Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

All iPads iPad Air 2 - The dullest iPad Launch ever?

DarthTater said:
I may be wrong (and it wouldn't surprise me), but Apple is probably wary of cannibalizing notebook sales with tablets. So they'll only go so far with iPads. A lot of what we ask for (split screen, multitasking, etc.) starts to impinge on notebook territory.

I could be totally full of hot air, though. And it wouldn't be the first time. But I expect that whatever gets announced will probably be incremental - A8/M8, fingerprints, maybe resolution.
Click to expand...

Laptops and desktops are trucks and we all don't need to be driving trucks around. :)
 
Piggie said:
Yes yes. Totally agree with you.
The way I see it is this............

Apple had success with the iPhone, and they developed to UI for the iPhone, and after a few years/revisions they tweaked and improved the UI for the iPhone and it's 4" display.

They then took a risk and made a tablet, with a VASTLY larger screen, but of course, as it was brand new, and at the time it could have died at birth, and been a total and utter flop, they did not want to risk vast time and money on a whole new User Interface.

Also, at the time, they knew people knew the simplistic UI designed for a 3.5" to 4" screen size. Simple icons on a backdrop.
Apple knew it would be safe and simple to show a new device with the same UI so people would instantly feel at home.

This was a sensible move at the time. They pretty much just magnified an iPhone4 into an 10" version and called it a tablet.

It's a bit funny that, despite them ONLY doing this, they then told developers they did not want them to just magnify their iPhone apps for a 10" screen. which I feel is funny as that's pretty much all Apple did for the iPad's User Interface.

Anyway, that was year ago, the iPad sold well, and all is history and yay, a new product category was established, which is great.

What I think is sad, and such a shame is that Apple have since almost totally neglected the iPads user interface, thinking that Apple users would not be able to handle anything more advanced.

I think Apple users deserve more credit, and could do a LOT more with the iPad if Apple made the device Grow Up.

It's basically still just a large iPhone with a nicer screen and poorer camera and that makes me sad, knowing what such a device COULD be.

Let's be honest with ourselves.
Starting from a blank sheet of paper, knowing nothing. If someone said to a company, even saying it to Apple.

Hey Apple, we have a screen of 10" in size.
The screen has an amazing 2048x1536 resolution.

Design a productive, useful and up to date user interface for 2015 can you please.
I don't believe they would say, well we will have a background picture for some wallpaper and we will put some BIG icons, spaced apart over the screen and a row of 5 often used ones at the bottom, and when you press one it opens the program and totally fills the screen.

Job Done.

As I say, sure, it was fine for iPad1 and understandable to copy the phone as it was playing it safe.

But come on, by now. 5? years later and onto iPad6 for 2015, this is all you can offer?

I always hope they will see what potential is has as a device and one day see it as more than just a really big phone.

One day, One day......
Click to expand...

Great write up...unfortunately Apple's marketing strategy is so unique and powerful, the general public will buy what ever product Apple ships, no matter how simplistic and featureless it is. People don't miss what they never thought they could have. Apple sells this whole 'experience' which makes the other features meaningless.
 
new design - thinner and even lighter
new screen - retina HD - same resolution, or 3x 1024x768 render, downscale to a 2k screen ala iphone 6 plus' approach to 1080p.
A8X with awesome graphics
touch ID
better camera, better mic
better connectivity.

i see this like the iPad 4 upgrade. but even better.
 
teknikal90 said:
new design - thinner and even lighter
new screen - retina HD - same resolution, or 3x 1024x768 render, downscale to a 2k screen ala iphone 6 plus' approach to 1080p.
A8X with awesome graphics
touch ID
better camera, better mic
better connectivity.

i see this like the iPad 4 upgrade. but even better.
Click to expand...

If they did change the resolution, I'd rather see doubled 1280x960 than anything else, and I think it would make the most sense. It would put UI elements at around the same scale as on the iPad mini, while giving more real estate and it wouldn't look too terrible upscaling 1024x768 doubled apps either, just adding 25% more pixels to each dimension which should look relatively decent. A 2560x1920 display is also the exact same width as 1440p (QHD) displays, so widescreen 720p video would look beautiful with perfect pixel doubling and 1080p video would be scaled up 33%. It's a resolution that makes a ton of sense.

You'd go from the current 264 DPI to 330 DPI, just above the iPad mini's 324 DPI and iPhone 4-6 at 326 DPI.

While resolution changes aren't to be counted on, I definitely expect them to go to a bonded panel, which will reduce thickness, make the screen seem closer to the surface and should help with reflections. I'd also expect them to make the contrast ratio improvements they made with the "Retina HD" displays in the new phones. Both of these should combine to make the screen look significantly better, just like the iPhone 6 screen over the 5/5S screen even without increasing DPI.
 
Last edited:
Piggie said:
It's time I got a new Tablet.

iPad Air 2, or perhaps some other nice model from elsewhere.

Naturally I'll wait now as things are so close, but you know what...... I'm really expecting this year's iPad revamp is going to be the dullest ever in iPad history.

No leaked parts, new case designs etc. I'm expecting the exact same case.

I'm not expecting any new size options.

All I can think of is:

25% ish faster in some things due to A8 CPU/GPU speed tweak.
Touch iD
Perhaps if we are lucky a little better camera, though probably not even up to last years iPhone quality.
Perhaps some different memory option size.

And, to be honest, that's it.

Lucky to stretch that out to more than 5 mins and move onto something else they wish to show off

Is there any chance I'm wrong, and I'm going to be surprised?
Click to expand...

Yeah talk about anticlimactic..... No need to think about this model.
 
The iPad Air 2 launch was so dull that I never even noticed it happening.
 
If Apple introduces nothing but the iPad 2 Air, the event will be considered a total waste of time by the Apple faithful.

"It's prettier, shinier, and thinnier. Run out and buy one or two for the holidays."
-- Tim Cook introducing iPad Air 2 (maybe).
 
DocMultimedia said:
If Apple introduces nothing but the iPad 2 Air, the event will be considered a total waste of time by the Apple faithful.

"It's prettier, shinier, and thinnier. Run out and buy one or two for the holidays."
-- Tim Cook introducing iPad Air 2 (maybe).
Click to expand...

Probably going to introduce an iPad Pro, new Mac Mini, and iPad Air 2. My guess is no new mini retina.
 
DocMultimedia said:
If Apple introduces nothing but the iPad 2 Air, the event will be considered a total waste of time by the Apple faithful.

"It's prettier, shinier, and thinnier. Run out and buy one or two for the holidays."
-- Tim Cook introducing iPad Air 2 (maybe).
Click to expand...

Don't forget that he'll use the "amazing" about twenty times during the description too. :D
 
Piggie said:
Yes yes. Totally agree with you.
The way I see it is this............

Apple

Hey Apple, we have a screen of 10" in size.
The screen has an amazing 2048x1536 resolution.

Design a productive, useful and up to date user interface for 2015 can you please.
I don't believe they would say, well we will have a background picture for some wallpaper and we will put some BIG icons, spaced apart over the screen and a row of 5 often used ones at the bottom, and when you press one it opens the program and totally fills the screen.

Job Done.

As I say, sure, it was fine for iPad1 and understandable to copy the phone as it was playing it safe.

But come on, by now. 5? years later and onto iPad6 for 2015, this is all you can offer?

I always hope they will see what potential is has as a device and one day see it as more than just a really big phone.

One day, One day......
Click to expand...


Just boot up your Amiga 500 if you want a modern day OS.
 
Charliebird said:
I have a Surface Pro 3 and I almost never use it in portrait mode but it's a much bigger tablet. I know it's a personal preference thing but IMAO I think it was a big mistake for the PC industry adopting 16:9.
Click to expand...

what the hell is a surface pro 3?
 
Piggie said:
It's time I got a new Tablet.

iPad Air 2, or perhaps some other nice model from elsewhere.

Naturally I'll wait now as things are so close, but you know what...... I'm really expecting this year's iPad revamp is going to be the dullest ever in iPad history.

No leaked parts, new case designs etc. I'm expecting the exact same case.

I'm not expecting any new size options.

All I can think of is:

25% ish faster in some things due to A8 CPU/GPU speed tweak.
Touch iD
Perhaps if we are lucky a little better camera, though probably not even up to last years iPhone quality.
Perhaps some different memory option size.

And, to be honest, that's it.

Lucky to stretch that out to more than 5 mins and move onto something else they wish to show off

Is there any chance I'm wrong, and I'm going to be surprised?
Click to expand...

You called it Piggie. Though I wish you'd have been wrong. :(
 
Batavian said:
You called it Piggie. Though I wish you'd have been wrong. :(
Click to expand...

Yup i pretty nailed it with my prediction!

The only thing I did not expect was thinner, as people were complaining it was too thin and creaking already I expected the case would remain for another year.
 
It's hilarious how people always expect some revolutionary invention from :apple: every year.
 
iPad Air 2 - The dullest iPad Launch ever?

Except you didn't nail it. They quoted 40% CPU 250% (2.5x) GPU.

It's 6.1 mm thin, thinner than iphone 6.

Totally new display tech.

You were almost completely wrong except for TouchID. Nice job.
 
Dullest? Really? what about Ipad 4 which was the smallest update of any Ipads?

----------
teknikal90 said:
new design - thinner and even lighter
new screen - retina HD - same resolution, or 3x 1024x768 render, downscale to a 2k screen ala iphone 6 plus' approach to 1080p.
A8X with awesome graphics
touch ID
better camera, better mic
better connectivity.

i see this like the iPad 4 upgrade. but even better.
Click to expand...

More Ipad 2 > Ipad 3

Ipad 4 bought little new.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back