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User Profiles - that's the only thing I'm waiting for yet Apple refuse to announce'n'deliver it :(
If they weren’t selling 10’s of millions of these every year, they might think about it. As it is, it’s one less attack vector they have to develop and test for and it doesn’t appear that enough people want it bad enough that they won’t buy the devices.

SOME won’t, but it would have to be hundreds of millions that won’t.
 
I was tempted, but no repositioned Apple logo is a dealbreaker.
You know how much money it cost to remake the mold?

Apple is cheap enough not to spend an extra $0.005 ct to add a second drop of water in the vapor chamber of the iPhone 17 Pros or add iPad engraving on the iPad.

Let alone repositioning that logo.
 
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  • Apple's custom C1X chip for cellular configurations. With this modem, Apple says the new iPad Pro achieves up to 50% faster cellular data performance than its predecessor, and power efficiency is also improved. "
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Amen to the max!!! I abhor the mass and clunkiness of the "Magic" keyboard that is anything but...Steve Jobs would roll over in his grave over this monstrosity. The lack of the "Smart Folio" keyboard has kept me from upgrading.
The Folio that put the part that sits on a surface, on the screen?
 
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Fast charging for the iPad is great. Expecting slightly better battery life on cellular models due to C1X chip. The increase in RAM for 256/512 is also good. Hopefully that will help to prevent frequent reloading of Safari tabs.
 
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"50% charge can be reached in around 30 minutes for the 11-inch model"

Kind of seems to track with my M4 11" or something I never though of. Just assumed it charges as fast as possible when connected to higher wattage.

Guess it is slower? 🤷🏻‍♂️ never saw any metrics for it.

edit: just read elsewhere that someone tested and the M4 11 does it in around 40mins so 10min improvement
 
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I’ve noticed that Safari on Mac and Safari on iPad are somewhat different.
Safari on iPad still doesn't feel very satisfactory.
 
People who complain about 160 instead of 320 for the WiFi 7 is not the important thing that was gimped. With 320 there is only 3 non overlapping channels in the us. Which would only be used at home. With 160 you will still get over 1gbps , in real world most won’t use more than 80/160 in hotels, offices etc.

The big thing was not doing 4096 qam and only single mode with MLO. But that failure was really on the RFC because they are optional on the standard. So technically they are following the standard. Apple is not the only one who gimped WiFi 7
 
I'm not sure if I'm the only one experiencing this but on iOS and iPadOS devices I have never really noticed RAM bumps. I have the M2 iPad Pro, which has 8GB of RAM and I have tabs and apps having to refresh/reopen all the time, with all kind of apps (I know there are apps that are made to refresh constantly for security or other reasons). So I think that that added 4GB of RAM can easily be overrated, unless it can actually be used to good effect for intensive single tasks like exports (don't know for sure).

And I have had the same experience with iPhones, I have an old iPhone 13 here which I use to read stuff in my bed while my 17 is charging sometimes. Both devices keep as many apps in memory while my 17 has 4GB more.

I think that in some strange way RAM is more useful on iPhones because apparently the device needs it for processing images fast enough. To run those calculations of those camera features.

I definitely noticed a difference going from a 4gb phone to 8gb then the same to 12gb.

Apps, browser pages etc all stay in memory much longer so reload less. I don’t play games on iOS so not sure what the differences would be like there though.
 
The WiFi 7 spec only gets half the WiFi 7 speed because of no 320 mhz channel. The cellular, meh, and the ram if you had a M4 with 1-2 TB you already have 16 GB ram.
If you had ANY M-series iPad Pro with 1TB/2TB you already have 16GB. I have 16GB/1TB on both my M1 and M2 iPad Pros, for example.
 
They are occupied renaming Apple TV+ to Apple TV.
I belive Apple eventually will release something akin to "Apple Unified Screen". Doesn't matter what you look at, it will all look at feel the same. The screen will know who you are and display what you saw last or on last device. And all devices will be able to do exactly the same things, run the same software, Apple TV or iPad or iPhone or MacBook or Apple Wall or Home or Apple Whatever. They'll use Matter to seamlessly overlap everything and use multiple processors to share the processing load...
 
I'm not sure if I'm the only one experiencing this but on iOS and iPadOS devices I have never really noticed RAM bumps. I have the M2 iPad Pro, which has 8GB of RAM and I have tabs and apps having to refresh/reopen all the time, with all kind of apps (I know there are apps that are made to refresh constantly for security or other reasons). So I think that that added 4GB of RAM can easily be overrated, unless it can actually be used to good effect for intensive single tasks like exports (don't know for sure).

And I have had the same experience with iPhones, I have an old iPhone 13 here which I use to read stuff in my bed while my 17 is charging sometimes. Both devices keep as many apps in memory while my 17 has 4GB more.

I think that in some strange way RAM is more useful on iPhones because apparently the device needs it for processing images fast enough. To run those calculations of those camera features.
I can tell you I used to have Safari tab reloads constantly on older iPads with lower RAM until I got the first M1 Pro with 1TB/16GB which largely ended the issue.
 
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