My iPhone 6 Plus is fast and smooth with excellent build quality.
Never seen a bended iPhone 6 Plus with my eyes (except people on YouTube voluntarily bending their device).
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The iPad Air 2 is the best product, Apple has ever done.
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My iPhone 6 Plus is fast and smooth with excellent build quality.
Never seen a bended iPhone 6 Plus with my eyes (except people on YouTube voluntarily bending their device).
This will be the first year I haven't upgraded my main iPad. There is no upgrade I can think of that would deem a good reason for me to upgrade at this time so I'm sticking with my Air 2.
I skipped last years mini 3 though as the 2 was just as good for me so I will be upgrading that one provided it has 2GB Ram and improved screen.
I skipped last years mini 3 though as the 2 was just as good for me so I will be upgrading that one provided it has 2GB Ram and improved screen.
Absolutely not! You simply enjoy an Apple product.
My first Tab was a Samsung. Worked fine at the beginning and then I started having freezings, reboots etc. I got tired. Life with an iPad is easier, though I don't use it too much.
I've had mine for about an hour, and it really is great. I upgraded from a 1st Gen Mini, and I owned an iPad 2 before that. This Air 2 is so fast in comparison, and the screen is unbelievable. Great product.
Have you had a look at the performance of the iPad Air 2 on Geekbench, vs your current laptop?
If forced to make a choice I rather keep the 6 Plus. More usage each day, much more compact and light. Guess those things make it the best Apple product over the Air 2.
There are several good candidates for "best" Apple product -- the 1984 Macintosh (or the 128k revision thereof) is probably my choice. That said, the iPad 2 certainly is one of my favorites. The screen is off-the-hook amazing and it really strikes a nice balance between portability, performance, and battery life.
Oh, and I very much use mine for real work. I'm a lawyer and I use mine daily to mark up cases in PDF (via PDF Pro and iAnnotate). Reading cases is vastly easier on an iPad than on a computer (because of the great screen, form factor, and availability of portrait orientation). The iPad 2 has made a time-consuming part of my job into a real pleasure. The iPad version of Microsoft Word and Excel helped as well. I realize there are many Microsoft haters here, but for what I do, the combination of Apple hardware and Microsoft software is an excellent one.
Oh, and I very much use mine for real work. I'm a lawyer and I use mine daily to mark up cases in PDF (via PDF Pro and iAnnotate). Reading cases is vastly easier on an iPad than on a computer (because of the great screen, form factor, and availability of portrait orientation). The iPad 2 has made a time-consuming part of my job into a real pleasure. The iPad version of Microsoft Word and Excel helped as well. I realize there are many Microsoft haters here, but for what I do, the combination of Apple hardware and Microsoft software is an excellent one.
I bought the Air 2 when it first came out and then about 2 months ago I sold it. Less than a month later I was back to buy it again. That was 31 days ago. Yesterday I had Best Buy price match their online sale and took $125 off.
Love my 6+ also. Can't see myself upgrading especially now that the carriers have moved away from the subsidy model.
Love my 6+ also. Can't see myself upgrading especially now that the carriers have moved away from the subsidy model.
I agree that the iPhone 6 was a disappointment with the specs. I probably would've gotten one if the specs were closer to the Air 2's.
As for the vibrating, I wouldn't say that subtracts from the greatness at all
it really doesn't bother me
I remember when we got the first Mac in our engineering office back in '84-'85 - we were amazed at the new look in computing (I wrote my first s/w in 1971).
Ok lets break this down.
Out of millions and millions of iphone 6+ sold only about 4 in total had bending issues. So that means the build quality is questionable? Ok so i guess if a Mercedes Benz issues a recall on S550 because of faulty whatever then i guess the S550 sucks because it has questionable build quality? I mean come on seriously?
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Underpowered and underspecced? How? I have had mine since launch and have had no issues doing whatever tasks I had to do on the phone, no problems doing actually....anything? Underspeeced? based off what? 4 gig of ram shipped on samsung phones? well maybe its cuz theyre os blows. iOS works perfect on my 6+ dont know what your talking about everything is pretty much buttery smooth. and to call it the worst product Apple has made is going pretty far. i can name about 20 other products that are worst than a 6+....you must be delusional.
What are you folks doing for cases? I'm thinking the Apple Smart Cover might be the least offensive, in terms of extra weight/bulk. But I'd hate to get an Air 2 and turn it into an iPad 4 (fat and heavy) with the wrong case.
Also, what can Apple conceivably do to make an Air Pad 3 (if they release one) better? My usual strategy is to buy a refurb when prices drop with the annual new releases (2 drops to $399, refurb drops to $329). That wouldn't have been a good strategy last year, since the A8x was a bombshell of a new processor, nothing I would have ever expected after just rolling out an A7 and (apparently) kissing jazzed up "x" series graphics goodbye. I'm thinking that won't happen this year, but wonder what you think.
Also, what can Apple conceivably do to make an Air Pad 3 (if they release one) better? My usual strategy is to buy a refurb when prices drop with the annual new releases (2 drops to $399, refurb drops to $329). That wouldn't have been a good strategy last year, since the A8x was a bombshell of a new processor, nothing I would have ever expected after just rolling out an A7 and (apparently) kissing jazzed up "x" series graphics goodbye. I'm thinking that won't happen this year, but wonder what you think.
I use a red Smart Cover.
Works well. Neat, light and easy to take off and put on.
The Air 2 is a superb iPad. The four things that are a disappointment are the lack of a mute switch, the vibration from the speakers, the daily soft reboots in iOS 8 and the poor battery life compared to my iPad 2. Perhaps iOS 9 will help with the battery.
The speed is great. Looking forward to split screen.
People still use those? lol. Flash drives are way better. A USB 3 or micro port would be great so we could use a flash drive. If it had a floppy drive then it would be a laptop and not a tablet. But that would be sweat if they could pack that into the iPad. A full on OS would be great as well. Might as well dream big.
OK, I can get a great trade in ($270) on my 128 iPad Air toward a $699 Air 2 (at Simply Mac). OR get an additional 128Air 2 at Best Buy during their "Black Sale" today at $574, and give the air away to a relative that I am not quite sure will appreciate it. Don't know whether to be the nice uncle or watch my wallet. What would you do?
I would trade in the Air towards an Air 2 and buy a Mini for them instead.
64bit, iOS9, and great applications.. It's a delicious experience. I have no regrets investing in this laptop replacement.
I still have my 1st gen iPad, which I used throughout a university degree writing over 65000 words, and a 2012 macbook air. we recently got a mac mini as a family computer, which has been great. I now hardly use the air, unless one of the kids is on the mini, and am thinking of donating the air to my eldest daughter and buying an iPad air 2 for myself. The iPad 1 is really only good for watching video on as safari constantly crashes and is really slow anyway. So what'ya think, should I bite the bullet and get the air2? or stick with the macbook air(which is rarely used) and lump it with the ipad1. NOTE: the iPad 1 has fared extremely well and is only hampered by the os version it is on, I would feel comfortable that the air2 would last me a long time and be more than enough for my needs.
I think Apple learned with the Air 1 and mini 2. Probably the biggest duds they ever produced, they couldn't even run iOS 7 smoothly. Now with iOS 9, the app switcher even runs at 20FPS. Lovely. On top of that, the app and page reloads. Unacceptable. These iPads would be incredible for a casual user who doesn't notice that kind of thing or simply don't care about it, but for the nit picky tech geeks like me, it is an absolute and total nightmare.
Can't wait to bail on this mini 2. Air 3 it will be for me. Hopefully that isn't a dud, because Apple seems to be following an "every other iPad" sort of cycle. Hopefully the A8X's power has reached the point where any successor can easily handle any new power-hungry change Apple throws at it. Like changing to an @3x display, more graphic intensive OS iterations... Etc.
Can't wait to bail on this mini 2. Air 3 it will be for me. Hopefully that isn't a dud, because Apple seems to be following an "every other iPad" sort of cycle. Hopefully the A8X's power has reached the point where any successor can easily handle any new power-hungry change Apple throws at it. Like changing to an @3x display, more graphic intensive OS iterations... Etc.
Yeah, I picked up the Air 2 at Best Buy's sale and it is a joy. I was in your shoes with the mini 2, which transitioned to my wife, and man this Air 2 is so much smoother and a real treat to use. I also feel like Apple has been on an "every other" cycle with their iPads. Maybe they break that this year, but I just have a feeling they will throw an A9 in the iPad Air 3 and mini 4 and call it a day (essentially making it like the Air 1/mini 2 generation). If the A9 is just a slight improvement on the A8X I wouldn't be surprised because this thing is crazy good!