Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
New Case Supports Rumors of Imminent 9.7-Inch iPad Pro With Smart Connector
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
I'm sure they would "come up in their head" to provide your needs. Their ideology of what people needs is whatever pops in their head and goes "hey...i know they would like it smaller" or "Hey, I'm sure they will love different colors."
Don't get me wrong...I don't give them credit for "legendary" ideas...but I will give them credit for beating consumers down with products that entices people.
Ipad Pro mini
know what? i could actually see it happening. if tablets are going to be the 'future of our work needs,' then the standard size would be 12".. mini would be the 9" and a plus could be the 15". and apple could relegate all things phone/phablet/small tablet sizes to cellular connection. the iPad mini with stylus would become the iPhone pro plus.
or something!
I wonder though if the speakers are better in the Pro because there's room in the Pro for four larger speakers.
I still don't understand the point of the current iPad Pro and the supposed 9.7" iPad Pro. The hardware is fine, but if it wants to compete with the Surface tablets, is needs to run OSX, not iOS . There is simply not enough functionality in iOS for it to be a serious contender to the Surface tablets. At least give us some sort of document management system on the device, that would be a nice start. I'm sure the iPad pro has its niche, but I'd love to see a product that puts my laptop OS on a tablet. That way I can get rid of my MacBook and iPad, and have one device that does both.
Just checking, you guys are being sarcastic right? Cannot tell on the internet sometimes.
I mean if it's just a digital connection rather than a standard audio jack that instead of your ipad/iphone converting the audio your headphones will need their own DAC. Which is sort of crazy. You'd have a single set of headphones with a proprietary connection that wouldn't work on any other piece of audio gear. What benefit will this give ANYONE other than Apple and their newly bought headphone business? It just means that if you want to listen to anything on your iPad/iPhone you'll have to buy some expensive and crappy sounding Beats or similar headphones with a mediocre DAC on top of the device.
Every piece of audio equipment in the WORLD uses XLR, 1/4, mini jack, bantam or similar. They aren't really going to change that. Everyone that already has nice headphones etc will just forgo buying an iphone or ipad.
I highly doubt that. iPad sales are in free fall. It'll make sense for them to move the iPad Air 2 to the price point of the iPad Air currently and keep that as the price point for the lower tier. They can then rebrand the flagship range as 'Pro' to boost its sales and appeal against the lower price point.
More so, you want to lure people to buy the Pro and then sell them more expensive accessories. So there's the Pencil, and Keyboard case, but don't be surprised if they come up with something else to sell as an accessory, in addition to those two.
That seems like it's the next natural frontier for the iPad. For most people there really isn't a compelling need to upgrade. But if you can start getting them into keyboard cases and other accessories, they may be able to goose sales.
It seems like a long shot though. It's a market that matured very quickly and without some fundamental change/functionality is going to experience very limited growth for awhile.
It may be the biggest, but its not the baddest. Or else it wouldn't run a mobile OS. Nor is it a serious contender to the surface tablets from MS, and I honestly haven't heard many people wishing the screen was bigger. It would be one thing if the screen was bigger and it ran a desktop OS, but its just an even bigger iPad. It's great that Disney animators love it, but if Apple really wants to knock it out of the part it should create a true hybrid product. If i bought the iPad Pro I'd still have to carry around my laptop, so what's the point?
The Surface doesn't contend with the Ipad Pro either despite MS claiming it does, it's not even close as a tablet, so what's your point?
Yeah, a hybrid product like that incoherent mess of a Surface, with the tablet side having no apps at all; that the Ipad PRo beat in sales right off the back. That's off course "needed" and to be emulated.
Given the fact that the major selling points for both of them are attachable keyboards and a stylus, I'd say they are competing products, and MS has a better product. I own an iPad air and use a surface pro 3 daily for work, I've never experienced the "inchoerent mess" on the surface that you speak of. Plus the fact that the iPad pro sales beat out the surface doesn't mean anything. Its a new product release vs. one thats been out for a while. Have you happened to look at how bad of a decline iPad sales were before the iPad pro?
My point is that Tim Cook said the iPad Pro will kill pc's when really its just a larger screen iPad. They said the original iPad was supposed to be the PC killer and people still carry around a laptop and an iPad. The iPad doesn't have a document management system, USB port, SD card reader or ability to install non-mobile software (among other things). Its a pipe dream to think it will kill the PC, at least in its current form. Apple won't make a hybrid device though, not because they can't, but because they'd rather have people buy 2 devices than 1. Just like you can't have multiple users on an iPad (except for schools) or iPhone.