The iPad is doomed and dead! R.I.P! D: D:

[Jef88]

Please........ Th iPad isn't death, the iPad marked is saturated because a lot of people already has an iPad and there is no need to upgrade yearly.

There is millions of iPads running everyday, no way the iPad is death. Apple should release a new iPad every 2/3 year and accept the sales will never near those of the iPhone. A yearly IPad upgrade just don't work. Especially with the iPad pro and rumoured Air 3. The A9X is a fiercely strong processor that just is way to overpowered for IOS. Or should we say IOS now days is onderpower for the hardware it runs on.

What apple should do is make adjustments to IOS so it will functional better on their tablet line. The iPad line has way to less advantages over the IPhone in IOS support.
The iPad screen size isn't utilized the way it could be, with reason people call it a blownup IPhone.

 

[mrklaw]

I think as modern ultrabooks are finally reaching down into more mainstream pricing (rather than the very premium pricing they had a couple of years ago), then that might have people pause on buying an iPad and instead buy a hybrid or thin&flight ultrabook as it'll do everything and still be nice and portable - vs the big lumpy laptops they used to have. Bear in mind most people had the classic 15.6" 1366x768 laptop with never-used DVD writer weighing 5lbs

I think that may also be behind apples 'pro' pitch - trying to persuade people that the iPad can be a replacement for their laptop. I don't think iOS is quite there yet though, but hopefully Apple are working on that.

 

[s2mikey]

Dead? Nah - cmon. But as others have eluded to there are other devices out there like big phones, hybrid laptops, etc, etc that are cutting into sales. Then you add in the fact that most iPad buyers wait several years before buying another one and theres the problem. They'll never die off though. No way.

 

[Michael Goff]

I agree. I bought the iPad Pro for drawing with the Pencil. That's basically the only thing it does well besides content consumption. But all the "pro" apps are very dumb. Microsoft Office apps are actually among the better ones. The Adobe apps are mostly useless, all one can do with them is scribbling and drafting. I tried Coda for HTML coding and it lacks most of the basic features of a decent text editor. And to be honest how can a $10 app be as good as one that costs $99 on the Mac? I am ready to pay more for good iOS apps, but I don't see developers making them.

iOS now on iPad it's like Windows RT. Apple has to do something about that if it wants to keep the iPad alive.

I take it you didn't actually use a Surface RT and didn't know the actual problems with the platform.

 

[Robnsn2015]

I take it you didn't actually use a Surface RT and didn't know the actual problems with the platform.

Let's see. The iPad Pro has been available since mid-Novembe

What I find curious is that at the point of time the iPad Pro was released till now (3 months?) the poster was apparently expecting that:

• something major would happen to iOS
• computers (laptops?) would much more expensive
• iOS would somehow be "become more desktop oriented as less locked in" - I assume either more OS X or Windows like.
• iOS would provide support for mouse control.

Either that or the poster was lazy and bought the iPad Pro on a whim without actually doing any research and is actually now regretting the carelessness of that decision.

EDIT: It could be a gift though, otherwise there's no good reason why the poster would buy it and then complain about the points listed...

Sounds like the person is a child or adolescent who received and iPad Pro as a gift instead of what s/he really wanted.

 

[throAU]

Having an iPad, a surface pro 4 and a MacBook Pro in my possession, I spend a lot more time using the iPad than reports of its death would suggest.

 

[Michael Goff]

Let's see. The iPad Pro has been available since mid-Novembe


Sounds like the person is a child or adolescent who received and iPad Pro as a gift instead of what s/he really wanted.

I'm actually pleasantly surprised at the pace that a lot of apps are being updated.

 

[eltoslightfoot]

I'm actually pleasantly surprised at the pace that a lot of apps are being updated.

I agree. Most apps that I use have been updated, or are about to be updated. Then there is Facebook. But once you just get used to it, even the non-optimized programs aren't that big of a deal.

 

[iPadDad]

About 300 million iPads have been sold, I don't think apple are going to say oh well let's can it becuase sales aren't as high as when we launched it. iPads have a much longer life cycle than phones for instance.

 

[Michael Goff]

I agree. Most apps that I use have been updated, or are about to be updated. Then there is Facebook. But once you just get used to it, even the non-optimized programs aren't that big of a deal.

Maybe it's because I don't use Facebook and actually have extremely low expectations for their app in the first place?