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New iPads Might Not Launch Until Sometime in the Second Half of 2017
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Ah! Like minded Apple kit fans. =)
My fam have asked how I afford to get EVERY new iDevice. I dunno how many times I've explained that w/ the remarkable resale value, it actually only cost me a lump sum about seven years ago, & now about $100/year keeps me it the latest gear... seems like a no-brainer!
Or you could just get any one of the new iPads now and it will be still be light years ahead. Clearly you aren't concerned with speed/the latest and greatest. Why not get an Air 2 or 9.7 pro that will last you another 6 years?
Yep! Me and millions of other people.
I'll let you in on a secret; there is a world beyond your eyebrows.
We still need faster processors and software to take advantage of it, pencil support across all apps, so much still needed and any little improvement is totally welcome by me and millions of others .
Its 4X the amount of RAM in the iPad 2 you're using. You obviously aren't pushing iPads to their limits. The logic just isn't there.
My belief is that Apple's "leadership" is far more the issue than the laws of physics.
Timing is everything for peak resale value? That was true in the past but not anymore.
Resale values for iPads have sunk. That is mostly due to the regular sales going on for iPads. You would be quite lucky (I'd say it is impossible) to find a buyer for your current iPad for a price that is within $150 of a comparable next generation model.
With some of the "radical" design decisions that Apple has made recently, it is pretty risky to sell the "bird in hand" before you have the "two in the bush". For example: If the headphone jack is important to you, why would you sell the iPad you currently have that has a headphone jack only to later discover that the new iPad doesn't have one? (again, that's just an example)
Most design cycles go in 3-5 year phases. Same goes for cars too. They don't redesign every car each year.
I think if the rumoured updates are true, then Apple will probably announce the new iPad's alongside the new iPhone's in September. Also aren't Apple suppose to be moving into their new spaceship campus this year? maybe this will be the first event they hold there.
iPad Pro 9.7" is still THE iPad.
Latest/greatest. A quick Google of "best price iPad Pro" turned up TigerDirect selling it new at a whopping $30 off full (Apple) retail. I'd wager literally anything that I could get $550 out of my lightly used $700 model w/ ease. I have the original box, etc.
Well that is excellent for you... especially when one only needs to wait a few weeks before then next $150 off sale on the 9.7 Pro comes around.
I would miss them (if they were to be stopped altogether) the iPad is the best tablet on the market (in my opinion).
Oh, JHC on a pogo stick. Thank you for this. I've been using a Logitech keyboard forever and it has a home key, and the fact that the Apple keyboard didn't has bugged me forever. Believe it or not, I never considered a shortcut. While this wasn't THE reason I didn't get a keyboard, it was a big part. Don't I feel like a dork. In my defense, I did ask the salesperson about this and they simply referred me to the home button on the iPad--they should have this shortcut key in their bag of tricks when making a sale to fools like me.
Agreed!
I'm not questioning that sometimes it seems insane what people will pay. I used my Apple Pencil for 6 weeks, then listed it on eBay... including shipping, it sold for $103. Ummm, what?? Lol. It was $100 BEFORE I opened it & used it.
People are weird. I'm not saying you or I would pay close to retail for a used item that goes on sale often- but I promise you- the market is there.
Apple handheld device design cycles are not and never have been - until very recently - in the 3+ year range.
Also, cars are typically 6-8 years between body styles with a mild facelift in the middle. In any regards, a basic unibody consumer electronic device isn't a car or anything nearly as complex, so not sure why you would compare it to one.
Apple's designs are getting stale across the board.
Who needs a new ipad anyway? they're basically perfect. My iPad pro plays offline Netflix for 20 hours and is blazing fast.
What we need is an updated iOS with user accounts. please! user accounts! What windows 95 had!
What we need is an updated iOS with user accounts. please! user accounts! What windows 95 had!
Don't know what she looks like, but who wouldn't?
Talking about the iPads, I think when they came out there wasn't really any competition.
Since Apple started selling larger phones, the iPad novelty has worn off.
My 6S plus is almost as easy to use as my 2nd gen iPad and lighter, plus I have it with me anyway.
Using my iPad mostly as an alarm clock, read a few newspapers and play a few games before gong to sleep. As others posted n need to upgrade.
For everything else MBP and that at 15.4" is small enough to even watch movies in bed, especially when a new model is not available
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I have bashed Apple recently myself, but it sounds like the problems are concerned with quality and production and there has been news saying that the company making the screens were having problems, so this isn't the out of the blue, why isn't it available situation that the AirPods turned into, where a vague but soon release time came and went and there still wasn't any AirPods.
Production problems happen, they haven't promised any features yet, as long as they find and fix whatever the problem is I'm not going to go ballistic over this news.
Production problems happen, they haven't promised any features yet, as long as they find and fix whatever the problem is I'm not going to go ballistic over this news.
LOL Don't feel so bad. There are some key combos that I'm still discovering... nearly 1 year later.
I've learned that pressing and holding down the command key within an app will display a pop-up menu showing all of the available hot-key combinations for that app.
When I'm on my 12.9 iPad Pro, I'm usually in split-window, but when I'm working with a single app, I find Cmd+Tab to switch between apps far more convenient than swiping on the screen.
The only downside to learning and knowing these hotkeys is getting frustrated that more of them aren't available. I'd like some "universal" hotkeys to allow media playback control regardless of what app I'm in. One of the many little tweaks that the Apple-of-old would've included on day-1.
This is disappointing for me individually. I have a 3rd-gen iPad from 2012 which worked just great up until iOS 10. It's pretty dang slow now, frustratingly so. Instead of purchasing a device that had been out for six months, I figured I'd wait it out for another six and pick up a new one that I assumed would be introduced this March. I guess I'll wait until March just to be sure and if no new iPads are released then I'll evaluate whether I want to go ahead and upgrade or wait some more. -shrug-