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Sam's Club Begins Taking iPad Pro Pre-Orders, Citing November 13 Launch
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WTH - Apple please just open pre-orders or give us date. Arrrgh
The weight per se isn't the issue, it is whether it will be awkward to use for games, browsing, etc
I don't have to necessarily hold it for reading and browsing or watching video on it but for games I would expect I would. I have very limited experience with a tablet this size, only the Samsung Pro in Best Buy fooling with it and certainly it raised a flag.
I don't have to necessarily hold it for reading and browsing or watching video on it but for games I would expect I would. I have very limited experience with a tablet this size, only the Samsung Pro in Best Buy fooling with it and certainly it raised a flag.
The 13th is my birthday, so I'll take that as a sign. Sam's only has the 32 G left. Wonder how many they had for pre-order.
The pricing for those accessories certainly raises at least a flag in purchasing those. But some would say if you aren't going to buy those then you may as well not buy the Pro.
If you go by Apples other products at the same pricing:
IPad Pro starts from $799
The base model Mac Mini with 16GB Apple ram is also $799
In the UK the Mac Mini with 16GB Apple ram is £639
The iPad Pro 128GB WiFi is $949
The iPhone 6S Plus 128GB is also $949
In the UK the iPhone 6S Plus 128GB is £789
The top range WiFi and cellular 128GB iPad Pro is $1079
The top of the range Mac Mini with the Magic Mouse 2 is $1078
In the UK the same top end Mac Mini and Magic Mouse 2 is £864
That should give you a rough idea I guess? I won't be surprised if you can add on an extra £30 to the top two iPad Pro prices I've put here.
Pro ?
Doctors, Lawyers, Architects, Artists, Graphic Designers, Musiciens, Photographers, Writers, Teachers, Salespeople.....the larger screen, the pencil. That's the "pro" part.
It's a tablet. It's not a PC, with a PC operating system, with apps written for PC's with a mouse, trackpad etc. That's the iPad.
iPad Pro
You should Google "marketing". I have no idea why people get worked up over product names.
You haven't really explained why in your opinion it is not "pro", so why is the "burden of proof" on others? The only thing you mentioned that might justify your "half-baked" comment is that it runs iOS, not OS X. And that is not something that I consider as a valid argument against professional usage. Sure, a software developer will not work on an iPad Pro, but there are enough other jobs where an iPad Pro can be very useful.
I hear this a lot, but I'm always kind of curious what else people want on the home screen? The nature of iOS is such that pretty much everything is done in apps which one way or another are going to occupy the entire screen. There is no real "desktop" exposed like in traditional windows based OSs.
I don't even think it looks bad as is. They could allow more icons but that would look worse IMO - like people whose desktops are packed with icons for files and applications they've never bothered to organize.
Widgets and such have always seemed kind of pointless to me because you can just open the relevant app things are so quick on iOS. Only addition I would like to see would be, in the event Apple introduces a file system, that could be another "pane" on the homescreen you could navigate. I would be surprised if Apple actually did it that way though.
Apple wants to sell as many as possible as soon as possible, you know, it's called profits. Not everyone has an Apple store handy.
Wondering the same thing. Apple hates having their thunder stolen. You have to think that there are some angry phone calls being made.
Retailers break street date for selling on new releases in the past alot and I doubt much ever happened.
You could either do another row of apps, or just increase the size of the icons. You have this massive, beautiful screen, yet the app icons are minuscule. The spacing just seems unnatural.
I think you're numbers are pretty much spot-on, although I'm not sure about price comparisons across product categories.
Look at US$ prices within the same product family then use the same percentage jump:
Base-line iPad Air 2 (16gb) is $499
Base-line iPad Pro (32gb) is $799
That's about ~160% jump
So
Base-line iPad Air 2 (16gb) is £399
x ~160%
Gives ~£639 for the Base-line Pro
Double check with existing product lines for comparison:
iPad Mini 4 (16gb) is ~80% price of iPad Air 2 (16gb) in both US$ and £.
Apple TV 4 (32gb) is ~217% of Apple TV 3rd Gen in both currencies.
Use the same formula to get these approx iPad Pro prices:
iPad Pro (32gb) £639
iPad Pro (128gb) £759
iPad Pro (128gb+Cellular) £859
We'll know in a few days hopefully and don't put it past Apple to 'round up' the prices a tad. I'm fully expecting to be wrong.
get a macbook
you're trying so hard to make a touchscreen work with OS X, but it just doesn't work.
Q: What's the difference between a MacBook Air and a MacBook Pro?
A: the Pro has a higher spec that gives it the capability to run Pro-Grade applications as intended.
The wrong answer: the Pro runs a completely different operating system.
I would get rid of the paging of the home screen and optin for an apple watch home screen. i don't think i've ever swiped 10 pages of apps to get to my app.
I would hope so. This doesn't make sense to me, unless Sams Club just made up their own random date. I've never seen third party retailers release a date before Apple.
I pre-ordered a 64 GB iPhone 6s from Sam's Club during the pre-order period, and have yet to receive it. Since I was number 1 on my local store's pre-order list, I don't believe it is a "pre-order" so much as a "dibs" on whatever allocation Apple chooses to ship to Sams Club. Should the iPad Pro be handled the same way, you would be much better off waiting for Apple to announce pre-orders and get it directly from them.