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Rumored March 2017 iPad Update in Question Due to Poor Chip Yield Rates
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Looking forward to the new iPads, hope they add something that compels me to update, my iPad Air 2 has me no reason getting the iPad Pro, and the iPad 12.9 is great.
Unfortunately yes!
If the march iPad be delayed , I won't upgrade my Air 2 anytime soon
Maybe it would if they gave the Pro a Pro-iOS!
4K video, any number of games that will never turn down extra computing power.
The MacBook Pro was the only Mac to get updated this year, so not a long delay, but a normal annual update. The other Macs, though... good thing that Tim says that awesome Macs are on the horizon.
This continued prioritization of thinness over more frequent updates is a bit painful, but here I am working away just fine on a 2013 MacBook Air. I don't *need* a new MacBook at this time. Would I like one? Sure, but today's lineup, no matter how "old" they may be, is great. Just hard to put money down on a perceptually "out of date" machine, eh?
I'm still using my air first gen. Works great and have passed on every iPad since this one. But I'm ready for a new one, fingers crossed the rumors of a bigger screen but same size body comes true.
This has nothing to do with Apple. It's about TSMC and Samsung creating the correct recipe to produce 10nm at profitable yields. The move from 16nm to 10nm is a massive undertaking. In fact some have skipped 10 all together, and have started to attempt 7nm. The performance difference between a 16nm A10 and a 10nm A11 will not be significant IMO. What makes Apple's A-Series Superior is much more in their Architecture Design.
Yep, it is a bit thicker, even though approximately only 0.2 mm thicker judging by the iPhone 6S implementation versus the previous iPhone 6.
That is incorrect , Jobs compared the transition from desktop/laptop PCs to tablets with the transition from trucks to cars. And made it very clear "PCs are going to be like trucks. They’re still going to be around, they’re still going to have a lot of value, but they’re going to be used by one out of X people.”
He made it very clear that PC, like trucks today are very necessary, those who need them will continue to purchase them , no car can do the duties of a truck. On MR this quote is very much misinterpreted , trucks (PCs) are not going away, just most people do not require a computer to read email, surf the web, communicate , social media etc etc.
But what you are very clearly highlighting is a change by application developers, not iOS or the hardware. I'm a software engineer. Over the past 12 years, I've developed a framework that powers every website and web application that I develop. It has 20x more functionality today than it did 10 years ago, but consumes 1/10th of the resources.
It's up to application developers to *optimize* their software, and sadly, this is too-often omitted from the development workflow. I work in a company right now that has not cared about this over the past 5 years, and I'm left to clean up the mess. Optimization does matter.
The iPhone 6s, which was the first iPhone to have 3D Touch, also was thicker than the iPhone 6. The main culprit was the actuator that gave the tactile feedback when engaging 3D Touch.
Yep hardware has outpaced software. I just don't find myself needing to upgrade. 4K is great but there is little content right now. And really on an iPad it doesn't make a difference.
From my "research" (really, just talking to younger friends) the need for iPads are getting closer and closer to zero. The need for computers has already hit rock bottom. The only "need" for computers are with "work stuff" and POS in a wide meaning.
For private stuff, a lot of my friends just gets a bigger phone, both screen and memory wise.
They welcome the Plus size iPhones and larger storage. They see absolutely no need for an old fashioned computer, or an iPad which essentially is an iPhone with a bigger screen but you can't send SMS/MMS and make calls with and therefore useless.
For private stuff, a lot of my friends just gets a bigger phone, both screen and memory wise.
They welcome the Plus size iPhones and larger storage. They see absolutely no need for an old fashioned computer, or an iPad which essentially is an iPhone with a bigger screen but you can't send SMS/MMS and make calls with and therefore useless.
The link that gets sent around a lot is actually this video. Jobs reference to companies with markert share, and markerting taking over has some interesting comparisons to Current day apple, watch it and I'd be interested on your view
For some people it might be. And that is the point. The iPad can replace a computer for some people, even if for most people it cannot.
I would be VERY VERY disappointed if Apple won't release an new iPad Pro in march
Exactly, and those people do not need computer, and the iPad is perfect. It's the iPad Pro that is a solution to a problem that does not exist, it can be talked up all people want, it cannot replace a computer.
So using jobs analogy people keep referencing , iPad = car, PC = truck and iPad Pro might as well be a SUV... an over glorified car that kinda looks like a truck but is for all purposes useless as a truck.
If it really is iPad Air 1 thickness, I'll buy it.
- No camera hump, make it flush
- No vibrations in aluminium shell when playing music
- Put in big nice battery