Given the current smart connector doesnt support general data use a snail with a floppy glued to its back is faster than the smart connector
on the current version no, but I would assume they’d release a new version with the new pinout. 4 pins means they can support standard USB signaling
But then it would stop being symmetric. You need five pins for that.
Buy their Stock, and you will be HAPPY that "Tim Crook" knows how to make money for the company.
LOL - Have you ever known Apple to make anything backwards compatible with a previous generation?!
I meant the rumors of Apple dropping the lightning connector, and obsoleting any car that doesn't have wireless CarPlay.
Or, it enables new functionality as you have a new contact to push more data through….
None of the original smart keyboards worked with the 2018 iPad Pro, which sported a new form factor.
You didn’t wait until the actual product came out? Even then, I’m surprised your decision would be influenced by something like mini-LED
What? Why? How else are keyboard accessories going to work? Excessive government regulation is highly unnecessary.
Or maybe there’s just a less nefarious reason? 🤔
For ports, not connectors. Keyboard accessories would only work well with the Smart Connector.
It covers most electronics.
Yes, precisely! 👏
👏👏👏
Do you know the data rate of the Smart Connector compared to the latest standard of Thunderbolt?
Why would they need to redesign the iPad Pro? I don’t see that happening, especially since there haven’t been any rumors about that.
Coming to the forums to complain about people commenting in the forums? Nothing better to do? I don’t care what it costs, and certainly don’t care about a minuscule price change for an infinitely better display technology that can give me near-OLED black levels. I want feature parity between both sizes of the iPad Pro line. Get over it. 😛I assume they’re referring to other keyboard accessories.
I don’t know why that wouldn’t be the case.
Where does it say that you won’t be able to use your previous accessories?
Yeah, because Tim “Crook” was the one who made this hardware decision…
Not only is your post just a bunch of completely unconfirmed suspicions, but for all we know, previous accessories could easily work with the new connector. You’re not bringing up the full picture whatsoever, aren’t you?
Yeah, agreed.
Don’t you have better things to be pissed about? Do you like price increases for such a marginal difference?
Why not? Tons of people use iPads.
That’s probably too complicated. Besides, we’re past those days now, aren’t we?
View attachment 2040180
Yes, that makes sense.
That’s a brilliant idea!Buy their Stock, and you will be HAPPY that "Tim Crook" knows how to make money for the company.
Uh, yes… 🤦♂️
It took courage!
How would that obsolete cars without wireless CarPlay? The manufacturers will just release new cars to fit with the new standards. 🤷♂️
Run for your life! 😱
Exactly as I thought! 👏
👏👏👏
No need to act so salty! 🧂
One, I expect there are some industrial/corporate uses (think, "device you carry around a sales floor/showroom", with attached card reader or whatever), and, two, having it there will make such devices more likely to get designed/built. Few people had electric lights in their homes before the houses were wired for electricity.
Very much everything you said - to add, if someone gets all bent out of shape that their 2021 iPad keyboard won't work on their 2022 iPad, my first observation would be WTF are you getting a 2022 iPad for if you have a 2021? They don't change enough year-to-year that your old one is now obsolete. And if you really feel the need for the very next year's model, and you're selling off (or giving away) your old one to get the new one, then just do the same thing with the keyboard too.
Yes, iPad Air and several successive iPad Pros all can use the same keyboards. Remember that connector isn’t new. It’s seven years old and many iPad Pros and Airs have come out since then. You didn’t have to buy a Magic Keyboard. Past keyboards all used that connector just fine. That’s a lot of sharing features between generations.
Oh, I don’t question it’s potential uses. I was pointing out that in the original article it read as if there were already “a wide variety” of accessories available despite there currently only being one.
Honestly, as someone who is thinking about getting the 11” M2 iPad Pro (ideally I’d wait to M3), I think the M2 is overkill but not only that. The heat that the M2 irradiates is bigger than the M1, because higher clock speeds and more GPU cores. So I am not sure how the M2 fits on the iPad Pro, especially on an 11” one.
Then they wouldn’t be centered. They would need 5 pins for that.
I was thinking the same thing too. It's not like this current connector has been around that long. It's only been about 3 years! If a change is really necessitated, I wish they had made the existing pin setup be more "future robust".
