Without a redesign or drastic drop in price, that iPad Mini is DOA. How is it that the Mini is more expensive than the full size iPad that has recently been updated? This makes NO sense. Do an iPad mini with the updated design language already geez.
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milking the mini toooo much and tooo long...come on Tim new design plssss it’s been ages give some love to the mini.
Wtf Apple. How could you be still using the old iPad Mini design. Very disappointed, will not buy.
It didn’t flop at all by the numbers I’ve seen! Do you refer to US figures or some such?
Still the same antique 9 year old design for the mini? The holding back of features and designs by Cook has gotten beyond ridiculous.
This would be my guess, that the iPad Mini has been integrated into hospital settings, in the cockpit of aircraft, manufacturing sites, and other such “large buyer” situations. They would want more power but not the need to redesign their systems to fit a new form.
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I hoped that the new decade would bring new iPad designs across the board, but it's looking like it's not to be. The base iPad design will remain for the foreseeable future.
Still, I can't wait for the new iPads to be released so I can finally retire my Macs, so I hope that they make it Summer and not the Fall like years past.
Still, I can't wait for the new iPads to be released so I can finally retire my Macs, so I hope that they make it Summer and not the Fall like years past.
Ugly rumours have a tendency of panning out as true. It's the awesome concept renders that never see the light of day.
Still leaving the front camera on the short edge? Have they not twigged that the main use of that thing is for video conferencing, especially these days, and that most people will use it in landscape for that? One area where Samsung are getting it right and Apple stubbornly getting it wrong.
For me it’s more about the form factor. I use my mini more than my 12.9 iPad Pro. It’s just more comfortable to hold and the size good enough for my usage.
Having more screen space in the same form factor would just be a welcome bonus. Same with using Face ID.
so for me it’s less about the power and more about maximizing the space in the current size.
What a shame. I’m not in the market for a full sized iPad as I don’t find it ergonomic to use.
If there was a new iPad mini with the current edge to edge design language, I’d jump on it in a heartbeat and upgrade to the new iPhone mini from my XS Max.
But I won’t pay £399 for an iPad mini which is based on an outdated design.
If there was a new iPad mini with the current edge to edge design language, I’d jump on it in a heartbeat and upgrade to the new iPhone mini from my XS Max.
But I won’t pay £399 for an iPad mini which is based on an outdated design.
Apple's making me mad. Just make a mini with high thin bezels, face ID, and and dont gimp its specs and functionality (split screen mode). I would gladly sell my 11" and keyboard and just use that as its mostly a content consumption device for me. I refuse to buy the fat bezel version.
I think one reason why the Mini will maintain its form is because they’re extremely popular in education, especially in lower grades
Little hands can use them easier and having the home button is probably more intuitive when teachers ask kids to switch apps or close programs.
Little hands can use them easier and having the home button is probably more intuitive when teachers ask kids to switch apps or close programs.
I was waiting for the new mini and a new ATV. If this is the “new” mini, I’m tempted to get a refurb mini 5 and call it a day.
They should remove the ancient looking bezels and home button ,but they don’t need to make it a “Pro” model because then they will price it astronomically and the iPad Mini demographic don’t want that.the iPad Mini is already very expensive for what it is.
I had a few since the first retina model by the way.
Agree 100%. Photo shown could be just the same iPads of yesteryear and that the current ones coming out later this year Are not known yet. The source of these photos are not known
People said this about the 12 mini and look how the sales for that turned out.
EDIT: Damn others beat me to it
I agree.
Imo, we can add, that for most people the traditional design just works, the home button has its benefits, ...
Only a certain segment of people want / need that style change every three or four years, even if it has no real practical benefit, to show off that they have the new model. And, have we not seen Apple flip flop on frame design, rounded, square, rounded, square. There are only a few options to do the edge. What is old becomes new again, but all things considered had no end use benefit ... unless there is a flat edge with some ports in it.
The mini primarily needs extra cpu & gpu power, extra ram, possibly a slight increase in screen size within the same overall form factor and maybe some small camera updates because it seems every product version needs that.
Yes, but mini doesn't mean entry level. It's the lightest device, small enough to carry easily, big enough for most things, including watching movies. Unlike the bulky bigger brothers, you can actually hold it for a few minutes. And due to the smaller size it's also more robust. The mini should be the highest-end device.
You might be keen to have your new iPad continue to get OS upgrades as long as possible.
I'm very down with the iPad mini getting some love, and I'm even more down with it keeping the home button and headphone jack. But there really is something nice about the fact that the current resolution of the current iPad mini is one that has been in use since 2012. Like, so many old apps that have not updated themselves for even the 10.5" iPads, let alone the 2018 and 2020 iPad Pros and the 2020 iPad Air, but still run on iPadOS 14, have zero display mismatching on the current iPad mini. That kind of long term support is nice and not often received for an iDevice.
The current 10.9 Air is better than the previous 10.5 Air, but it still strikes me as redundant with a good 10.2-10.5 regular iPad available. A larger Mini (bigger screen, smaller bezels) would be good. The iPad Pros are on another level although I do think they are too expensive. For some all these variations of iPad can be confusing.
Mind you Samsung also has an array of tablets and the distinction between them isn’t as clear as it is with iPad.
Mind you Samsung also has an array of tablets and the distinction between them isn’t as clear as it is with iPad.
The new Mini needs to be accompanied by a serious price drop if they're keeping that general design. Having it at a higher price than the regular iPad with basically the same design is ridiculous.