I have to say, i really like iPad Pro, but the OSX is just not right for it. They should make an Ipad OS, cause MacOS will never come to iPad, so that we could really use it for work, and not just as an bigger iPhone.
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Three New iPads Said to Launch in March, Including Bezel-Free 10.9-Inch Model
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I hope Apple manages to add 3d touch to the new iPad Pro lineup next year. Fingers crossed.
Well, the pound dropped after Brexit, maybe the dollar drops now due to Trump.Sorry, no. In the UK, they will be priced higher than £300 over the current iPads.
They can make all the changes to its appearance that they can possibly think of, but until it has a more useful operating system (with access to the file system!), they are missing out on a huge market. If they would have done it sooner, the MS Surface wouldn't have gained near so much ground.
Yeah, this makes no sense having an odd-ball model without bezel.
If true, so much for simplifying their offerings. Especially when you add the non-pro lineup, and iPad mini as well.
Their laptop lineup still needs to tidy up, where the MBA is the odd step child.
Exactly. I don't how useful that extra screen space will be if your hand covers part of it when holding the tablet.
iOS is in desperate need of more tablet-specific functionality as at the moment it is essentially like a large phone in many ways.
I'd love to know what Apple's vision for iPad is. You can imagine the kinds of tech they'd like to add to the Watch, or the iPhone, and who here doesn't have a wishlist of Mac updates? But an "iPad of the future"...?
Following the iPad 2 and iPad 3 announcements, it felt like we were on a course for more and more Mac stuff coming to iPad. I'd have guessed in 2012 that choosing between an iPad and a Mac in 2016 was almost solely based on form factor preferences.
Not that iPads would run OS X, but that you'd be able to run iOS version of Final Cut Pro X, Photoshop, Logic, etc which were as feature rich as the OS X or Windows versions, albeit designed for the iPad's UI.
Following the iPad 2 and iPad 3 announcements, it felt like we were on a course for more and more Mac stuff coming to iPad. I'd have guessed in 2012 that choosing between an iPad and a Mac in 2016 was almost solely based on form factor preferences.
Not that iPads would run OS X, but that you'd be able to run iOS version of Final Cut Pro X, Photoshop, Logic, etc which were as feature rich as the OS X or Windows versions, albeit designed for the iPad's UI.
I sold my iPad and don't find them all that useful since I went with a 7 plus and new MacBook. I honestly was hoping to go iOS only sometime soon, but iOS 10 came and went with no real changes to the iPad. I have come to accept that it's just a big iPhone, yet less optimized. I'll wait and see in a couple years.
Major new iOS revisions don't come in March. Besides, what are you looking for in an iPad variant of iOS?
Wrap this round a brick and bounce it off Cook's head.
Not really about thinness but ergonomics. A thin slab that's unbendable is not ergonomic to hold for long periods.
My very first thought. Is this technology software, or hardware based, or both? My SE does a very bad job of this currently.
I am intrigued that they are rumored to keep the headphone jack. It means that my current iPad Pro 12.9" might not be my last iPad.
I don't really know what they could do to make me want to upgrade though. I've pretty much given up on Apple improving and differentiating iOS on iPads so that I could replace my Macbook Air. And to be honest I've kind of accepted it. I'm much more productive using the iPad as a legal notepad and e-reader and saving other work for my macbook.
I don't really know what they could do to make me want to upgrade though. I've pretty much given up on Apple improving and differentiating iOS on iPads so that I could replace my Macbook Air. And to be honest I've kind of accepted it. I'm much more productive using the iPad as a legal notepad and e-reader and saving other work for my macbook.
If my 2 year experience with the Sharp Aquos Crystal bezel-less smartphone is any indication of what using a bezel-less tablet will be like then...
I had absolutely no problems handling the bezel-less phone... with one hand or two. As for accidental touches, I only experienced that 3 times in the first 2 weeks of ownership, after that... no problems.
Although I've moved on to an iPhone SE, I still use my Aquos Crystal daily as a portable media player. It is even better in that usage than it was as a phone.
As for the benefits... it offers maximum screen size in minimal external dimensions. A 7.9 bezel-less iPad Mini would be even more portable without sacrificing screen space. Taking photos with a bezel-less device is surreal in that the device disappears. Watching videos on such a device offer a similar immersive experience.
Having said that, going bezel-less is not a universally applicable superior experience. Some will love it. Others will hate it.
I would love to have a bezel-less iPad... but would rather the devices SHRINK in size to accommodate the current screen sizes rather than expand the screen size to fit the current physical sizes.
Yay! More stupid toys instead of tools from our favorite Pro company.
I think part of it is, that they want their devices to look beautiful and they dont really care what they look like when you use them (as in a required iphone/ipad case, dongles & adapters).
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