All iPads October Apple Event guesses

[JohnGrey]

With a large screen iPhone 6 Plus, much lower sales this year on the rMini vs the Air, and lack of any rMini 2 leaks (lots of Air 2 leaks), I don't think they will announce / upgrade the rMini this year. Similar to the Touch vs iPhone, Apple most likely wants to keep the rMini hardware one generation behind the iPhone 6 Plus.

While you may very well be correct, I don't think we can really look at a lack of leaks as sufficient proof of non-existence. There was next to nothing about the 6 Plus, especially compared to the 6 leaks. Given that a rMini refresh would almost certainly have the same form factor, the only update with be internals and the volume button recess.

 

[KUguardgrl13]

It would be the simplest but the current Air won't just be disbanded. Not this early in the game. I still think it's gonna be a mix mash lineup for the iPads.

And, the pesky iPad 2 will still be offered which is actually cool. I had one and my daughter is still rocking with it today. It's even slated to get iOS 8!

Except that the iPad 2 has already been dropped from the lineup. It is not listed in the store as a product you can buy new. Either the current Air will stay as the cheaper option or it will get dropped and the 4th gen will keep its position as the cheap option.

 

[Nevaborn]

an iPad Pro would be a great announcement but to succeed it would have to have native stylus integration, splitscreen and connectivity such as USB. I am not sure Apple is willing to do all of these.

As far as camera on the iPad it is useful for scanning documents with apps. But then what you do with these documents and images with sending them and sharing them is slightly limited in how you can manage these files on an ipad.

 

[JohnGrey]

an iPad Pro would be a great announcement but to succeed it would have to have native stylus integration, splitscreen and connectivity such as USB. I am not sure Apple is willing to do all of these.

If such a device were released, pen input would be probable and side-by-side functionality is almost a certainty, even without it, but I can't imagine Apple abandoning a proprietary connector. At this point, with wireless syncing and cloud drives, they just have no impetus. After all, the Lightning connector, perhaps with the exception of the ones that will ship with the iPhone 6, uses the USB 2.0 standard, so clearly they're not interested in updated cable transfer.

 

[Silver78]

Nah. The best camera is the good one that you left at home. Just like when you forgot that polarizing filter when you really needed it.

Or the bellow is to big for carry... I use my sunglasses for filter in some cases