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Leaker Claims New 11th-Generation Low-Cost iPad Will Launch Tomorrow
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Apple is very slow at removing there "new" stuff as I do not consider the 10 generation new anymore.
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Switching that zero to a one is trivial. And the New word can stay.
Besides things that upgrade each year are generally tagged "new" year round. See cars.
Apple continues to label anything less than 1 year from it's release date as "new". The 10th gen iPad was released on October 18, 2022 so only a couple days until the new label comes off.
They have both in the AirPods cases... Would be an excuse for Apple to raise the price, $159 MSRP anyone?
Apple will let retailers use them for Black Friday deals to clear out old stock. Then they don't have to offer discounts on new models.
Apples development of iPads has plateaued... it has for many manufacturers...
Most tablets... even Apples lowest of the range model does what most people want of a tablet... for others that are artists and who push the iPads in other ways can do most of what they need on the 2018 iPad Pros.. only a very small percentage need anything more powerful... and if you do, its likely a Mac would be a better option.
All we have had are incremental updates... higher refresh screens, faster processors, more RAM... but the use case and limitation of iPad OS remains.
No wonder revenue for tablets its falling off a cliff.. the market has reached saturation... and most people are happy with iPads that are 3 plus years old.
All Apple need to do now is push out a major refresh on a 2 years cycle... release refined, sensible, worthwhile updates instead of a random, ill advised update cycle chasing changes for revenue. Please no more updates like last years base model which used the ancient cumbersome Apple Pencil first gen... requiring an adapter! It just stinks of bad decision making and desperation. That shouldn't happen at a company that basically re-defined and made the tablet its own.
It's now all about the software.. features like improving stage manager... maybe a hybrid option for the Pro devices where you can maybe have a MacOS-like user interface if you so desire. Better software is what iPad needs along with sensible hardware design.
Most tablets... even Apples lowest of the range model does what most people want of a tablet... for others that are artists and who push the iPads in other ways can do most of what they need on the 2018 iPad Pros.. only a very small percentage need anything more powerful... and if you do, its likely a Mac would be a better option.
All we have had are incremental updates... higher refresh screens, faster processors, more RAM... but the use case and limitation of iPad OS remains.
No wonder revenue for tablets its falling off a cliff.. the market has reached saturation... and most people are happy with iPads that are 3 plus years old.
All Apple need to do now is push out a major refresh on a 2 years cycle... release refined, sensible, worthwhile updates instead of a random, ill advised update cycle chasing changes for revenue. Please no more updates like last years base model which used the ancient cumbersome Apple Pencil first gen... requiring an adapter! It just stinks of bad decision making and desperation. That shouldn't happen at a company that basically re-defined and made the tablet its own.
It's now all about the software.. features like improving stage manager... maybe a hybrid option for the Pro devices where you can maybe have a MacOS-like user interface if you so desire. Better software is what iPad needs along with sensible hardware design.
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The Pencil would have to be longer (or thicker) than the 2 to accommodate the charging connector at the same battery capacity. That would seem like a regression, in particular for users who only need the wireless option.
For the AirPods cases, the situation is different because you need the wireless charger in addition to charge wirelessly (you can’t charge the case with your iPhone or iPad wirelessly), whereas with the Pencil 2 you only need the iPad that you have anyway.
I hope Apple increases the RAM/Memory for the 11th Gen iPad and iPad mini to future proof it more. I’m doubtful they’d give them 8gb like the current Air and iPad Pros but it be nice to see the regular iPads go to 6GB of memory.
No way! Me too! Want to go halfers on a yacht? We can have it controlled by iPads, much like Macs controlled Steve Jobs' yacht!! 🤣
This is just the Apple Store. I'm sure there's loads of inventory in other channels.
In most cases, when a new product is about to be launched, half or most the stores will be OOS. A new engraved unit, direct from China, takes only one week according the Apple Store. That's far too quick if the factory is supposed to be ramping the new model.
Nah. Just the 10th will go away. Can’t see them cutting it that much.
It seems the difference between the 10 and 11 would be too small to make the higher-priced 11 attractive. The target group mostly doesn’t care about the CPU as long as it’s “good enough”.