New iPads Might Not Launch Until Sometime in the Second Half of 2017

[acctman]

like many iPad users, you really do not need a new iPad every year. Apple can easily get away with ever 2yrs releasing a new iPad no need to update every year.

 

[ShinySteelRobot]

The whole "Pro" thing has gotten ridiculous. Just call them the iPad mini, iPad, and the iPad plus.

Can't happen. Sure, it'd be symmetrical with the iPhone vs iPhone Plus. However, Apple must call the larger iPad a "Pro" and not a "Plus" (sorry to be crude here) because Apple doesn't want women saying they've got a "plus size (i)pad". Seriously.

 

[Naimfan]

I've just started to consider replacing my iPad 3 (original retina model). It's been fine for reading, surfing, etc., and has only recently started (probably with iOS 9) to feel slow.

I think that's the problem - for what iPads do, they're made so well there's not much reason to replace one until it either breaks or just is too slow to be tolerable.

 

[The Game 161]

like many iPad users, you really do not need a new iPad every year. Apple can easily get away with ever 2yrs releasing a new iPad no need to update every year.

you don't need to update your phone each year either but alot do.

 

[Jnesbitt82]

So Digitimes is the only source for this info so far? Aren't they the ones that predicted Apple 32" TVs a few years ago? How reliable are they?


Also, I found this info on them.
https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/digitimes-com/

 

[RichardDue]

Apple's new line of iPad models might not launch "until the second half of 2017," according to sources in the upstream supply chain speaking with DigiTimes. The new 9.7-inch iPad is predicted to enter mass production sometime in Q1 2017, while the 10.5-inch and 12.9-inch iPad models will begin production in Q2 of this year. All of the new iPads are described as still being in the "planning" phase.

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My publishing house has made the switch from paper to digital on all but the very last stage of proofing.
Our editor uses an iPad 2 for this function. I'd expand my use—and buy two big iPad Pros tomorrow—if Apple made it easy for me to make a backup clone of the iPad's SSD drive (like with SuperDuper! or something).

The documents we use are too sensitive for cloud backups, and my internet is much slower than backing up from one SSD to another.

I don't own any computers that aren't Macs (and haven't for the last 17 years), but I see two Microsoft Surface tablets in my near future. I've been putting off the purchase. I kept thinking when Apple's Pro tablets came out that Apple would see making something as simple as backups as a pro feature. Nope.