iPad Air Could Finally Be Redesigned Next Year

[bluecoast]

Only need 10 secs.
17e - budget entry
17 - middle ground
Air - thinness and style
Pro - everything

But then try and explain to someone why the air has worse specs than the regular 17 ie only one camera and speaker and meh battery life.

And I’m speaking as someone who will almost certainly get the air if the above are fixed.

Also:

The MacBook Air is the ‘default’ laptop and the iPhone Air is … not.

Apple is better at naming its products than most in tech (Sony!) but it still misuses its terms across different products (don’t get me started on their misuse of ‘pro’).

 

[The-Real-Deal82]

I have a 2020 iPad Air that has been great and I am just starting to notice the battery is not as good as it once was. What has shocked me is the £200 price increase on the Air range since I bought mine. Not sure I will be paying £749 for a new iPad next time around tbh, and will be looking at the entry version. I only browse the internet and watch Netflix on it anyway, but the lightweight aspect of the device is what appealed to me, no idea how the standard compares.

 

[drunkaviator]

I have never owned an iPad, because it's never quite been allowed (by Apple) to have its own unique identity.

It's always been essentially, a big iPhone with 'iOS+' running on it.

Whereas the iPhone and the Mac are 'must haves', the iPad (all models) has always been a 'nice to have'.

Maybe under JT, the iPad - and iPadOS - will finally turn it into the fully fledged modular computer that it deserves to be.

100% agree with you. I use mine mostly as a reader, a second screen, travel so I don't have to risk my expensive Macbook, and to control my smart telescope, but I don't need it. I saw the latest Samsung flagship on sale for £450 a while ago, with the exact same screen specs as the pro (double stacked OLED), and honestly thought that would do a good enough job.

 

[Yebubbleman]

People easily forget what a tremendous value the iPad Air running an M-Series chip is, that is $450 less than the iPad Pro. In this economy, the iPad Air ain't going anywhere.

Who buying an iPad Air NEEDS an M-Series chip? Who is going to say "nah, the base iPad doesn't have enough for me, but the iPad Pro is too much."? I'd reckon not as many as would vocally oppose this comment on these forums.