iPad isn’t a Newton. I know people love to make this connection but it just isn’t accurate.
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iPad isn’t a Newton. I know people love to make this connection but it just isn’t accurate.
We can always remember how much Steve Jobs despised the Newton, it was was one of the first things killed as soon as he returned in 1997. Perhaps that was due to it being a project spearheaded by John Sculley, and released in 1992.
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Me too. Be nice to have a bump to 120Hz too but not sure GPUs are up to that too.
One cannot predict that absolutely. As much as the 27" inch iMac fans miss that 5K size, the 24" model is still a 4.5K screen although a little smaller (3.5") its will display a resolution that is still noticeable larger then a 16" MBP. 2240x1260 (iMac) versus 1728x1117 (MBP)
The M1 only lacks the M3"s AV1 hardware decoding, and ray tracing for GPU and the ability to add more RAM then 16GB. But the Base M3 adds the same 24GB Ram Max that the M2 had also. Still either 24" iMac is more then sufficient for a lot of tasks a consumer would make use of, and its certainly more transportable as far as everything can be wireless where ever you stick it at a business or a house.
As for 8K screen yes thats true, but I wouldn't rule out larger screen thats are 5K or 6K in the future for iMacs. It also depends on the screen panel type. A lot of this depends on their marketable popularity.
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I guess I'm sort of looking forward to the Vision Pro "Reality Internet Show". Will it be a drama? a Thriller? or maybe a Comedy... time will tell.
A doubt and a rhetoric question.
12.9 Air or 11 Pro? now that the OLED displays are finally arriving I don't know what to do.
When will Apple improve the repairability of their products? hope in 2024
12.9 Air or 11 Pro? now that the OLED displays are finally arriving I don't know what to do.
When will Apple improve the repairability of their products? hope in 2024
Personally, I’m eyeing the new 13 in iPad Pro to replace my 12.9 Pro. I’d need to see some performance specs and hands on before being able to evaluate the 12.9 Air.
As a man fortunate enough to have a career at Apple, I used to be obsessive about announcements of any new device, or new generation of an existing device. As a retired old man, most of the announcements leave me feeling unmoved or worse, unimpressed. There's no way Apple will ever find another Steve Jobs, with his charismatic and "insanely great" vision and enthusiasm! The iPhone can take Apple to $3 trillion, but can it take them to 4, now that virtually anyone who wants one already has it? Remains to be seen, but I'd rather see the next great consumer product than incremental improvements existing ones. Yes, the VisionPro may become that product, but not at $4,000+ (after taxes: even more with Rx lenses and AppleCare+). The buy-in at this juncture is just too steep for market penetration at the levels of the phone, tablet or computer. It will really have to come WAY down in price to achieve that.
The Vision series is the $4 trillion product, and a combination of AI and other random stuff (Apple car possibly?) will give them another trillion. That's my guess.
Their are many ways form Apple to still grow, but selling even 500K Vision Pro @ 4K USD is small potatoes. (2 Billion USD)
If the iPhone is already out there to the masses it will need to be something a lot more for the masses then that. Consider Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere. Thats equal to selling 6.575 Million Vision Pro at @4K.
Want to speculate how many they would need to sell to approach a Trillion dollars product?
The vision series will come down in price. Apple's goal is to eventually have it equal with (if not greater than) the iPhone.Their are many ways form Apple to still grow, but selling even 500K Vision Pro @ 4K USD is small potatoes. (2 Billion USD)
If the iPhone is already out there to the masses it will need to be something a lot more for the masses then that. Consider Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere. Thats equal to selling 6.575 Million Vision Pro at @4K.
Want to speculate how many they would need to sell to approach a Trillion dollars product?
We’ll see. Apple isn’t typically in the habit of bringing the price of things down.
Which it can never be because it goes on your face. And no, it won’t ever be the size of glasses. As long as your mom won’t buy one it won’t be able to best iPhone.
I recently learned that the display tech in these new OLED screens used in the upcoming iPad Pro likely uses a new technique that Samsung has developed to make the blue backlight more resilient which is what often fails first on OLEDs and causes backlight burn in. And if they do it like quantum dot OLED that backlight will be all blue with the quantum dots shifting the colors into different spectrum. This results in a device with better color reproduction that is brighter and also longer lasting with much less burn-in. I’m excited for that tech to make it into the MacBook Pro but they may wait until GaN replaces the organic components on OLED style displays (GLED? GaNLEDs?) a few years later, which looks like an even better and potentially more efficient solution.
I would love to see Tim Hardwick do a deep dive into various upcoming display technologies and how they will improve things and which tech is likely destined for different devices and why and when we might see it happen.
I would love to see Tim Hardwick do a deep dive into various upcoming display technologies and how they will improve things and which tech is likely destined for different devices and why and when we might see it happen.
I do expect an iMac Pro in space-grey (27" or 32" display), maybe not quite possible .
For OLED iPad Pro, yes, I will buy it on day-one, to replace my 1st gen. iPad Pro.
.For OLED iPad Pro, yes, I will buy it on day-one, to replace my 1st gen. iPad Pro.
lol. Let’s loop back in 12 months and see how much of a flop it turned out to be.
This is going to be a huge paradigm shift in how we interact with technology.
2nd gen AirPods Max!!! Hopefully they come out in the earlier part of the year!