'iPad Pro' Production Reaffirmed for September-October Ahead of Rumored Late 2015 Launch

[ataq]

iPad Pro exclusive feature

Use as a second monitor for your mac! But thats not all. While connecting the iPad Pro turns into a powerful companion gadget where you can use Force Touch, Stylus etc for your mac!

 

[deviant]

Yeah, Digitimes.... suuuuuure.......

 

[Keane16]

This is exactly the kind of innovation that Apple needs! Oh, wait...

Isn't that the entire point of the Pro - it does more than the other iPads? Wacom style pressure sensitive input the big one for the artist types?

If all it is is bigger then sure, whip out the cartoon.

Is apple basically doing what it did last time without Steve Jobs? Where they just kept adding models of computers?

The problem wasn't models. They were just poorly differentiated. He still had different models once he returned. Just like he started with 1 iPod and it branched out into a whole family (later with different colour options) - and fit different needs.

For me, a tablet must:

I think you're going to be very disappointed.

Sounds like a Surface Pro would fit your needs way better than the iPad Pro if rumours are to be believed.

 

[ProjectManager101]

It is going to sell more than Apple Watch for sure. I may see it

Is apple basically doing what it did last time without Steve Jobs? Where they just kept adding models of computers?

Because they do not have more ideas, that was it. Now more cows, they are sucking more milk from the one they have to maintain the impression they are growing.

 

[AppleInTheMud]

iPad Pro must be the most annoying rumor on this site.

Monday. iPad Pro is coming.
Tuesday. iPad Pro not likely.
Wednesday. iPad Pro to be launched with new iPhone
Thursday. No iPad Pro release.
Friday. iPad Pro rumor was based on leaked spec's of a Galaxy Tablet
Saturday. iPad Pro? Maybe
Sunday. Wait for the big news monday. Now repeat...

I would love iPad Pro. But will it come? I don't think so.

 

[ProjectManager101]

Isn't that the entire point of the Pro - it does more than the other iPads? Wacom style pressure sensitive input the big one for the artist types?

If all it is is bigger then sure, whip out the cartoon.



The problem wasn't models. They were just poorly differentiated. He still had different models once he returned. Just like he started with 1 iPod and it branched out into a whole family (later with different colour options) - and fit different needs.



I think you're going to be very disappointed.

Sounds like a Surface Pro would fit your needs way better than the iPad Pro if rumours are to be believed.

Probably, I try them at the mall and they were really really good but I hate Windows navigation so I kept going.

 

[flottenheimer]

I'm definitely interested but with one condition - it must have stylus (and really good one, suitable for professional creative use). The possibilities for various creative uses with stylus are endless. I'm sure app developers will quickly enable us to do things we even can't imagine yet.

I wonder if this is still Apple's attitude/thinking towards styli?
If it applies to all touchscreen devices/screen sizes – or if they think phones and tablets are different?

I'd like for them to make an official stylus and wonderful built in hard/software-support and storage for it – it doesn't have to be included with the devices, but for people who wants it, make it available.

 

[thewap]

Not hearing what makes this ipad *pro* at all.. guess I'll wait and see.

 

[JesterJJZ]

Is apple basically doing what it did last time without Steve Jobs? Where they just kept adding models of computers?

I hope they add a real MacPro to the lineup...

 

[Keane16]

I wonder if this is still Apple's attitude/thinking towards styli?

That was the view of the then CEO (who is now dead) when talking about a 3.5" phone, which had no 3rd party apps, and he was talking about navigation (which is still easy with a finger).

We're now 8 years later, speculating about 12.9" device, with complex 3rd party apps and talking about content creation (which mostly sucks without a stylus).

 

[pagames]

Wonder what the price will be on the iPad Pro? if it's anything like the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus it will be a £100 (and $100) premium, so maybe it will start at £$499

I'm also hoping for a $100 incremental bump over the iPad Air, but since the screen real estate increase is greater than going from the iPad mini to the iPad Air, I'm guess that it could be at least a $200 bump over the Air. If they are competing with the Microsoft Surface Pro, then pricing may exceed $800 for the base model, depending on the specs.

 

[otozuz]

I really hope the iPad Pro won't just be a larger iPad with Force Touch with the same iOS 9 of other iPads and iPhone, but I'm afraid it will — Split screen will be enough for Apple.

 

[Popeye206]

I think this will be a good addition to the iPad line. It will be interesting to see what the real specs are when it's announced.

 

[Tycho24]

They're still a long way from "product name" followed by 3 or 4 digit cryptic number, times 10. This is just continuing what they've been doing when Steve was around, making different sized rectangular touch screen devices

Also I find your signature to be a bit ironic considering your comment

I agree!!!
These SUPER ignorant comments today are honestly as dumb as someone bashing the iPhone 6+, saying it is a "completely different product" that Apple is wasting their time on... lol. iPad mini & iPhone 6+ were BRILLIANT strategic moves by Apple!!! Take a tried & true existing product.... offer it in a different size that may add functionality/be more appealing to some customers.
Wtf could the problem possibly be????!
I think people just are itching SO bad for something to be angry about, they desperately grasp at straws.

Edit:
Food for thought: if Apple offered a third size phone in 4" as many have clamored for, would you guys also consider that a "brand new & wasteful of resources" product, as you clearly do with a third size iPad??

 

[Tycho24]

It has been pretty quiet on the new AppleTV, iTV (the TV that Apple is going to make), the Apple Car, the Watch sales, and Steve Jobs movie lately...

Wait... no, it hasn't.

I know how you're feeling, but this is a fools hope, hoping that MacRumors will stop doing this.

Not to be TOO nitpicking, but I think the idea of Apple making an actual TV instead of set top box has been debunked/torn to shreds SO many times that by now, anyone holding on to that hope may as well be expecting iPod Classic to make a return! =P

 

[WhySoSerious]

I do love that all of the displays of this still show 4 icons at the bottom.

For me, a tablet must:
1. Have a stylus. I haven't used my fingers to draw stuff since I lived in a cave, back around 200,000 years ago. The pen/stylus is one of those inventions that has stood the test of time. Even those "sign with your finger as a pen" POS terminals are obtuse.
2. Have a better OS, like OS X. I don't want to be playing around with a 12" iPhone.
3. Allow a mouse/trackpad. When drawing with a CAD program, that whole "hand" thing gets in the way while I am drawing.
4. Allow windows. To me, a single/dual app model is like working in a book, where only one/two pages can be displayed. Having multiple windows is the way to do it, so I can collect ideas from all over, and arrange them my way. Not that my way is the best for you, but it is the best for me.

Um, buy a Surface Pro 3 with Windows 10. Freaking amazing and will do anything/everything you'd ever want to try and accomplish. This iPad "Pro" crap is just dumb. It's not going to be innovative at all...just another money-grab from Apple.

 

[Mad Mac Maniac]

I'm curious how this will stack up against the Surface Pro 4.

(In terms of size, specs, battery life, etc... obviously the sales will be much better)

 

[Pagemakers]

I'd only purchase if it was an iOS / OS X device.

A bigger iPad with more icons is of no use to me.

 

[840quadra]

Yes. Yes they are. Focusing on a few products, and making them REALLY good, is what helped Apple come back from a very bleak place. And they are getting further and further away from that philosophy, it seems. Hopefully, history won't repeat itself.

I don't agree.

They had various models of iPod, in various sizes when Steve was around. Different models and sizes of MacBooks, Macbook Air, MacBook Pro, and even iMacs. Adding a 3rd size to the iPad lineup isn't really causing too much fragmentation.

Overall the lineup isn't that much different than when Steve passed away in 2011. Sure, there are some totally new models, however, it's not even close to the mess they had back in the Power Macintosh days before the return of Jobs.

 

[MacFather]

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[Nausicaa]

****ing awesome - PLEASE support a stylus, Apple. If they do, this is day 1 purchase for me.

Going to be spending way too much on tech this year - iPad Pro, iPhone 6s, new gaming PC, Oculus Rift... Exciting times!

 

[Nausicaa]

I'm definitely interested but with one condition - it must have stylus (and really good one, suitable for professional creative use). The possibilities for various creative uses with stylus are endless. I'm sure app developers will quickly enable us to do things we even can't imagine yet.

They already have. It's shameful there are so many art and note taking apps out there - many promoted by Apple in keynotes and ads - yet the stylus experience is so laughably bad.

 

[Mr Fusion]

Not hearing what makes this ipad *pro* at all.. guess I'll wait and see.

Same here. Not a single feature mentioned yet that makes it "pro" just more nonsense about styluses and content creation that magically never happened for the current iPad lineup, which is why it's dying. I'm not sure what Apple expected to accomplish by putting a crippled blown-up phone OS onto a tablet, but the sales trends aren't surprising.

Call it the iPad Maxi. It's a more fitting name.

 

[KennyTeacake]

Really wan't it, hope it's released before the end of the year so I can buy it with $$$ instead of £££ while in Florida.
Rip off Britain..

 

[techwhiz]

There are a couple reasons my work place won't buy the current iPad to give to scientists / workers in the field. They could be convinced to go with an iPad in line of business with...

• Higher nit (light intensity units) for viewing in bright light
• Sapphire screen for durability (is that possible?)
• Loooong battery -- a 12.9 inch screen should have a 12.9 inch batter so that's solved
• USB-c to hook up tons of peripherals and write to flash drive
• Multitasking (solved)
• Built in NFC RF maybe barcode reader

1. Okay.
2. Sapphire that big? They couldn't make it for an iPhone. It would also need to be thick. A watch crystal is durable because it's sapphire and thick.
3. Battery, no issue except weight.
4. USB OTG, no big deal.
5. Solved.
6. Barcode. forget it.

Unless an iPad Pro is as good with a pen as a Surface, EPIC FAIL!