It’s enough for an additional row of half-height keys and a larger trackpad.
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Apple Announces Redesigned Magic Keyboard for New iPad Pro Starting at $299
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The people arguing that a good keyboard costs some dollar know exactly that no one in their right mind would spend that dollar on an Apple keyboard.
And no, you cannot do the same stuff on this hamstrung tablet OS that you can do on a mature desktop OS. Starts by not getting to choose your software but have Apple choose it for you. And an absolute POS if you want to do serious software engineering.
And no, you cannot do the same stuff on this hamstrung tablet OS that you can do on a mature desktop OS. Starts by not getting to choose your software but have Apple choose it for you. And an absolute POS if you want to do serious software engineering.
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Apple do love their white. Weirdly, I bet they'd sell a boat load of accessories the week they finally offer everything in black!
Just like with the previous one, the MK is not compatible with protective cases.
The iPod was white (ignoring the latter black models) because Apple wanted it to be seen in a crowd, in a big room or on the street. This strategy has continued for all their smaller accessories including the Pencil. They want it to stand out in a room full of students.
When I lived in China all the knock off crap was white too... more likely a white thing wasn't Apple.
Yeah, that's why everyone copied Apple, making white so ubiquitous is stopped standing out in a good way
I spend all day typing. I've owned multiple nice mechanical keyboards. Some folks such as yourself (and you're a very tiny minority) see the need for a $300 keyboard. Most of us don't. The keyboard on my HP work laptop works just fine and feels good enough.
Including the bigger Air model? The 13" Air uses same as 12.9" IPP? I know we're talking about minor differences, but you know Apple... iPhone XS couldn't use the iPhone X cases because you know, .01mm camera cut-out differences.
I think they just mean that you don’t have to sacrifice battery life in order to access data via the port on the actual iPad. It’s a strange way to say that though.
If I was ever asked that question, my answer would be an MBA & 11” M2 iPP.
The prices of the new Pros are ludicrous given the iPadOS crippleware.
And, by the way, the 13” iPad Air is really still just 12.9”. Apple decided to round the numbers now for some reason.
Calling it 12.9 was always dumb IMO. I always just refer to it as the 13” iPad. I’m glad has caught up to me.
For Christ, twenty years on these forums I've never really bought the Apple is overpriced meme. Their high end laptops have always cost about what other high end laptops do. The expensive cables are also the same, whenever they cut a floppy drive or charger from a box, or a headphone jack, their biggest competitors always follow suit within a year, it's just so much noise. I mean, they charge what they can get away with like any company, and don't prioritize a low end. The prices aren't really surprising most of the time.
Occasionally they get it wrong, like famously cutting the original iPhone price.
But are they possibly serious with this? $300? I'm that kind of nerd with a fancy mechanical keyboard. It is very niche will last fifty plus years, literally, and still wasn't *that* expensive.
I would think something like $179 tops.
Occasionally they get it wrong, like famously cutting the original iPhone price.
But are they possibly serious with this? $300? I'm that kind of nerd with a fancy mechanical keyboard. It is very niche will last fifty plus years, literally, and still wasn't *that* expensive.
I would think something like $179 tops.
The previous Magic Keyboard cost the same. Where have you been the last 4 years?
Although I do agree it’s overpriced.
Actually yeah . . . you are dead on, mostly away for a bit more than four years. Which I acknowledge is a big part of it, but still, literally shocked. I used to use almost all Apple everything, but they lost me when the mac went touch bar and for the last ~ten years I've had Macs at work, but have only bought myself iPhones and Apple TVs, and use Linux for everything else.
I think they keyboard data goes across the connector on the back of the iPad, I don't think this is USB-C data.