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Since I bought my macbook pro retina I'm more and more convinced that the iPad is just a fashion that is unnecessary having a 5,5 iphone and a macbook. And I have an iPad Air...

it certainly is a "1st world problem" kind of device.
 
32GB of storage standard! For the iPhone 6 as well please... it's 2014

Why? I prefer it to be cheaper than to have 32 gb or larger battery. I DON'T WANT MORE SPACE OR BATTERY, for God's sake, the forums' mantra, I have the 16gb model (iphone) and 6gb free and the battery lasts me 1,5-2 days using it quite a lot, I don't know how do you manage your iphones. What I want is a bigger screen and a files explorer, for example

Go figure:
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7 hours of use and 1 day, 4 hours stand by, 36% remaining. 45 apps, 6,3 gb free out of a 16gb model.

Spotify and dropbox are your friends people.
 
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I keep hoping that I'll figure out a way to use the iPad for something besides surfing the internet. Still no luck.
 
I hope they aren't saying innovation just as a buzzword but they actually have something interesting to bring to the iPad that most of us haven't even thought about.
 
How about proving current amount of RAM causes lagging before moving to 2GB?

Safari + Tabs + Reloading every damn page

Why? I prefer it to be cheaper than to have 32 gb or larger battery. I DON'T WANT MORE SPACE OR BATTERY, for God's sake, the forums' mantra, I have the 16gb model and 6gb free and the battery lasts me 1,5-2 days using it quite a lot, I don't know how do you manage your iphones. What I want is a bigger screen and a files explorer, for example

you dont seem to use it quite a lot with 6GB free and 2 days of battery life, i have to charge mine twice a day and also if the 32GB becomes the entry model it wont me more expensive so why not take the space if its for the same price???
 
I think when Cook says "incredible" products, innovation, etc., he just means what we already know is coming - faster & thinner iPhones/iPads.

:rolleyes:
 
I love it when some of you on here are whining that "apple had better do this with the ipad" because as it stands it doesn't meet your VERY particular usage case. Apple doesn't craft the ipad to meet YOUR use case, it crafts it to realistically meet the needs of 99% of the people that will purchase it.

It's especially funny when some of you demand a battery that is twice as big. I would bet anything that if Apple actually did this, you would whine and scream "omg they didn't make it any thinner!"

Some people seem to only ever whine and complain. Seriously, if you dislike the device so much, go out and get a Galaxy tab so you can start whining about how Samsung doesn't perfectly meet your needs :rolleyes:

Please let there be more then 1 gig of ramz.

Lol some of you people calling for "needz more RAM or I won't buy it" or "needz more than a 1.5Ghz quad core processor" really just don't get it.

RAM, even on older iOS devices, is almost never a bottleneck. Mobile applications, even most games, usually use extremely small amounts of RAM. What tends to cause lagginess on older devices is just GPU/CPU speed. So calling for more RAM is about as useful as calling for a lower CAS latency, you'd never actually notice an improvement because a 3 year old mobile processor is going to slow things down regardless.
 
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Safari + Tabs + Reloading every damn page



you dont seem to use it quite a lot with 6GB free and 2 days of battery life, i have to charge mine twice a day and also if the 32GB becomes the entry model it wont me more expensive so why not take the space if its for the same price???

I've edited the message with images. I use it a lot, but I use dropbox, spotify and other streaming services. And I close apps when I don't use them, I also manage its connections like bluetooth wifi and so on...

It would be nice to have more RAM, that's true
 
How about proving current amount of RAM causes lagging before moving to 2GB?

What does lagging have to do with anything? It is all about being able to keep more content in memory before iOS terminates the processes and force the app to reload the data, which does suck when you open it again after switching to another app and back within a few minutes.

You can do prove this easily, just open up Safari, open up 3-4 tabs, switch to another app and switch back to Safari, switch between each tab and it'd reload from the disk instead of memory, which takes 2-3 seconds to finish.
 
I'm excited what they will do with the iPad.

I wonder what qualifies as "significant innovation" to Tim Cook?
 
I wonder what qualifies as "significant innovation" to Tim Cook?

Slightly faster (but that speed will go away in a few generations of iOS), slightly thinner and with a very slightly better camera.

That's all the "innovation" we got the last couple years.

Oh, that and the Maps beta. Which is still in beta.
 
I WANT to believe...

Another earnings report, another promise of "amazing innovations in the pipeline". Sorry, Tim, you've been promising that for too long with no results. I just don't believe you anymore. I want to believe, but I just don't.
 
Nah, that's not innovative enough. Knowing Apple, they'll steal another brilliant idea from Android -- namely, watching two different films on one screen. Amazing and not at all impractical.

That's why I've bought the Galaxy Pro Note "S-Stylus Pro" S 7 running the latest Android beta that only pros and clever people use, (version 19.02, masculinely named 'Sweetie Sugarplum Snuggle').

And it's for reasons like this that I'll stay with Android and never buy an iPad, because they're for little children and tech idiots who don't know real technology when they see it. I want to customise my icons, create silly ringtones, see how much lag I can achieve on a quad-core processor and hold cheap plastic, dammit!

love your sarcasm :cool:
 
you dont seem to use it quite a lot with 6GB free and 2 days of battery life, i have to charge mine twice a day and also if the 32GB becomes the entry model it wont me more expensive so why not take the space if its for the same price???

You have to charge it twice a day...? That's not normal. My iPad mini gets used throughout the day and it lasts all day long. You need to call AppleCare for some assistance buddy.
 
Lol some of you people calling for "needz more RAM or I won't buy it" or "needz more than a 1.5Ghz quad core processor" really just don't get it.

RAM, even on older iOS devices, is almost never a bottleneck. Mobile applications, even most games, usually use extremely small amounts of RAM. What tends to cause lagginess on older devices is just GPU/CPU speed. So calling for more RAM is about as useful as calling for a lower CAS latency, you'd never actually notice an improvement because a 3 year old mobile processor is going to slow things down regardless.

Nobody said anything about bottleneck, it has nothing to do with speed nor responsiveness of the system.

Safari reloading tabs each time you switch between applications is not the result of the performance of CPU/GPU. Simply the fact that Safari eats up a lot of memory and if you switch between applications, you'll cause Safari to terminate the tab process in order to free up memory. This has been proven to help a lot the moment iPad/iPhone went from 512mb to 1GB.

For people who switches between applications more often, having apps and games being terminated in the background will introduce 1-3 seconds delay as it reload data from the disk instead of memory. Having at least 2GB will help with that.

Also, it is not the GPU/CPU that's the problem. We barely use the full power of the CPU in our daily apps. The biggest bottleneck in any iOS device is the NAND speed. If iOS has a paging system and a super fast SSD, you won't need more memory, the speed of loading content from disk will help as well.
 
You have to charge it twice a day...? That's not normal. My iPad mini gets used throughout the day and it lasts all day long. You need to call AppleCare for some assistance buddy.

ups forgot for a sec that i am on the iPad thread lol i meant my iPhone, my iPad lasts a week
 
Dear Tim Cook,

Reasonable innovations I would like to see in the next iPad:

-an optional active stylus. The iPad just begs to replace paper but handwriting support means I still pick up pen and paper when I need to write quickly

-laptop like bluetooth keyboard support. There are great 3rd party keyboards for the iPad but software is holding back the experience. Apple can improve that software (full navigation via arrow keys please!) without increasingly complexity at all for anyone who doesn't use their iPad with a keyboard.

-file support. Hopefully iOS8 is almost there. Cloud drive if it is supported right, particularly by third party software, could greatly relieve the file management issues. I should always be able to keep ONE copy of a file in a central location (not within an app) and be able to access it from my iPad and macbook air seamlessly using any app I want.

-dual screen multitasking. Not absolutely necessary but would be nice. I'd frankly be happy with just an easier way to do the multitasking we have right now. Both double clicking a physical home button and doing an awkward four finger swipe don't really cut it for an action I want to do quickly often to switch between apps for work.

-iOS should be optimized for the iPad just like the amazing iOS apps are. 9 apps visible per page on a 9.7inch screen is the height of stupidity and really makes you sound like a hypocrite when you criticize android tablets.

Sincerely,
Your future tech consultant :D

PS. Please don't limit awesome new productivity features to a new 12" iPad Pro. The iPad Air is a triumph of optimal screen size, weight and dimensions for a portable tablet. Please keep making it better!
 
I have a mini and to be honest I'm not all that happy with it. It's too small compared with the 3rd gen retina that I gave to my mother. Plus, if I get a 5.5" iPhone I'd like to go larger with the tablet. I do like to read magazines and books, but I wish the iPad offered just a touch more laptop capability. I actually WAS quite impressed with what Microsoft did with the Surface Pro 3, but I want the Apple ecosystem. I'll be interested to see where things are headed with the iPad.
 
Let's figure out how to attach files to emails before we get to crazy with the innovation there Tim.

Jony can't even reply to one of your emails and insert a PDF with the latest design with out an archaic workaround.
 
I was talking about my iPhone too :confused:

well i do use it a lot and its been like this for every iPhone generation i have ever owned. I unplug it around 9 am in the morning and have to charge it around 6pm and then i charge it once again before i go to bed when its around 30%

spotify and the heat in the summer also seems to drain it faster.

health is still at 90,28% after 438 charging cycles
 
Nah, that's not innovative enough. Knowing Apple, they'll steal another brilliant idea from Android -- namely, watching two different films on one screen. Amazing and not at all impractical.

That's why I've bought the Galaxy Pro Note "S-Stylus Pro" S 7 running the latest Android beta that only pros and clever people use, (version 19.02, masculinely named 'Sweetie Sugarplum Snuggle').

And it's for reasons like this that I'll stay with Android and never buy an iPad, because they're for little children and tech idiots who don't know real technology when they see it. I want to customise my icons, create silly ringtones, see how much lag I can achieve on a quad-core processor and hold cheap plastic, dammit!

/s right?
 
Significant innovation should mean power user features not possible on an iPhone. It needs to sit between iPhone and Mac from a functionality perspective and right now, it may be too similar in functionality to an iPhone for some people to recognize its benefits.

That said, at home, iPad Air is my preferred device over iPhone, HTC phone, MacBook Pro and PC laptop.
 
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