I was a victim of Bendgate...Apple told me I shouldn't put my iPhone 6 Plus in my back pocket...luckily my local store replaced the phone when they could see it was clearly bendy (TWICE).
That sucks. The 1TB upgrade in the UK is a ridiculous £600/$754!! That's a lot of money for <7 bucks worth of storage, ~16 bucks of RAM and one extra core.
I am wondering if this is due to thermal limits OR they want you to jump to a MBP for such things.
Didn't logic tell you not to sit on any phone in your back pocket anyway?
As I said a few days ago, it would have made no sense to artificially limit the iPad Pro with a lesser CPU, since the product category doens't get updated very frequently and Apple is keen to introduce new AI features that rely on the M4 - it would have stranded/strangled the iPad Pro for a couple of years.
I love the battery life but with my life on the road this thing being thinner and lighter won't be terrible. Now I just have to make sure I don't bend it by over-packing (bending incoming in 3...2...1...)
Stage Manager is pretty close to Dex already. I love it - and the ability to put things on an external display is "enough" until/unless they put an actual desktop mode on the iPad.
Every Movie and TV Show I've ever ripped, plus personal videos, plus my entire Photos and Music libraries.
The problem is the focal length on the main lens necessitates a wide angle lens. If they returned to the focal length in older iPhones it would fix the problems of their own creation.
And yet - iPads can do lots of things that MacBooks can't. Why can't people understand that? Your use case is not everyone else's use case.
This was discussed at length here in the forums. The display engines are rather large and Apple probably didn't want to spend a lot of die space for a feature that most people won't use. Doesn't hurt to push customers to higher price tiers either.
Just points more to the fact that the iPad Air shouldn't be a thing.
