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iPad Mini With Slimmer Bezels and No Home Button Coming Later This Year
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I felt the same way when I had the mini 5. The rumored 8.5" size will be noticeably larger.
Actually the only thing that will be fading away is your comment, which is worthless btw.
No the under-display Touch ID is the future for Apple in that lower price point for devices like the iphone and ipad.
It's likely for the iPhone and unlikely for the iPad. Apple isn't going to engineer that kind of a Touch ID system and make THAT big of a deal over it only to use it in one product.
iPad mini?? Sure, that may be true in your world but it isn’t necessarily true in others’ worlds. As another poster astutely stated, the iPad mini fits perfectly into my particular work flow. The larger Pro(and downward) screens don’t.
While I disagree that it isn’t good at anything, I take your point that iPad mini, so far, isn’t an inspired device especially that it comes from a company that frequently does inspired devices.
agreed (though for me the pencil isn’t a need). I’ve had my mini 4 for 4+ years. It’s my go to for chill time reading and videos as well as light work. it’s the light-small device I take on the go when I need a bit more screen than my IP11. A new mini will be a buy for me — when it becomes available through the Apple refurb store 😀.
while it may seem (and often is) that bigger version of a similar device must be more expensive, this isn’t a certainty. Manufacturing can be a strange beast (I worked at Apple’s factory in California wayyyyy long time ago). When you sell more of X, you generate enough to tool extra mfg lines, increase efficiency, reduce parts cost through greater bulk discount buying.
Additionally, what something is sold for is usually based only on what people will pay for it. See Bitcoin for the purest form of this reality.
Buy the next to latest version after trade in or secondary market sale — or go refurbished. Otherwise, if you’re waiting on the low cost product range to be filled by Apple it’s gonna be a loooong wait (seriously, the day Apple starts trying to fill the low cost segment of the market? They might as well become one of the many that sells vacuum cleaners, electric toothbrushes and coffee makers).Apple does like fat margins. Just make it on someone else’s dime. I like low prices.
My general point was I don't want to be paying more for a new mini than I did the min5.
I think it's pretty great. There's an iPad there for everyone.
(I would like a "Pro mini". And I guess others might like a 13-inch Air. But that's about it.)
It's a pity that Apple don't allow streaming gaming services on iOS, because that would make the rumoured new iPad mini a killer gaming device (with a gamepad of course). I'm looking forward to see it in person. I had the first mini and loved it at that time. The problem is that it was released already with outdated hardware (iPad 2, 512M ram) and finally decided to update it to a bigger one. Mi 2017 pro is starting to age so maybe I do the jump back to the mini unless is crazily priced.
It will be also interesting to see how many of them they will sell after the poor sales of the mini version of the iPhone.
It will be also interesting to see how many of them they will sell after the poor sales of the mini version of the iPhone.
Not even accounting for the global skyrocketing inflation? Basic products and services have gone up quite a bit, even the US minimum wage has increased significantly in most states (compared to a couple years ago). I'd wager that inflation has raised the prices of at least some computer parts.
With every year, a single dollar buys you less and less. There may even come a time when the joke meme coin Doge will outvalue the US $1 dollar.