Not necessarily. Apple could be transitioning to a 2-year cadence with the iPad. It's possible the Air 3 comes out next year with the A9 or A9X and Pencil support, while the mini 4 remains unchanged, and is updated in 2017 with the A10.
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Not necessarily. Apple could be transitioning to a 2-year cadence with the iPad. It's possible the Air 3 comes out next year with the A9 or A9X and Pencil support, while the mini 4 remains unchanged, and is updated in 2017 with the A10.
I'm talking about the fact that pre-orders showed up at three different non-Apple vendors, with two different "available" dates before Apple uttered a word about the rollout. They usually control the message very sharply with new product rollouts.
My goodness, the chomping at the bit over ordering ASAP! Every other post is complaining about how long people have to wait to order and receive delivery. People are wasting money on overnight shipping and then going crazy when overnight fails to be overnight. For what critical task does everyone need this thing sooner than yesterday??
I've been waiting for such a device for years but I'm still going to wait until I've TRIED one in person before I order one.
This is MacRumors, where the freaks live. Don't worry too much about them. I'll do the same as I did with the aTV -- wait until it's on the Apple Store and then click "Buy". It'll turn up and I'll play with it. Easy.
If keeping older hardware in the sales lineup slows down the rate of obsoleting hardware via bloated OS updates, I'm happy to see older generation hardware remain in the lineup.
Wow. Thanks for your opinion...
Yours was an extremely rude and unnecessary thing to say. Especially since you gave absolutely no reasoning as to why my observation somehow "makes me look bad."
I certainly hope whatever got you into such a bad mood this morning has resolved itself. Have a great day.
“incredible, excited,” . “the most powerful even more creative more productive epic powerful groundbreaking new”
said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing.
In barely 5 lines of text.
How come I'm not surprised
said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing.
In barely 5 lines of text.
How come I'm not surprised
That doesn't bother me at all. In fact it's been and felt extremely solid since launch day. Battery is still amazing.
What happened to in store sales of iPad pro beginning on Wednesday 11/11/15?
Because you sharply grasp the concept of "marketing", which is in Phils job title for all to see.
Another person that doesn't get that iOS devices aren't desktop/laptop computers. There's no comparison. That's not because iOS is inherently inferior but because it's aimed at fundamentally different types of usage.
The goal with iOS devices was to fit one category, limited number of tasks, and do those very well. This was rarely ever done by other companies. One comes to mind: Palm.
If anything, iOS has stepped off the path in trying to do a lot more than it was meant to do. That's risky in terms of losing focus and acquiring bloat. Which it has done. Optimization, stabilization, and even feature removal need to be done at this point.
Maybe to you.
Incredible. Entitlement monster calling OTHER people snotty for getting told off about his snotty self-focus.
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Exactly this thing is going smoke every table and a lot notebooks out of the water.
After feasting on the Anandtech review of the A9 CPU/GPU - that A9X its going to be epic.
"On the SoC side, it’s pretty safe to say that the A9 SoC is the best SoC in any phone today"
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9686/the-apple-iphone-6s-and-iphone-6s-plus-review/15
This is a niche product. In order to sell effectively, you make a low range version for the minority of people in that market that want it but can't shell out full cost (by cutting flash storage), then you give the "real" version (with and without cellular) to the regular focus of that market. Overall it's still a smaller market than the other products.
I'm just wondering where the line that marks the border between skilled marketing and self-parody lies
This is the iPad I had hoped they'd build on day 1.
Unfortunately, it is not day 1, and our expectations have had 7 years to develop.
Now it seems a poor mobile device because while the OS is right, it's size is too big, a poor professional creative device because while it's size is right, it only runs iOS, and a poor toy because while it's a novelty, it's as expensive as a full featured notebook or surface pro.
Unfortunately, it is not day 1, and our expectations have had 7 years to develop.
Now it seems a poor mobile device because while the OS is right, it's size is too big, a poor professional creative device because while it's size is right, it only runs iOS, and a poor toy because while it's a novelty, it's as expensive as a full featured notebook or surface pro.
Will wait until January before getting this. Hopefully by that time, all initial units rushed out by Apple will all have been sold.
I disagree, the intention of iOS was not to do less, but to do things in a new way that is not restricted by years of cruft from the development of the PC. Managing files is archaic, but managing files on iOS is even more cumbersome when you need to use more than one app to process a file.
The problem is that Apple's solution to a lot of issues isn't fully fleshed out yet. Think about common scenarios like using reading a document while also writing another one (Can only run one instance of Pages.) Or something like video editing, where you have a lot of separate files. Or software development, where again you have a lot of separate files of many different types (source code, images, sounds, storyboard layouts, etc.) Currently Apple is just ignoring those things.
iOS device being called iPad PRO is an oxymoron with how severely limited it is
You don't call something a pro device which doesn't even have a simple file storage
Yeah I am in the camp that thinks that for people would've paid the same price regardless of 10" vs 12" display.... I also think it makes sense to try out new changes on one device not all three at the same time. It complicates things. I think Apple is doing this the right way TBQH. If there are any issues Apple can resolve it with a few people rather than a ton of people.
I feel like this is forcing people to spend $900 that just want a pencil.
We have a 12" retina device. It's called the MacBook.
The MacBook was targeted to graphic designers and people who don't need high end Intel processors.
So now people who bought the MacBook 12" but need to draw, have to buy an iPad Pro.
And people who buy the iPad Pro, that need a full OS, have to buy a MacBook.
They should've just made the MacBook into like a MacBook Pad with optional Pencil and fully convertible with a keyboard "cover" to prevent it from scratching.
We don't need a 12" iOS only device. iOS has enough issues just scaling up to 10". They have it perfect with an iOS device 10" with multi tasking and split screen. Make the pencil an iOS or MacBook capable accessory so people with an iPad can get it or people with a MacBook 12" can get it.
We have a 12" retina device. It's called the MacBook.
The MacBook was targeted to graphic designers and people who don't need high end Intel processors.
So now people who bought the MacBook 12" but need to draw, have to buy an iPad Pro.
And people who buy the iPad Pro, that need a full OS, have to buy a MacBook.
They should've just made the MacBook into like a MacBook Pad with optional Pencil and fully convertible with a keyboard "cover" to prevent it from scratching.
We don't need a 12" iOS only device. iOS has enough issues just scaling up to 10". They have it perfect with an iOS device 10" with multi tasking and split screen. Make the pencil an iOS or MacBook capable accessory so people with an iPad can get it or people with a MacBook 12" can get it.
