iPad What are the chances they will //mindblown everyone by introducing the iPad Pro 12.9?

[ron7624]

Apple will never release a 13" iPad.

It will never happen.

Never say Never
This is Apple

 

[Newtons Apple]

are you sure?

Without a doubt!

 

[sracer]

Keyboards already attach by magnets. Don't need another connection just to attach the keyboard, especially if the keyboard has Bluetooth. Better battery life? iPads already have excellent battery life, don't see any need to increase complexity by adding another connection port for this purpose.

The purpose for physically connecting a keyboard in this hypothetical scenario is to address the issues of using it as a notebook. The Surface Pro 3 does a decent job in that regard, but if Apple were to do something similar, they'd need to improve on that. That requires a physically locking connector.

Apple is always looking for ways to improve battery life (and thinness).

Should Apple produce an iPad Pro/hybrid, they will need to provide something hardware-wise that is not currently available. So in the end, if the iPad is the end-of-the-road for Apple tablets, then you are correct... nothing new aside from mirroring features from the iPhone is needed.

 

[Mildredop]

- 2nd lightning connector for optional keyboard cover.

I'm clearly missing something, but if they released a thinner, lighter MacBook Air, you'd have a fully-fledged computer.

Rather then a large phone.

That can't make calls.

 

[The Doctor11]

After doing a ton of math I found the exact percentage to be 0.0001%

 

[iSage]

They could do a keyboard cover. Apple is quite good at keyboards and making them thin. Bluetooth LE could be used to connect when in close proximity. They could use wireless induction for power seeing keyboards use bugger all power.

 

[wgnoyes]

zero chance.

 

[Night Spring]

Should Apple produce an iPad Pro/hybrid, they will need to provide something hardware-wise that is not currently available. So in the end, if the iPad is the end-of-the-road for Apple tablets, then you are correct... nothing new aside from mirroring features from the iPhone is needed.

The problem with all the laptop/tablet hybrids out there today is that they try to take two established products, "tablet" and "laptop", and combine them into one. I think Jobs would tell his design team to throw these concepts out the window and focus on the jobs that people want to do with these mobile devices -- work away from the desk, work at the desk, and seamlessly transition from one mode to the other. Then he'd tell them to design a device to fit that job, never mind what the end product will be called. And then once they design that product, they'd market it as a new product, not iPad pro or MacBook tablet.

That's how I think Jobs would have done it, and I hope someone at Apple has the sense to do it this way.

 

[Bigcase]

Won't happen!

 

[saberahul]

Does it come with shoulder straps? If so, I'm in.

 

[sracer]

The problem with all the laptop/tablet hybrids out there today is that they try to take two established products, "tablet" and "laptop", and combine them into one. I think Jobs would tell his design team to throw these concepts out the window and focus on the jobs that people want to do with these mobile devices -- work away from the desk, work at the desk, and seamlessly transition from one mode to the other. Then he'd tell them to design a device to fit that job, never mind what the end product will be called. And then once they design that product, they'd market it as a new product, not iPad pro or MacBook tablet.

That's how I think Jobs would have done it, and I hope someone at Apple has the sense to do it this way.

It pointless to theorize what Jobs would've done. He's not here anymore... and his vision for consumer devices wasn't perfect.

Microsoft introduced tablets back in the late 90's/early 2000's. That attempt failed. Microsoft's failure didn't prevent Apple from implementing THEIR vision of what a tablet was... to great success.

Just because Microsoft (and by extension, manufacturers of hybrid Windows devices) failed with hybrids should not prevent Apple from implementing THEIR vision of what a hybrid is.

That is my point. You're looking at the failure of Windows-based hybrids as "proof" that the concept itself is flawed and therefore any attempt by Apple to develop a hybrid would fail as well.

Applying that logic to tablets would;ve resulted in no iPad.

 

[Night Spring]

It pointless to theorize what Jobs would've done. He's not here anymore... and his vision for consumer devices wasn't perfect.

Microsoft introduced tablets back in the late 90's/early 2000's. That attempt failed. Microsoft's failure didn't prevent Apple from implementing THEIR vision of what a tablet was... to great success.

Just because Microsoft (and by extension, manufacturers of hybrid Windows devices) failed with hybrids should not prevent Apple from implementing THEIR vision of what a hybrid is.

That is my point. You're looking at the failure of Windows-based hybrids as "proof" that the concept itself is flawed and therefore any attempt by Apple to develop a hybrid would fail as well.

Applying that logic to tablets would;ve resulted in no iPad.

You are misunderstanding me. I never said Apple's attempts to develop hybrids will fail. As you say, Microsoft was the first to try to develop tablets. Apple, led by Jobs, followed their own vision of what a tablet should be, and developed the iPad. I'm just saying that even though Jobs is no longer with us, I hope Apple has a vision of hybrids that they will follow, and will develop one that is different from Microsoft's hybrids, just as the iPad is different from Microsoft's earlier tablet attempts.