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Makes sense. It's coming with iOS 8 and a full revamp to allow file management and the much needed "opening" of iOS. :apple:

That would be amazing, if unlikely. But I too would love file management (even as rudimentary as a dropbox style system), native mouse / trackpad support and a user login system. It truly would replace the traditional idea of a Personal Computer to a huge number of people. Even more so than the little Apple tablet already has.
 
this would've happened whether Steve was alive or not...

Apple was BOUND to go this direction. it's still a simplified lineup of products. although selling the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 are a little odd, but like they say "people are still buying them."

Nah, doubt it. I saw a girl in an Apple store a few days ago trying to explain the difference between the iPad Air, the iPad 2, the iPad mini and the iPad mini with retina display to an older person.

No chance.

If you make people have to think that hard about which product is right for them, it's much less easy to make a decision, and in my view, I'd be much less likely to make an impulse buy without feeling the need to research first. That's where Steve got it right, and they're undoing all that, just as they did in the mid-90s.
 
Im not sure it is a larger iPad, What if its a OSX tablet! Think about it, why would they need that much bigger screen for IOS? It has to be for a different product. I would love a custom version OSX made for touch input on a slim thin 12" tablet!!!!! I would sell my retina pro in a heart beat
 
Can't help feeling that I'm being forced to buy dozens of incrementally, slightly different gadgets on my consumer's journey to eventually buy the huge interactive glass desktop device that Apple has sitting in a back room right now. I expect they could bring it to market next year if they were minded, but there's more money to be made by trickling out an 'evolution' of 20 iterations along the way.

Gone are the days, it seems, when inventors would change the world overnight with a single, great idea. If someone at Apple was to invent the wheel, today, they'd patent it, but then sell us really stylish square versions for the next five years, with progressively more rounded corners.
 
So MR is back to calling it "the iWatch," even though it is very unlikely to be called that, and is equally unlikely to be a watch?
 
Going to a bigger form, ~ 12" +/-, makes complete sense - and not as an OSX based system.

You have to think outside the box for usage of such a device. Personally, I know as a sales tool the iPad can be great - although for showing pictures and video, it does seem a little constrained by its size. I've tried using my 13" mba, but it's just not as easy to pass around to people.

And think about just passing around the screen portion.... A 13" iPad wouldn't be much larger... But hopefully higher resolution. I'm hoping for one. The 7" OS nice but small for regular reading. 13" will be nice as an art/music pad.
 
Nah, doubt it. I saw a girl in an Apple store a few days ago trying to explain the difference between the iPad Air, the iPad 2, the iPad mini and the iPad mini with retina display to an older person.

No chance.

Would've been so easy: You can choose between the iPad Air (big display) or the iPad mini Retina (small display). The others ones are just the rip-off models for the clueless fools.
 
I miss Steve Jobs' era, one iPhone and one iPad, simple and clean offer for customers.

The millions of people who own and love their iPad mini would disagree. As I'm sure could be said about those who would like Apple to offer a larger iPhone and those who prefer the current size.

While Apple is still raking in massive profits their growth has stunted. They have two ways to grow - get involved in a race to the bottom (though that wouldn't bring profitable growth) and introduce new products/product categories.
 
they're going to be like $799 base price with 16gb. :rolleyes:

That'd be pretty suicidal for them if it's "just" an iOS device. The Surface Pro 2 is orders of magnitude more capable and would have a far better price/value ratio - a lot of people would prefer it to an iPad line starting at $700.

For an OS X device, however, I'd be happy to shell out even $1500. Particularly if they also release a large-screen (17"+) 4K one.
 
That would be amazing, if unlikely. But I too would love file management (even as rudimentary as a dropbox style system), native mouse / trackpad support and a user login system. It truly would replace the traditional idea of a Personal Computer to a huge number of people. Even more so than the little Apple tablet already has.

Not unlikely. Nonetheless... necessary. ;)
 
If they're already in the process of test production for the 12.9" iPad then surely they will have sorted out all the production issues before it launches next Oct. That's a whole year to get it all figured out.

I'm well fed up with all the delays year after year. I'm still trying to get an iPad Air from my favourite shop but they have been out of stock from the day it launched because Apple are favouring their own stores with supply. I'm not paying £79 for an extra one year warranty when I can get a free 3 year warranty on the iPad Air elsewhere.

It's interesting that they seem to be trying to differentiate the iPad models by screen size and screen resolution rather than having the same display quality in both (or all three) models.
 
Nah, doubt it. I saw a girl in an Apple store a few days ago trying to explain the difference between the iPad Air, the iPad 2, the iPad mini and the iPad mini with retina display to an older person.

No chance.

If you make people have to think that hard about which product is right for them, it's much less easy to make a decision, and in my view, I'd be much less likely to make an impulse buy without feeling the need to research first. That's where Steve got it right, and they're undoing all that, just as they did in the mid-90s.

It's nowhere near as bad as it was in the mid-90's, when shopping for a Mac was about as painful as looking for a Dell or HP is now.

The only thing that's confusing here is that Apple is continuing to sell their previous generation devices right alongside the new stuff. Maybe not the best thing in the world for them to do, if they're going for purest simplicity, but it's hardly the end of the world, either.

Remember, having more options isn't a bad thing, so long as you're easily able to tell the difference between each device. For instance, hop on the Dell website, and you'll see 10 computers that are only slight variations of each other. If you don't exactly what you're looking for, that'd be a daunting pain in the ass to sift through. But 3 iPads? One big and powerful, one small and lightweight, and one in the middle? That's hardly an overbearing selection.
 
Nah, doubt it. I saw a girl in an Apple store a few days ago trying to explain the difference between the iPad Air, the iPad 2, the iPad mini and the iPad mini with retina display to an older person.

No chance.

If you make people have to think that hard about which product is right for them, it's much less easy to make a decision, and in my view, I'd be much less likely to make an impulse buy without feeling the need to research first. That's where Steve got it right, and they're undoing all that, just as they did in the mid-90s.

Imaginary Steve would never have tolerated an iPod Touch, iPod Classic, iPod Nano, etc. Not in a million years.

Because Imaginary Steve does whatever the imaginer wants him to do.
 
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