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Mark Gurman: Apple Exploring iPads With Larger Displays
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To be fair, Surface tablets are infinitely more useful than iPads for anything constructive.
iPad wins hands down as a web browser/YouTube/Facebook machine, but once you get past those uses, best option is to use something else.
16, 22, 24 or even 32" iPad Pro please. They would be a real boon for artists, illustrators, 3D modelers and the like. The alternatives out there are just not compelling enough.
Wacom Cintiqs Pros are thick, heavy, hot and sport noisy fans. The non Pro Cintiq's screens are relics that belong in the past, not on retail shelves.
Dell Canvas seems to have been left to linger.
Microsoft Surface... not really a fit in an all Apple eco-system.
Huion... well.... not sure I really ever wanna go there.
No. the iPad Pro + Apple Pencil tech is best. If they can scale it up to much larger screens I'll be buying day 1.
Wacom Cintiqs Pros are thick, heavy, hot and sport noisy fans. The non Pro Cintiq's screens are relics that belong in the past, not on retail shelves.
Dell Canvas seems to have been left to linger.
Microsoft Surface... not really a fit in an all Apple eco-system.
Huion... well.... not sure I really ever wanna go there.
No. the iPad Pro + Apple Pencil tech is best. If they can scale it up to much larger screens I'll be buying day 1.
As a musician I’d love to have a 16-17” tablet display, just so my sheet music would be 2-up at normal reading size, which cuts down having to “turn pages” all the time.
Was always hoping for an iPad Pro Plus, so totally onboard if Apple can pull it off.
Was always hoping for an iPad Pro Plus, so totally onboard if Apple can pull it off.
Your speech is nice, but in the real world Mac OS isn’t made for touch. If it was, it would be called something else no?
Yeah... that won't be happening. I tried using a Surface Studio four years ago, What an awful experience.
iPads are very successful machines, that a tiny minority of users (?) live in an echo chamber and believe their opinion to be majoritarian doesn’t mean reality will adapt accordingly to their delusions.
I don’t understand why the larger iPad isn’t just called the 13”, especially given that the new iMac 24’s screen is actually only 23.5” diagonally…
In the first edition of his new Power On newsletter for Bloomberg, Mark Gurman said Apple is exploring future iPads with larger displays, although he added that a potential release is likely at least a few years away if ever.
An excerpt from Gurman's newsletter, which also covers some reshuffling of the Apple Car team, Peloton working on a heart rate monitor, and more:The current iPad Pro comes in 11-inch and 12.9-inch display sizes. In a previous Bloomberg report, Gurman and Debby Wu said Apple is testing a new iPad Pro with a glass back that would support wireless charging for release in 2022.
Larger display sizes would help further blur the lines between the iPad Pro and the MacBook Pro, which is available with up to a 16-inch display. However, many customers still believe iPadOS does not take full advantage of the iPad Pro's hardware, and Gurman opined that Apple ultimately needs to allow Mac apps and Mac-like multitasking with more flexible arrangements of app windows on the iPad Pro.
Apple last updated the iPad Pro in April with its custom-designed M1 chip, Thunderbolt support, 5G connectivity on cellular models, a mini-LED display on the 12.9-inch model, up to 2TB of storage, up to 16GB of RAM, and more.
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How about a 16 inch iPad in some sort of aluminum shell you could flip open and a 24 inch that had a stand you could set on a desk? Those would be revolutionary!
iPads, not iPad Pro. We keep seeing complaints about being limited so I wouldn't say it's a delusional.
With iPads, the 11" suits me, especially when mobile. Larger iPads (12.9" +) is too big for me although many artists photogs and designers would probably like more real estate.
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What's the thing in her left hand?
And that's gorgeous. (The tablet!)
I was thinking that a 'computer' like the 'bar top' video games of my youth would a great idea!!! Imagine a 'computer' built into a kitchen table, and the ability to spawn different virtual sessions at each person's seat at that table. WOW!!! That would be fantastic! (And fantastically expensive, no doubt)
I find myself rather shocked at saying this, because I think that the 12.9 IPP is 'too big', but an 'iPad' that was 24 inches, or even 30 inches would be pretty interesting. It would be a work surface that one could use as they saw fit. Keeping several projects open at the same time. Moving between 'zones' as easy as moving between rooms in a physical office. The flexibility would be insane. The possibilities for creativity... Wow... And making stands for using on a table, and hanging on a wall, and rolling around like a podium, and sticking to a ceiling.
More screen size options are good. But hoping they won't discontinue the 11" models in the future. That will be a disappointment
Infinitely more useful, yet slower on any apps that happen to be on both platforms, and lacking any significant touch enabled apps. Makes a nice awkward touch screen laptop though.
They will need to re-engineer them with hand grips on either side. Like the Steve Vai JEM guitars.
I am only interested if it runs iPadOS. I just want a larger (15”-17”) display to watch movies or TV.
The “iBoard” is not just a joke anymore?
Personally I’d like a 32” iPad with no calculator app
Personally I’d like a 32” iPad with no calculator app
Apple still makes as much or more selling iPads (all versions) as they do selling all macOS systems. A small number of tech reviewers and people on sites like this want something different, but I am pretty sure that the vast majority of iPad owners prefer what they have.
Batteries that large would be very tough to build. Immense amounts of raw material and cannot go on airplanes.
I like this idea in theory, but Apple's devices have an identity crisis right now. The iPad Pro has beautiful hardware, but it is increasingly feeling hamstrung by its OS. There are simply too many things a "normal" computer -- any normal computer -- simply does better. On the other hand, whenever I go back to my MacBook Pro, I now instinctively reach for the screen. Whatever merit Steve Jobs' anti-touch philosophy had for the Mac (and I think it did have merit at the time), those principles are outweighed by our expectations that screens can be operated by touch.
Apple should either let iPads do what Macs can do or let Macs do what iPads can do. And if that results in one or of the other of these platforms losing to the other, then so be it.
Apple should either let iPads do what Macs can do or let Macs do what iPads can do. And if that results in one or of the other of these platforms losing to the other, then so be it.
That does not stop users to complain. Pro isn't pro after all.