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Refreshed Low-Cost iPad Said to Feature Larger Display, A14 Chip, USB-C and 5G
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Stage manager is a feature that is only reserved for Professionals and NOT professionals who bought their iPads prior to 2021 lol.
Why would anyone care about Stage Manager on an entry level iPad.
Weird way of spelling: one of the most popular ports in the history of the world, and still is today.
To me the lack of M1/M2 chip set makes this product a no go since their are features like stage manger where the M series chips are required to function. If the final product does not contain an M series chip I suspect Apple is doing this intentionally to drive up the sales of higher end tablets that have the M1/M2 chipsets.
Apple wants to drive up sales of their more expensive tablets by handicapping their cheapest iPad.
My guess is the education market gets a better rate than us consumers do since they buy the iPads in bulk.
I have an issue with your statement saying stage manager is the only feature you are going to miss out on. Since that does not even include future iPadOS updates/feature add on’s that could be disabled since it requires the performance of the M series chipsets. We are already starting to see the A series iPad chips being too anemic to power the current feature set of iPadOS to the point Apple is starting to have to disable features for a brand new out of the box product which will only get worse every software upgrade cycle.
Yes, that is quite obvious. Features such as these are always bout money and upselling
I have the 16 dev beta running on a Pro 11”. Stage Manager kinda sucks on that small screen.
The reality is most of Apple’s millions of iPad customers won’t care about Stage Manager. If email, browsing, video streaming, social media, most apps, etc. work and the device doesn’t lag like their work-provided Windows computers do, then that’s good enough.
Agree. Stage Manager also comes into its own when connected to an external display. I don’t see anyone expecting an entry level tablet to do this.
My apologies if English isn’t your first language, but it’s an idiom. Look up the phrase “dead man walking.”
“Dead” doesn’t mean it’s literally dead, (it can’t be since it was never physically alive,) but rather that if Apple’s lowest tier iPad is getting USB-C then the lightning port is done for in the sense that it’s unlike many (if any) future Apple products will be released with lightning.
There’s no way people are annoyed that this iPad won’t get the M1!? You’re kidding right? It doesn’t need the M1 and nor do the people who will be buying this iPad.
It’s their entry level iPad. And that’s okay. It may just be the perfect iPad (dependent on its form factor) for me for media consumption, web browsing, note taking, and light word processing. I don’t need an M1 chip and stage manager would be nice but for what I’ll use it for I won’t miss.
It’s their entry level iPad. And that’s okay. It may just be the perfect iPad (dependent on its form factor) for me for media consumption, web browsing, note taking, and light word processing. I don’t need an M1 chip and stage manager would be nice but for what I’ll use it for I won’t miss.
Until iPhone, the entire iPhone lineup, ditches lightning, then lightning will be shipping in dramatically more Apple products, then not. Just because you count 1 (Mac) 2 (iPad) 3 (iPhone) and think 2 is greater than 1, thats not the case at all. In terms of consumer electronic devices that are actually in active use, Lightning is still probably bigger than USB-C, or very very close behind. The sheer number of active iPhones with this port cannot be overstated. Lightning is still gigantic and will remain that way until years after Apple moves the first iPhone to USB-C.
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Yep, I understand that. It was just wishful thinking.
It is an excellent way for Apple to keep that upgrade/upsell path.
But I still think that iPadOS will continue to be hampered by the need to have some compatibility with these base iPads.
That said, it appears Apple will be splitting iPadOS behind the scenes (see Stage Manager), so hopefully that'll continue.
Yep, I get that. It goes to show how great a product the iPad has become and how much Apple nailed in its concept.
I dont disagree with your general point. But I think you’re wildly underestimating the size of the USB C market. EVERY single manufacturer apart from Apple has pretty much moved over to the input - a move they started around 5 years ago. Lightning is second, but I bet it’s comfortably second. iPhones/standard iPad/and Apple accessories do not outnumber every single electronic device from major competitors, including laptops/iPads in Apple’s own range.
Also, Apple WILL have to make changes to its lineup by 2024. All new devices sold must have USB-C:
^ from https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/8/2...n-union-harmonized-charger-legislation-ewaste
Lightning is on borrowed time pretty much from this point on.
Yeah, I mean who cares about the education market, right?
I think "Lightning port is a dead-end" gets the point across better than "The lightning port is dead".
Because it's an opportunity to have an oversized embarrassing public whine at Apple for it not running on an older less powerful non-M1 iPad. And feel better afterwards.
I would be. Low cost comes from economies of scale. Low cost comes from using the Axx chip shared with the iPhone as the product bearing the most R&D cost of the chip.