I only bought one because I wanted an Apple Pencil (amazing bit of kit!). I doubt I'll get a new one now for another 5 years, my last iPad was a 2nd generation one after all.
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
iPad Pro Accounted for Less Than One-Third of Apple's Tablet Sales Last Quarter
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
This article is about the iPad Pro marketshare, not the price of "computers". If you knew your history, you'd realize that Macs back in the 80's also cost several thousand dollars... a Mac SE would be about $1500 or more. Convert that to today's financial rates and that was one very expensive computer! Today's computers are FAR more powerful and advanced. Would we all love all Macs to be sub-$2k? Yes. Is that realistic? No.
Wow, I never even considered the possibility that the "pro" model wouldn't include this. Certainly a disappointment.
I waited for a $150 sale at Best Buy before I bought my 9.7" iPad Pro, it's way overpriced
I use just a front cover on my Air 2. With a Pro I would need a full case making it heavier and thicker - and the extra mass would be useless plastic of the cover. If they had made it 1mm thicker there would be no need for case and they could've used the extra space for a bigger battery.
I like my ipp 12.9. It's worth it, especially if you're taking advantage of pencil.
The Mac SE had a 2 898 $ launch price, so yes they were indeed expensive! I couldn't afford a color Mac until the late 90s.
Well, they actually last pretty long if you don't physically break them or update iOS to many times.. 
And I think the "PRO" still have to show some software support worthy of the title and the ≈$1500 price tag you end up with after adding the necessities..
And I think the "PRO" still have to show some software support worthy of the title and the ≈$1500 price tag you end up with after adding the necessities..
Apple markets the iPad Pro as a computer. The price of this device is almost certainly the reason the sales numbers lag behind the cheaper models.
What I posted was relevant. What you posted wasnt.
I use mine everyday, i dont do notebooks anymore this is the best device apple has made, it just needs force touch and the other new suff... The screen could be brighter, and i wish that app developers update more apps for the pro.. more games...
I have an iPad pro 9.7. I like it for what it is and enjoy using the stylus almost daily for a multitude of uses. I am not an illustrator, but my style is best suited to freely drawing ideas, notes, and outlines. For those uses the iPad Pro is helpful for me. But after that, I struggle to see what the iPad does over the iPhone, other than a larger screen. The iPad is lacking something, and the iPad pro has the one extra feature that, in my opinion, should be available across the range of Apple products. Also, my iPhone 7 is more powerful than my iPad Pro 9.7 that I bought a few months before the 7's release. How does a consumer make sense of these kinds of things?
Some definitions of an Oxymoron in two consecutive words:
Pretty ugly
Act naturally
Found missing
Advanced BASIC
Same difference
Alone together
Silent scream
Soft rock
Military intelligence
New classic
Clearly misunderstood
Terribly pleased
Tight slacks
Rap music
Exact estimate
And of course
IPad Pro
Pretty ugly
Act naturally
Found missing
Advanced BASIC
Same difference
Alone together
Silent scream
Soft rock
Military intelligence
New classic
Clearly misunderstood
Terribly pleased
Tight slacks
Rap music
Exact estimate
And of course
IPad Pro
Last edited:
My wife & I bought 12.9s last month for the awesome screen. It's worth it.
Market saturation. Not many people are upgrading; the iPad they already own still works great.
I remain very nervous about an Apple that starts to choose selling a few more expensive units relative to more competitively priced products. Apple does not want to be Walmart, but last time they tried to be the Tiffany's of computers they cratered. Somewhere in between has been working great.
When the 9.7 (on near that size) Pro comes out, I'm buying it, and it should last me 3-6 years.
I think the phone is going to go there as well, with the AT&T NEXT program using a 30 month payment plan. I was surprised that Apple didn't pressure them to offer a 24 month plan as well.
It smacks of a car deal, where the dealership rolls the previous car value (which they always seem to make it below KBB value) into your new loan, thereby putting your new car under water as soon as you sign the paper, much less roll it off the lot.
I think the phone is going to go there as well, with the AT&T NEXT program using a 30 month payment plan. I was surprised that Apple didn't pressure them to offer a 24 month plan as well.
It smacks of a car deal, where the dealership rolls the previous car value (which they always seem to make it below KBB value) into your new loan, thereby putting your new car under water as soon as you sign the paper, much less roll it off the lot.
The Air 2 was good enough for many. Apple should have focused on the Mac.
Apple has three lines of Tablet, the high end one accounts for less than one third (as specific as they get so we'll have to assume it's still roughly 1/3 or they'd have said 1/4 or 1/5 etc...) of sales.
Tablet market slides as a whole along with a decrease in tablet revenue year over year for Apple but Apple's share of the pie grows larger.
Shouldn't the headline have been "iPad Pro sales approximately proportionate to other iPad lines?" Or would that not be bait-y enough?
Tablet market slides as a whole along with a decrease in tablet revenue year over year for Apple but Apple's share of the pie grows larger.
Shouldn't the headline have been "iPad Pro sales approximately proportionate to other iPad lines?" Or would that not be bait-y enough?
lol they have been selling 9.7 inch pro since months now.
meh -ipad isn't innovative at all.
why hasnt apple done anything impressive with the OS as of late? They make it run like a big iphone
why hasnt apple done anything impressive with the OS as of late? They make it run like a big iphone
9.7 pro exists as does a 24 month ATT program.
The issue I have with the iPad pro naming scheme is it feels like a gimmick to raise average selling price. The iPad Pro is really just the successor to the iPad Air 2. It is not actually "more professional" than the iPad Air that came before it.
