Am wondering if anyone else finds this weird? I ordered TWO iPad Pro 12.9 versions cellular and there's a 1-2 week wait and NONE available in L.A. for in store pick up?!
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Which average users? Do you get bored with a hammer? Because all these are tools, pick the tool you want to use and gen argue the veracity online.![]()
I try to, believe me, but it's hard when it seems that every new thread these days are flooded with hundreds of similar cries. Makes the reading experience here really frustrating and tiresome.Just please respect other people's opinions contrary to your own, by not calling everyone whiners & complainers, just because some of us miss the Apple of yonder.
I feel the same way about the Apple-can-do-no-wrong crowd, but I try hard to keep perspective and realize new people are always joining the discussion.I try to, believe me, but it's hard when it seems that every new thread these days are flooded with hundreds of similar cries. Makes the reading experience here really frustrating and tiresome.
I feel the same way about the Apple-can-do-no-wrong crowd, but I try hard to keep perspective and realize new people are always joining the discussion.
Generational-, cultural-, historic- gaps exist between forum members and depending on when and with what Apple "tool" anyone joined here your viewpoint of Apple differs. I started with an Apple II in 1983.
Have a read sometime of discussions prior to about 2010 and maybe you could understand where some of us long-time loyalist fans come from. Granted, there are whiners & complainer trolls that will pound Apple not matter what, I'm not in that camp. I call BS when Apple pretends to improve a product and justifies to increase prices simply by changing a colour, repackaging old tech and forcing users in a direction that is not in their best interest. All to increase AAPL's bottomline in absence of new successful product lines or even competing in old ones, such as Macs.
I do enjoy their eco-system and by and large flawless integration between all Apple devices, but that doesn't mean there aren't cracks in the wall and the weeds are growing in the previously more manicured garden. There's still a lot to like about Apple and so far I see no one better to replace TC. He may be distracted with his increasingly political agenda, but he also defends our right to privacy pretty well. At the same time, he's shaping the product spectrum to satisfy more the shareholders than end-users. This can only go on for so long and that's what I'm afraid of.
anyhow, sorry for the tl;dr but I thought I'd clarify my position as I find myself often at odds with your gushing adoration of Apple here.
The problem is that some very talkative people here complain again and again that Apple do not care (anymore) to meet their specific needs. They look like they miss the big picture because they are too self centered.Just please respect other people's opinions contrary to your own, by not calling everyone whiners & complainers, just because some of us miss the Apple of yonder.
The problem is that some very talkative people here complain again and again that Apple do not care (anymore) to meet their specific needs. They look like they miss the big picture because they are too self centered.
I am not interesed at all in this iPad, but I can understand the choices Apple makes and why they think it will serve the ecosystem. And IMHO, what serves the ecosystem is good for all iPad enthusiasts. That is why I welcome the iPad release.
The iPad is an answer to :
- the education market, with lower price and simpler to repair device. If Apple try to be serious with school, it can leed to multi user, fleet management tools and creativity tools on the app store. And it will fasten and strengthen the change from mouse and keyboard to touch.
- the huge mass of light user who own an old device. The problem is that these old devices, with old, weak hardware and old software weight a lot on the ecosystem because they represent a large portion of iPad in use and can not be excluded when developers has to design an app that covers enough of the iPad fleet. Here we have retina screen, 64bits SoC and 2GB of ram at 329$, I think it should help modernize the iPad fleet.
There are various "ascents" and "pinnacles", this is what I was thinking.iPhone 6 was the ascent? Gee, you missed a few decades there mate.
Guess you were joking as much as I was about the "spaceship". Of course it was Steve's idea.
Yes, easier to repair. Synthetic mark and conclusion usually don't tell the whole story. The iPad Air 2 glued on glass screen obviously complicate the repair.Well, it's a forum and people talk and not always agree.
This "new" iPad is an attempt to stem the declining sales of iPads in general by lowering the price, but it's also removing features, most prominently: The laminated screen, the lighter/thinner body, the anti-reflective coating. Is that worth the $70 reduction in price. Not IMHO.
Easier to repair? What? Check the pros over at ifixit.com and see their repairability score between the iPad Air 1 and 2, both are 2/10 and any repair is labelled as difficult. This new iPad is basically the body of the Air 1 with an A9 chip and better camera.
What huge mass of light users with old devices?
Many have upgraded in the past and paid a lot more than the new teaser price of $329.
No one with any iPad Air needs to "upgrade".
Also, the retina screen has been around since 2012's iPad 3 and no light user browsing the internet or reading books and emails needs to spend more $$ just because developers think they should still support it.
How exactly is old hardware weighing down the ecosystem ?
Old devices may not need to run the latest iOS or newest apps, but there's no legit reason to turn-off existing functionality for happy users of those devices or to disconnect them from Apple's cloud.
Apple could have just as well taken the iPad Air 2 and upgraded the A8X to a A9X without the additional "Pro" features, lowered the price and be done with it. They did it with the iPhone 5S -> SE.
But the Air2 satisfied too many users already and cannibilized sales of the iPad Pro that is priced much higher. So they removed the Air2, reverted back to the heaver Air 1 case, recycled the A9 processor from the iPhone line and called it "iPad". Genius!
Well that's a bit different than making a general statement about all apple stores and all customers. Thank you.Let me be specific, the users at Westfield Apple Store , on the 20th march at 17:00, I assume they were average folks . Though people say Londoners are not average.
Let me ask you this, why update a 6S hammer to a 7 hammer, almost the same hammer![]()
TC, killing of the best computer company of its kind, has betrayed his corporate founder and millions of users who paid premium money for their equipment over the last decades - to see it neglected instead of developed.There's still a lot to like about Apple and so far I see no one better to replace TC.
Aaah, but there is something specifically new. You may have heard of a little operating system called iOS 10. The iPad3 won't upgrade to it, and there's ALREADY some apps that won't run on iPad 3, either because it's still on iOS 9 or because the iPad3 just won't play.