Why do you want them to go back to previous designs other than you’re just bored with the current design? Why is it better?
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New iPad Pro Renders Depict Angular Chassis and iPhone-Like Antenna Lines
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Well thats just not true lol. Well... the ones I have don't lol. Im not tripping about it but the truth is the truth lol.
OK but you’re suggesting they go back to an older design. As far as I’m concerned if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. There’s only so many ways to design a piece of glass anyway.
Of course! I'm just challenging you to reflect your inner desires. For example, I really think that design from the mockup will be very uncomfortable to hold for extended periods of time. Will it look fresh and different? Of course. Will it be practical? Maybe - that's a maybe because we don't know - not. Again, function over design. So you bought three iPads that looked the same. Why do you have an iPad? Not because of the usage? Solely for the design? What I'm saying is: why do you care? What difference does it make to you personally that they essentially all were the "same" iPad except for some internal differences? So...if the design is already "perfect" (let's just assume here), why change it?
In the overall industry, there are some designs that have been around for decades, hardly changed at all, and for good reason.
But that's just me. I'm buying tech to use it, not primarily to get "excited" over it.
Judging from your reaction I hit much closer to home than you'd like to admit...
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TV OLED isn't the same technology as phone OLED, which is more likely to be used in tablets.
Oh... I'm hoping that's not an accurate render. I like the screen but that's it. Somehow it looks 'chunky' to me. I really want the next pro, but not so sure if it looks like that...
Hopefully it's one of those things that's 'not photogenic but beautiful in person'.
Hopefully it's one of those things that's 'not photogenic but beautiful in person'.
I assume this is sarcasm.
It may be more related to thickness than the 2D layout of components. On all current iPads, the headphone jack is entirely under the bezel. In a device with minimal bezels, the headphone jack would have to extend under the screen, where there would be a little less room. Maybe there could be issues with the component pressing against the back of the screen.
I’m not defending their decision, and have no idea if my conjecture is relevant. I use the headphone jack on my iPad frequently, and would prefer the new model to retain a headphone jack.
Groovy. If only the design included the OS's integrated ability to utilize Skype as the phone service, as the iPhone version of iOS does, instead of leaving it in but just blocking the phone dialer from fully launching.
Perhaps a consistent app switcher & split pane multitasking behavior.
Perhaps extending your mac desktop onto the device via the fast USB-C cable instead of just crippling the existing 3rd party services and presenting no alternative.
Perhaps a million things.
Lol no what am I saying, what the ipad really needs is a change to the radius of the casings edges.
The iPads weakness is not its hardware.
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I'd love to see the data you're basing this on.
Perhaps a consistent app switcher & split pane multitasking behavior.
Perhaps extending your mac desktop onto the device via the fast USB-C cable instead of just crippling the existing 3rd party services and presenting no alternative.
Perhaps a million things.
Lol no what am I saying, what the ipad really needs is a change to the radius of the casings edges.
The iPads weakness is not its hardware.
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I'd love to see the data you're basing this on.
How is it not the same? I know current OLED TVs on the market use white emitters with color filters on top and all of the smaller screens have sub pixels that directly emit their color. Maybe they use a different substrate. But as far as I’m aware the fundamental tech isn’t all that different.
This is one of the differentiators:
https://www.cnet.com/news/lg-says-white-oled-gives-it-ten-years-on-tv-competition/
One of the reasons only LG make TV panels.
For now I feel losing the Home Button on the iPhone is ok. But on the iPad due to the size and weight a swipe creates I fear too much weight or torque on the wrist too often and it might feel unwieldy. I think it'd be easier to press the button from either hand than to swipe.
Serial mobile leaker Steve Hemmerstoffer shared high-resolution renders today, courtesy of tech blog MySmartPrice, that are based on supposed leaked CAD images of Apple's upcoming redesigned iPad Pro.
Reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has said Apple is working on two new iPad Pro models that take design cues from the iPhone X, measuring in at 11 and 12.9-inches.
In addition to the thinner bezels, no Home button, and edge-to-edge display of the expected iPad Pro design, the mocked-up renders depict a device with an angular chassis boasting iPhone 4-style chamfered edges, rather than the rounded chassis of the current-generation tablet.
In another seeming nod to Apple's evolving iPhone handset design, the device is shown with separate antenna strips along the top and bottom edges of the chassis, instead of the single continuous antenna lines on either side of the existing cellular models.
Elsewhere, a closer look reveals a distinct lack of headphone jack, two rows of speaker vents on either side of the Lightning port - similar to the alleged CAD images leaked last month - and two microphone ports located above the TrueDepth camera embedded in the bezel.
Also like the CAD image before it, a Smart Connector is positioned on the back of the device directly above the Lightning port, instead of the landscape orientation on current iPad Pro models.
MySmartPrice claims the positioning is related to the limitations of Face ID in landscape orientation, however well-connected Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman has said horizontal Face ID support is a feature in the upcoming iPad Pro models, which are expected to be announced this month.
The legitimacy of the additional details in the renders - and the alleged leaked CAD images they are supposedly based on - have yet to be confirmed, but Apple's scheduled media event on September 12 should reveal all.
Article Link: New iPad Pro Renders Depict Angular Chassis and iPhone-Like Antenna Lines
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Because the camera they want in the iPad is thicker than the iPad they want to make?
I still haven’t figured out that smart connector thing. It’s just too weird.
For the moment let us assume that the placement is for a portrait oriented keyboard. How exactly would that work? The keyboard itself. How would it attach to the iPad, and then become a usable keyboard in that orientation? Wouldn’t it have to rotate around sideways since keyboards are horizontal? Because if it just opened down like a flap it would be narrow and long. But how would you get something that needs to pivot around to stay in an upright position and be sturdy? And such an orientation also kills multitasking which works best in landscape.
Nothing about this is making sense. I feel like either this is wrong, or they’ve invented something completely new that will work better than we can fathom right now with our preconceived notions of how such a thing should work. Here’s to hoping for genuine surprise, but we likely won’t find anything out until October or November at the earliest.
Oh, and another option: they’re moving to full keyboard cases and the placement of the connector is irrelevant and is only convenient for placement of the internals. But usually Apple is more deliberate than that when designing hardware.
For the moment let us assume that the placement is for a portrait oriented keyboard. How exactly would that work? The keyboard itself. How would it attach to the iPad, and then become a usable keyboard in that orientation? Wouldn’t it have to rotate around sideways since keyboards are horizontal? Because if it just opened down like a flap it would be narrow and long. But how would you get something that needs to pivot around to stay in an upright position and be sturdy? And such an orientation also kills multitasking which works best in landscape.
Nothing about this is making sense. I feel like either this is wrong, or they’ve invented something completely new that will work better than we can fathom right now with our preconceived notions of how such a thing should work. Here’s to hoping for genuine surprise, but we likely won’t find anything out until October or November at the earliest.
Oh, and another option: they’re moving to full keyboard cases and the placement of the connector is irrelevant and is only convenient for placement of the internals. But usually Apple is more deliberate than that when designing hardware.
It’s a connector to hold and charge the new pencil. It’s not the smart connector for the keyboard, which is still in the same old place (render is wrong)
I am psychic.
How is wireless an improvement?the sound quality is lower by a good margin, it is far more expensive, and you have to charge. This is nothing like floppy disk to CD which is a big improvement.
“Oh it’s the future” in what way? Where is the improvement? Wireless headphones already existed so it added nothing.
