I wish Steve Jobs was still alive because with him there I could trust him that there will be innovation. With Tim Cook, I'm not so sure since we haven't seen much innovation from him running the company yet.
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iPad Sales Total 225 Million Units Since 2010 as Apple Claims 'Significant Innovation' Coming
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You must not travel much, then? Taking a 17" MacBook Pro out of my shoulder bag and carrying an iPad on trips instead has been a great relief to my shoulder blades. There have been teething problems but with so many sites converting over to be tablet-aware/friendly it's been a real boon to me in that regard.
Also, sitting in the living room it's a lot more comfortable on my lap than a heavy MacBook Pro
Open up the iPad to the photo/video community!
A huge innovation for photographers and videographers would be the ability to use any iOS device as a field monitor.
There is a guy in one of own Apple ads using it as such with proprietary modifications/software, if only we could all access a similar feature in a friendly manner that would be just great!
A huge innovation for photographers and videographers would be the ability to use any iOS device as a field monitor.
There is a guy in one of own Apple ads using it as such with proprietary modifications/software, if only we could all access a similar feature in a friendly manner that would be just great!
You must not travel much, then? Taking a 17" MacBook Pro out of my shoulder bag and carrying an iPad on trips instead has been a great relief to my shoulder blades. There have been teething problems but with so many sites converting over to be tablet-aware/friendly it's been a real boon to me in that regard.
Also, sitting in the living room it's a lot more comfortable on my lap than a heavy MacBook Pro
Try a late 2013 13''. It's very light and enormously more capable than the ipad, obviously. You order it with 16gb ram and 256 or 512gb ssd and you have a very capable computer with an awesome screen weighting 1,5 or so kg
That would be cool. I wouldn't want 100% separate accounts like in Mac OS, though. I'd want the music library to be shared.
I just hope this "significant innovation" isn't a PC feature like side-by-side multitasking that would be clunky on an iPad.
Yep. My '09 MBP can do anything work-related that my Mac Pro can do, it totally replaces and surpasses the iPad I never bought, and it does most of what my iPhone does besides fitting in my pocket. And an iPad would not fit in my pocket.
I don't know who actually uses an iPad for work and is more productive as a result, but everyone I know with an iPad uses it for useless junk like Vine. I'll grant that it's perfect for that.
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I am so tired of hearing Cook claim the pipeline is incredible and/or innovative. He's in essence been saying "stay tuned" for so long now that I'm beginning to think the emperor has no clothes.
Either admit that "innovation" now amounts to generational enhancements to existing products and stop with the hype or actually start delivering new products. I can't think of a single new Apple device the company has launched since Jobs died.
Not really. They would announce features specifically for new devices at the time the new devices are unveiled, not when iOS is unveiled. What sense would it make at the iOS 8 keynote to say.. "Also, this cool new feature here that is only going to be available to devices that aren't out yet." ? None at all. All that would do is stop people from buying current models.
Buy an Android tablet. We don't want you casting votes for this. And 16:9 sucks, even on my desktop Mac.
Actually the only thing I do nowadays with my ipad is reading books and newspapers. But you have to admit that it's a waste to use it for that, I mean, it's a 500+ USD device...
1. Safari forces a reload of tabs just to save battery life. More RAM would not fix this issue. It will save data for a few tabs to RAM but after a certain time limit it clears that tab and forces a reload when you open it. Even when you have plenty of free RAM left it will still do this. It's a lot of little software tricks like this that help extend battery life.
2. This is an even bigger case of where the actual amount of RAM has little effect. When an app enters the background, in order to reduce energy use, Apple encourages developers to remove strong references to objects in the program and to reduce unnecessary processor use. Some app developers, however, don't use these techniques which wastes a lot of battery and memory. iPads and iPhones automatically purge these apps from memory whenever it gets too full. However, this is not a problem of a lack of memory, it's a problem of lazy developers. Most iOS apps don't have this problem and adding more RAM would be completely unnoticeable.
3. NAND storage uses a LOT more memory than the flash used in modern tablets/phones like iOS devices. Sure, it would be nice, but it would destroy the battery life of ANY tablet platform. And it is WAY more expensive than standard flash memory. It really is the CPU/GPU on older iOS devices that causes problems. They simply don't have the horsepower to efficiently do things like displaying UI animations that make iOS 7 look so nice. Sure, the iPhone 4 does have a GPU capable of doing the animation effects, but the problem (as usual) is that it would need to ramp up the GPU to such a degree that it would slaughter battery life on the device.
Very rarely does Apple limit capabilities on its tablet to save money, it usually limits things like the amount of RAM, etc. to conserve battery life. Every complaint you mentioned is a limitation of battery life, not RAM.
iPad Pro and Next Gen Macbook Air the same thing?
I cannot help but notice that the next gen Macbook Air is rumoured to sport a retina 12" screen - same as the rumored iPad Pro. Why would u abandon the popular 13" screen size for the next gen MacBook Air unless you go for a laptop tablet hybrid?
The iPad Air is already as slim as the display of older MacBook's just a few years ago ... at 12" u probably get space to go even slimmer for the iPad Pro ... dock it into a keyboard base station that contains additional IO ports and batteries that maybe even has OSX part installed and voila u can do work. The whole 'handoff feature' also makes lots of sense in in this set up. I seem to recall older rumours suggesting Apple was testing OSX on its mobile processors. Currently the Macbook Air and iPad give users an awkward choice ... work or play ... or try working on a iPad using a keyboard (works for writing, not so much for multitasking etc ...). While laptops are great for mobile productivity this business is going stale for Apple ... since tablets are the form factor of the future, I think this time Apple could try to figure how to turn these into productivity devices.
Apple reinvented existing product categories before (tablets, phones, music players) and came up with better solutions than their competitors (who had the right idea, but could not make it work). On that note I find it funny how quickly Apple redesigned the iPod Nano after people used it as a watch ...
I cannot help but notice that the next gen Macbook Air is rumoured to sport a retina 12" screen - same as the rumored iPad Pro. Why would u abandon the popular 13" screen size for the next gen MacBook Air unless you go for a laptop tablet hybrid?
The iPad Air is already as slim as the display of older MacBook's just a few years ago ... at 12" u probably get space to go even slimmer for the iPad Pro ... dock it into a keyboard base station that contains additional IO ports and batteries that maybe even has OSX part installed and voila u can do work. The whole 'handoff feature' also makes lots of sense in in this set up. I seem to recall older rumours suggesting Apple was testing OSX on its mobile processors. Currently the Macbook Air and iPad give users an awkward choice ... work or play ... or try working on a iPad using a keyboard (works for writing, not so much for multitasking etc ...). While laptops are great for mobile productivity this business is going stale for Apple ... since tablets are the form factor of the future, I think this time Apple could try to figure how to turn these into productivity devices.
Apple reinvented existing product categories before (tablets, phones, music players) and came up with better solutions than their competitors (who had the right idea, but could not make it work). On that note I find it funny how quickly Apple redesigned the iPod Nano after people used it as a watch ...
The only time I'd get an iPad is if and when I retire. In fact the last time I saw an iPad being used in public was seeing a married pair of alter kockers deciding where to go next after eating lunch in the restaurant I happened to be in.
Significant innovation - hmmm ... remember what Cook said in his WSJ interview;
"He demurred when asked about specific possible products, but said anyone reasonable would consider Apple's upcoming products to be in new categories."
"He demurred when asked about specific possible products, but said anyone reasonable would consider Apple's upcoming products to be in new categories."
Why did you even buy the ipad? Your complaint seems to have less to do with the iPad and more to do with the fact that you personally have too many devices.
I bought my iPad before the MacBook because I only had a desktop computer. Then I sold my desktop and bought the Macbook.
It's obvious that now I have too many devices, because I thought the macbook would be more uncomfortable.
#4 and 5 are could be likely since Apple will probably laminate the display to the glass this time around like the do on the iPhone and iMac. If they do it will get thiner and lighter just from that.
#8 I would say is very likely. AC wireless isn't going away.
I love my iPad
I have one for personal use, and another for work: QA, engineering drawings, remote programming, etc. It's flexible with limitless applications if you know what you want with it. If you don't use it, then it will remains a figurine, albeit a beautiful one, on your desk.It's true that my Macbook Air can do what iPad does and more, but one thing, iPad is just way too convenient. Save a lot of time, too.
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