Thats harsh, the iPad Air M2 is good bang for buck, but your spot on for the other 2 you mentioned.Tim strikes again with useless products strictly for margins such as:
AirPods 4 without ANC
iPad Air
M3 MacBook Pro 14" 8 GB RAM
Thats harsh, the iPad Air M2 is good bang for buck, but your spot on for the other 2 you mentioned.Tim strikes again with useless products strictly for margins such as:
AirPods 4 without ANC
iPad Air
M3 MacBook Pro 14" 8 GB RAM
except for the M4 ipad Pro. The Oled screen is really really nice.Boring year in terms of hardware updates.
I think the iPad Air only exists to upsell you on the Pros. The M4 changed things as the price increased to $1K. But for years the Air really served no meaningful purpose in the lineup.Thats harsh, the iPad Air M2 is good bang for buck, but your spot on for the other 2 you mentioned.
Agreed.I would think they would at least update it to the minimum specs required to run Apple Intelligence.
I can see them waiting on launching an iPad a17, until they have scaled up production of the a17 - and probably more importantly the major holidays are over (including Chinese new year), so demand for the iPhone 16 smooths out.That would be shocking. I would expect Apple wants to implement some AI features on the new iPad, which may be why they would delay the iPad and release it with an A17, which is still in production.
Why not go one further and have just “iPad”, where:So,
Current name → New name (sizes)
iPad Pro → iPad Pro (11"/13")
iPad Air → iPad (11"/13")
iPad & iPad Mini → iPad SE (8"/11")
That actually makes good sense.
Move the iPad SE to a different update cycle like the iPhone SE (not a big change for the mini since it doesn't get updated that regularly anyway), and get rid of the Air moniker given that the iPad Pros weigh less.
Totally agree with you here.It's abandoning the iPad at this point. No update in more than two years... That's never been seen since 2017..
350$ is outrageously expensive for an A14 chip in 2024... even for a base model. I won't have it unless they knock at least a hundred off..
I need to upgrade mine, I'm not sure I want a mini, and I won't fork out 600$ for an Air.
I'm not sold to Apple Intelligence but will definitely not buy something now that won't be able to support it.
Seems to be a huge gap in the lineup at the moment...
A minor upgrade similar to the Mini would have been welcome. And if Mini was indeed a pocket sized version of the Air, they should have put an M2 in it and kept the A17 Pro for this base iPad 11th.... That would have made much more sense.
That's actually a good point. It may launch along with a new SE in the spring with Apple's 5G modemAnd no doubt they probably want to put their own modem in the regular iPad too.
The A17 is last year chip. It's in the leftover parts bin at this point.I can see them waiting on launching an iPad a17, until they have scaled up production of the a17 - and probably more importantly the major holidays are over (including Chinese new year), so demand for the iPhone 16 smooths out.
And no doubt they probably want to put their own modem in the regular iPad too.
Perhaps because there's nothing that's groundbreaking with the products. Those products typically receive incremental updates and that's what happens when you offer products to every type of buyer. So now the unpredictability is the best selling point.Apple’s iPad release schedule is so erratic and unpredictable, I don’t understand the reasoning behind it.
Actually for the base model it's been nicely consistent for the past 7 years. Yearly update schedule, occasionally 18 months. Either in March with the Pro releases or Sept/Oct with or just after the iPhonesApple’s iPad release schedule is so erratic and unpredictable, I don’t understand the reasoning behind it. Why not just update them all at one event? Mini, entry-level, Pro, Air, etc….Amazon updated all their Kindles yesterday, no big deal. That’s what normal companies do but Apple isn’t normal company. The iPad product line needs a massive overhaul, too. Too many pointless differentiations between them.
Same as the year before this and the year before that and the year before that, etc.Boring year in terms of hardware updates.
Im really intrigued by these suggestions which happen a lot.Same as the year before this and the year before that and the year before that, etc.
We need a new visionary at Apple!
Look and compare what others are doing with their tablets, ecosystems, hardware specifications and come to the conclusion that apple is way behind on every front.Im really intrigued by these suggestions which happen a lot.
What, do you think, should be done with the iPad or the iPhone?
They reached peak design, they are heading slowly to lighter, thinner, faster.... better cameras, faster processors, longer batteries, thinner designs.... but it's still recognisably an iPad and will continue to be so for a fair while longer.
But what next? What do we realistically expect to change year on year? The times of rapid change and development for these devices is over.
All you can expect is tweaks here and there. Do you want a triangular shaped iPad?
Sure, at some point in the future tech will leap forward again and we will get folding/rolling/virtual displays perhaps.
.... but to suggest people at Apple arent visionaries because in 2024 you dont have your sci fi iPad and iPhone is just a touch unrealistic.
Tim Cook is really sucking the life and any enjoyment out of Apple fans. Disappointment after disappointment.
I miss the hype and energy Steve brought to releases, software and hardware.
You can still implement that even with incremental updates.
But recently, even us Apple fanboys are having a hard time being excited anymore.
I think the iPad Air only exists to upsell you on the Pros. The M4 changed things as the price increased to $1K. But for years the Air really served no meaningful purpose in the lineup.
I must have missed Samsung's Triangular shaped tablet, or their ground breaking holographic display then.Look and compare what others are doing with their tablets, ecosystems, hardware specifications and come to the conclusion that apple is way behind on every front.
I find it very intriguing that you can come up with that question to me 😂
Well, that certainly didn't work for me. I had the option to buy either the new M2 Air or the M4 Pro. I went with the M2 Air, it was an easy choice.I think the iPad Air only exists to upsell you on the Pros.