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Leaker Claims New 11th-Generation Low-Cost iPad Will Launch Tomorrow

sack_peak said:
Will the Amazon or Walmart's 2022 iPad 10.2" Wi-Fi 64GB be sold at $249 when the 2023 model comes out?

The 2021 model's sold at that price point
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$269 was more like the sale price that would pop up for the 9th (2021) gen periodically. For example, Last Black Friday / Cyber Monday in 2022 :


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This $245 is a 'firesale'. ( started showing up in August 2023 ) . If the 10th gen sticks around, it is doubtful it will fall quite that low right away.

P.S. Apple kept a seriously comatose 'edu' iMac ( non retina) around well past the point it went 'stale'. It isn't a sure than that the 9th Gen is going to completely disappear. ( If Apple has some susbtantive 'long contract' buyers , it may stick around and the 11 would drop in at the higher 10th gen price point. If the 9th gen stuck around for yet another year then that $245 price probably would keep popping back up on major non-Apple retailer sites. )
 
sack_peak said:
Will the Amazon or Walmart's 2022 iPad 10.2" Wi-Fi 64GB be sold at $249 when the 2023 model comes out?

The 2021 model's sold at that price point
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Highly unlikely. The original/regular price of the 2021 model is $329. I doubt retailers are going to take $200 off the 2022 model’s regular price of $450.

Many people speculate that Apple will just drop the 2022 model and still continue selling the 2021 model alongside the 2023 model.
 
sublunar said:
If it’s a very light cpu upgrade to A15 the I guess they could lose the 9th gen iPad so that lightning connected stuff starts to disappear from the site. Maybe the 10th gen sticks around as cheaper budget model?
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I can see that. Keeping the 9 around and still releasing the 11 would look odd.

But keeping the 10 around as the cheapest model for the price of a 9? That sounds good.
I’d be tempted to pick up a 10 just because I like the colors so much 😂
 
Low cost but like the 10th gen it says in the article? But the 10th gen wasn’t the last low cost iPad, the 9th gen was. Let’s hope this one actually has a low cost and not a starting price of £499 like the 10th gen did. Apple really messed up last year as a lot of children and schools had no choice but to buy older iPads. With inflation now adjusted, I just hope Apple have got it right this year.
 
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They should just release a stripped down iPad called "Grandparent Edition". IMHO, the iPad Mini is for kids, the Macbook Air is for college kids and as a paperweight for Directors, Macbook Pros are for "pro users", the Mac Mini for people who like a rat's nest of cables taped to the back of their old Dell monitor, the Mac Studio is something we all say we're going to buy instead of the Pro, the iMac is for the front desk of a few hair salons, and iPads are for Grandparents (to Facetime their grandkids).
 
BGarza said:
They should just release a stripped down iPad called "Grandparent Edition". IMHO, the iPad Mini is for kids, the Macbook Air is for college kids and as a paperweight for Directors, Macbook Pros are for "pro users", the Mac Mini for people who like a rat's nest of cables taped to the back of their old Dell monitor, the Mac Studio is something we all say we're going to buy instead of the Pro, the iMac is for the front desk of a few hair salons, and iPads are for Grandparents (to Facetime their grandkids).
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The 9th gen iPad is popular for school children and schools bought them in the millions. The Mini is a bit small for many of the apps and tasks that involve pencil use like drawing.

I was organising the budget at my daughter’s school recently and they had £15k to spend on iPads and we were able to get 50 iPad 9th gen’s. By contrast if we’d gone for the 10th gen we’d only have been able to get 30.

You do have a lot of stereotypes in your post that are wholly inaccurate but I get the impression it’s tongue in cheek.
 
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At what time does Apple usually release Press Releases for this kind of stuff? 10 AM California? Will the store go down in advance? I think last year it went down at around 5 AM PT.
 
I have always wondered how and why Apple has managed to keep the lowest iPad prices below the iPhone prices. (except maybe the SE)
 
Does anyone remember the iPad 4?
It came out in the same year as the iPad 3 and was the first to have a Lightning port.
(After that, Apple had a break of more than two years where it didn't sell a regular iPad without an additional name like Air).

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This company has become a total yawn fest, they don't even put any effort in launching new products or innovate
 
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well I could see that the rumored iPad mini with A16 is actually the base iPad with A16 ... if only they at least gave it laminated display...

or raise the base storage on the iPad Air to match 128GB starting config of non-SE iPhones
 
BeatCrazy said:
I think they keep the old form factor in the lineup for the education market.
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Yep, Education here, 2500 iPads deployed 1:1 , we still buy 9th Gen iPads (We have bought and still use 5th,6th,7th,8th in the past), the price jump in the iPad 10 is too much. Ordering some more 9th Gen's today.

We don't need or want the re-design, we just want a cheap iOS device that gets its internals updated every year, like they had been doing until the 10th Gen made a mess of it. Ideally keeping the same design as it makes having stock of things like cases easier.
 
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The store is showing "New" already for iPad Pro and iPad (not iPad Air) but seems to be showing the older models. EDIT: I can see somebody else has posted this. Can confirm the same in Australia :) New also appears next to Keyboards (in iPad), Mac Studio, Mac Pro and MacBook Air.

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k1ckdapro said:
The bigger phone usually also have more advanced tech. Like the cameras on the Pro Max. Not on iPads.
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I guess we had the same technology in the iPhone 12 and the Mini (same in the 13), right? Yet the Mini was cheaper.

Maybe Apple just makes less money with it (maybe because of "less demand" as you mentioned) plus your "no cellular, inferior cameras".
 
A new iPad will result in price-drops for most of Europe, same like they did for iPhone 15 last month.
 
JohannesO said:
I have always wondered how and why Apple has managed to keep the lowest iPad prices below the iPhone prices. (except maybe the SE)
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Less demand, so they have to tempt buyers with better prices. Economists once used to say that increased demand of a widget drives down prices because the whole end-to-end production-chain for the widget can afford to lower its profit-margins and still make the same amount of money or more. But there comes a tipping-point where a widget becomes such a ubiquitous much-have purchase for its disciples that they can basically charge whatever they want and it'll still sell in truckloads. So they do.
 
I'm hoping they release the new iPad Air tomorrow. My 1st gen iPad Pro battery doesn't last that long anymore. Do I really need an iPad Air? No not really, but hey sometimes the wants out weigh the needs lol
 
ItsASpider said:
Would be wild if the cheap iPad goes from Pencil 1 straight to Pencil 3.
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That's exactly what's going to happen. It's already been shown in iOS code that there is a Pencil coming with USB C connectivity, I guess this will be the new Pencil 3 which you will be able to charge inductively or via USB C.

Given iPad's declining sales I do wonder if we'll see a shift in strategy and the iPad Air dropped today. This 11th gen will gain a laminated screen, improved chip and storage options and be sold as its replacement. This then leaves two clear iPad lines, the regular and Pro, just like the iPhone.

Yes there is also the 'budget' iPad with home button but maybe they'll just keep that going for now.
 
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