I'm actually interested in the Surface 3. Crazy specs, crazy price.
Me too. After owned three iPad this time I really want a USB connection and a more productive tablet.
I'm actually interested in the Surface 3. Crazy specs, crazy price.
I don't want to tell you how to spend your money, but I definitely have to recommend the Air 2. The hardware is the most amazing I've seen out of Apple, thin thinness and lightness seriously makes a difference, and so does the RAM. I'd say just go all in, you'll love it.
Thanks for reinforcing that I made the right decision. I have a silver 64GB one coming here this week and I am super excited to give it a whirl after all the positive things I have read here.
Me too. After owned three iPad this time I really want a USB connection and a more productive tablet.
I love iPad Air 2 and see no reason why I would upgrade. But then again, it depends on what app developers start coming up with as well.
Thanks for reinforcing that I made the right decision. I have a silver 64GB one coming here this week and I am super excited to give it a whirl after all the positive things I have read here.
That's what's regularly said about various Apple products. And so far Apple has a good history of proving those statements wrong again and againI don't see how they can improve on the hardware, it's already as thin as it can be.
Do any of you who are boasting about the air 2 have the screen distortion problem that's posted about pretty prominently here?
Do any of you who are boasting about the air 2 have the screen distortion problem that's posted about pretty prominently here?
What can they really do though? The iPad is a mature, dare I say complete product as it is now. That's fine but it does affect sales since most of us are content to keep our ipads for many generations before upgrading.
What I don't want is for them to mess with the foundations of the device too much. It's a perfect tablet experience, IMO. If they try to make it too much like a laptop or whatever then you lose some of what makes it a great tablet.
It's a tough spot though.... As you said, they have to keep it fresh but they also have to be careful not to go overboard. The next 2-3 years will be interesting for the iPad as other products like the surface also mature and get better.
The iPad's hardware is mature, the software is a joke.
No, I don't want OS X or features that make the iPad a laptop. What I want is iOS to be optimized for the iPad.
The Music app? Give use album icon view vs that stupid list.
The App switcher? Shows the same info as on a 3.5 screen. Why not show 4 thumbnails per page.
Split screen or pop over menu? I'd like to be able to send an iMessage without freezing the video.
Don't forget 9 apps per page in folders
The iPad's hardware is mature, the software is a joke.
No, I don't want OS X or features that make the iPad a laptop. What I want is iOS to be optimized for the iPad.
The Music app? Give use album icon view vs that stupid list.
The App switcher? Shows the same info as on a 3.5 screen. Why not show 4 thumbnails per page.
Split screen or pop over menu? I'd like to be able to send an iMessage without freezing the video.
Your thoughts?
I completely agree. The iPad started out as a big iPod Touch. Then, slowly with iOS 5 and iOS 6 the iPad began to grow into its own device. It had more apps in the multitasking bar, it had more controls if you swiped to the right, it had better tab management, and it had the icons in the music app as well as more icons per folder page.
Then iOS 7 dropped and ripped all that way and gave iPad users a blown up phone experience. I was sympathetic because that was a big change and obviously the iPhone took precedence. I though surely iOS 8 would be for iPad, but nope. The only app where real progress was made was in Safari (sidebar and tab view), but they crippled it on my iPad 3 with terrible performance.
As it stands right now the iPad is just a big iPod Touch with a few exclusive (and great) apps. That's all it will take to make a successful product, but not a record breaking one. If the iPad continues like it is it will decline until it hits a plateau with most upgrades every 3/4 years. There really is nothing driving sales.
With the new MacBook, there will be even more pressure on the iPad as the rMB price fall. I'm also not sold on the iPad Pro because Apple just put all the feature people are claiming for in a 12/13" package and leave all the 9.7" device users with a thinner device with "All day battery life" of 8 hours.
The Ipad IOS software right now is TOO simple.
I don't know, buy an ipad air 2 in the next days or wait for the ipad air 3.
is the ipad air to thin? or have stability problems? need help buy or not to buy![]()
I completely agree. The iPad is nice and can be very useful and productive for certain asks, but there are so much potential missed.
I remember the Air 1 review (which your quite references) mentioned that. There was so much power in a sleek body, and little amazing software to take advantage it.
This is why I'm considering a rMB over updating my iPad 3 to the Air 3.
The iPad doesn't do much more than what my iPad 2 did when I bought it... Thats why I don't need to update. The iPad Air 2 just does the same things as my iPad 2 only faster.
My $99 Windows tablet is more productive than my iPad 2. It can propeller manage files + do multitasking.
The iPad doesn't do much more than what my iPad 2 did when I bought it... Thats why I don't need to update. The iPad Air 2 just does the same things as my iPad 2 only faster.
My $99 Windows tablet is more productive than my iPad 2. It can propeller manage files + do multitasking.
iPad Air 3 May be the next underpowered iPad. iPad 1 was gimped by lack of RAM. iPad 2 is the iPad that will not die. iPad 3 was gimped by lack of CPU and GPU power for the retina screen. iPad 4 is still doing pretty well. iPad Air (and mini 2/3) are HORRIBLY gimped by lack of RAM and lack of CPU and GPU power. The mediocracy of iOS 8 May be what's crippling them though. iPad Air 2 is very, very powerful, has 2GB of RAM when the iPhones that came out with it have half the RAM still. Much more powerful than those devices as well, with a 1.5 GHz triple core CPU. iPad Air 3 May see only a marginal spec increase with like a doubled screen resolution, or something. That would continue Apples streak of only making every other iPad worthwhile.