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Questionable Claim of 30% Slimmer 'iPad Mini Air' Launching in Late 2014
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I believe battery technology is improving, but this is a case of revenue management. That's why Apple has been maintaining the full charge span of the battery around a day. Battery life reduction is a powerful motivator for customers to replace their devices. So Apple has no inventive to start out products with 48 hour or higher battery span, because in 2 or 3 years it will still manage 24 to 30 hours on a single charge.
If the device starts off at 10 to 15 hours, in 2 years the battery may degrade to 4 to 8 hours, which may not get people through a day without recharging twice. Apple then gets a new sale or battery replacement ancillary revenue. Both of which won't happen in the first case.
If the device starts off at 10 to 15 hours, in 2 years the battery may degrade to 4 to 8 hours, which may not get people through a day without recharging twice. Apple then gets a new sale or battery replacement ancillary revenue. Both of which won't happen in the first case.
I'm sorry, but the current iPad mini couldn't be any more iPad Air-like. Unless we are now using the word "Air" as a marketing placeholder nowadays.
The iPad mini always had the air-like aesthetics, it's the full size iPad that adopted the form factor from the mini.
Oh if only.
so obsessed his video speech on the 2018 iPad could go something like...
the resemblance to paper in this new guise is unapologetic. Such a design leads to reimagine the entire operating system, going further than before, we stripped out layers upon layers until what we were left with is not only functional but beautiful. iOS 12 is something fresh, something so unencumbered by form, so striking you'll look at it and say this is so far fetched so out of this world how did you do it. To overcome those limitations of such a design, we rose to challenge our preconceptions of what an operating system is, so with this our only conclusion was to take the operating system out of the iPad and put it into this (holds up a pencil)
the iPad paper goes on sale (no pencil included buy your own)
2 years later... iPad paper available in sheets
3rd year iPad paper comes with 2 staples that hold the sheets together
4th year an erase function is added
5th year the erase function is integrated into the pencil and iPad drops the name paper to become just iPad
pass round at apple head quarters freely, but don't get caught laughing haha
so obsessed his video speech on the 2018 iPad could go something like...
the resemblance to paper in this new guise is unapologetic. Such a design leads to reimagine the entire operating system, going further than before, we stripped out layers upon layers until what we were left with is not only functional but beautiful. iOS 12 is something fresh, something so unencumbered by form, so striking you'll look at it and say this is so far fetched so out of this world how did you do it. To overcome those limitations of such a design, we rose to challenge our preconceptions of what an operating system is, so with this our only conclusion was to take the operating system out of the iPad and put it into this (holds up a pencil)
the iPad paper goes on sale (no pencil included buy your own)
2 years later... iPad paper available in sheets
3rd year iPad paper comes with 2 staples that hold the sheets together
4th year an erase function is added
5th year the erase function is integrated into the pencil and iPad drops the name paper to become just iPad
pass round at apple head quarters freely, but don't get caught laughing haha
Very funny! Tears in my eyes...!
Im all for thinner devices; love the thickness of that ipod touch. Though I would like to see apple focus more on an 'iPad Pro'. Awaiting the day for an OSX tablet - 2024 cant get here soon enough!
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And a generation or two after that, it will be an empty box (so thin, you won't be able to see the product anymore). When we gripe about the empty box, 10 guys from here will jump our cases by spinning it as we simply lost the iPad that was in the box when we opened it: "break out the iElectron microscope and look around and you should be able to find it"
Dollars (licensing fees) and structural integrity as "thinner" will eventually sacrifice the latter.
Obviously, I'm in the "thin enough" camp, much preferring something like more battery to "thinner". To me thinner is like a teenager's tattoo. It has one-time shock/"look at me" value until everyone that can react has then you live with it. However, a functional gain like more battery offers a tangible, lasting benefit even if one couldn't spin "even thinner" for the 1Xth time.
Can someone post the meme of the guy opening his laptop and just shutting it right away. Cuz that's what I'm about to do. iPad mini air? seriously? it's gonna be a slow news day everyday until september.
I sometimes wish I kept my first gen iPad just so I can do a side-by-side compare of how far we've come.
That being said, I think eventually we'll see an iPad with 20-24 hour battery life in a form that's maybe 20% than the current model.
That being said, I think eventually we'll see an iPad with 20-24 hour battery life in a form that's maybe 20% than the current model.
Phil's on a mission to make Apple marketing more like Samsung marketing, remember?
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Exactly. The very definition of technological innovation. Keep the same dimension, just increase battery capacity. Completely stupid that engineers have to work to find a way to improve battery technology for a slimmer design. You're doing it wrong, Cupertino. Product design works the other way around. You have to begin with the technology first and then build a product, not product first and then create the technology for it. Sigh.
Yeah, I don't get it either. Unless they're working on some new secret super strong material to replace the aluminum, what's the point? It'll just be more prone to bending.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wtTJKtXyx_Q
It happened to the MacBook, so why not the iPad?
