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iPad Pro Online Orders Start November 11, Available in Stores Later This Week
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Count me as one of the ones who will be purchasing day 1. The plan is for this to replace my MacBook Air (Already sold it on ebay so I hope this works out lol)
From what I have seen so far it can do all I personally need it to do, and the Pencil is a major draw for me. Of course, if it doesn't work out I will return it and go back to laptop land. No real loss either way.
From what I have seen so far it can do all I personally need it to do, and the Pencil is a major draw for me. Of course, if it doesn't work out I will return it and go back to laptop land. No real loss either way.
I guess it depends if they are going with the iPhone launch then its 12:00am PST. However if they are going with the Apple TV launch then its sometime in the morning.
I don't think it will be the most popular, but it will be the most powerful.
Flagship: "the best or most important thing owned or produced by a particular organization."
I may be wrong but, 3D Touch may not come to the iPad next year. If you look at the amount of weight it added to the iPhone, it might just make the iPad too heavy.
Their customer is Apple. As long as Apple was happy how you felt is irrelevant sorry to say.
How so?
We should have seen the Air 3 this year with the A9 chip but Apple thought it best to hold back the regular iPad line to make the Pro look better.. I have no interest in the Pro. So annoyed!
What would an iPad Air with A9 do for you that the current Air doesn't do? Is the current Air not fast enough?
I guess you didn't see the keynote then because there was no mention of 3D Touch for iPad Pro.
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Usually flagship means the product that is the launching platform for new technologies. It usually is the most high-end offering in the line up. It does not need to be the most popular or best selling product.
I learned my lesson with the recent ATV4 launch that ordering on launch day was a mistake.
Having ordered 6 minutes after it went live on the Apple Store app and then finding out 2 days later I could have bought it in store that Friday and having to wait until last Thursday to receive it in the post, I think I will take my chances with store pickup.
Having ordered 6 minutes after it went live on the Apple Store app and then finding out 2 days later I could have bought it in store that Friday and having to wait until last Thursday to receive it in the post, I think I will take my chances with store pickup.
Because Apple usually launches a new product with very clear messaging about when it will be available for pre-order and in-store sales. But the first message about sales and ordering didn't even come from them. Three other retailers announced it before Apple did. Not like their normal launch.
I always assume that they have a strategy for these things, even when they don't make sense on the surface. Maybe that's the case here, and it will become apparent later.
Wrong to call any iPad "Pro" IMHO.
iPad Plus (in line with the larger iPhone) would have been better.
The more I see of this, the more I want one, but I really can't justify it as I've already got an Air 2 and 12" rMB and could in no way be described as an artist, so I have no real need for a 12.9" iPad.
It certainly is a beautiful bit of kit, though and I hope people enjoy it
It certainly is a beautiful bit of kit, though and I hope people enjoy it
Ugh, can guarantee most people will not be able to get one at launch because Apple feels this stupid need to push all these products to every country at one time.
Agree. They should make all products available to you Americans first. Because it is an American company right? Oh, but wait. You are not the largest market and only a fraction of the employees live in the US.
MURICA!!!
We should have seen the Air 3 this year with the A9 chip but Apple thought it best to hold back the regular iPad line to make the Pro look better.. I have no interest in the Pro. So annoyed!
Wouldn't surprise me if they also hold back other basic features like landscape stereo speakers from the regular iPad line up in future for the same reasons. Hmph!
2012:
iPad 4 with A6X
2013:
Air 1 with A7
2014:
Air 2 with A8X
2015:
iPad Pro With A9X
2016:
Air 3 with A9X
iPad Pro 2 with A10X
I'm not so sure how much difference you would notice in real world use between the A10 and A9 and I'd rather they did that than have a big price premium for the Pro. Personally I'm pleased they've moved to 2 year upgrade cycle for the Mini and the Air as it means I'll only have to replace them every 2 years to keep with the latest tech.
I'm shocked this is launching in so many countries simultaneously. I guess this means they have the supply to handle it...or they don't have the supply and this is a retina MacBook situation all over again. Hopefully they learned from that fiasco.
Who's being forced to buy it? New technologies don't come to all Apple products at once. iPad Pro stuff will most likely find its way to the iPad Air next year. My guess though is the creative professionals this device is targeted towards want the larger display.
I thought pressing deeper's what the Pencil is for?
As far as I understand Force Touch, it makes much more sense on a phone-sized thing, where the size of an iPad lets you get away with multi-fingered gestures and a stylus becomes a more worthwhile form of "pressing deeper".
I don't think it's to do as much with supply as demand. It's been reported that Apple expect sales of the iPad Pro to be rather low (around 2.5 million) and so that allows them to spread that across more countries to try and maximise sales.
A year ago, I'd have thought the same way. But the closest B&M Apple Store is twenty miles away, and I now have three additional infants at home all day long. I can't pop out to the Apple Store on a whim, not knowing for sure what the stock levels will be. I'd rather place my order online and know it will be delivered to my door--even if it means strangers will get their hands on them days before I do.