GB and 64 GB etc.etc. difference) it is a matter of the higher GB chips dropping into their calculatory price range.
 
Am I the only one who doesn't get excited for these spec-bumped iPad rumors? Yeah it may be bigger, blah blah. I still have my iPad 2 running iOS 7. Figure I'll upgrade in a year or so.

What may be more exciting is if Apple were to release a more powerful and revolutionary tablet that had more desktop app functionality. (Think of a Surface Pro 3-like tablet but also acts as a major stylus like a Cintiq 24HD).

That would be sick.

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JPLC said:
An iPad Pro brings a new iOS/OS right? Cant wait!
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No. iPhone drives the boat, chief.
 
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