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Apple Unveils 10th-Gen iPad With Complete Redesign, 10.9-Inch Display, USB-C, and More

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ackmondual said:
They lost the educational market long ago to Chromebooks, roughly (I'm going to say) 10 years ago.


I wanted a 256 GB iPad, but paying an extra $150 to go from 64 GB was overkill. I would normally be fine since the iPad is just a gaming device. I had a few choice digital board games I wanted, and maybe a few other actual video games. The curveball was my iPad purchase came with a free trial of Apple Arcade, and some of those games have a footprint of 2 GB to 10 GB apiece! :eek: I initially lamented that decision, but I took a break from AA since I had travel, found a few non-AA games (on both the ipad and my Android phone), and those have been enough to keep my occupied since. While I haven't written off AA, I don't have any plans to resub anytime soon (perhaps if even at all!), so ironically enough, the smaller capacity iPad helped with that!
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I have 64GB Ipad for 5 years and with apple arcade with 10 years of photos. I still have room. why? because I don't keep 2GB or more games that I no longer play. Have many games but depends on what is enough. I too wanted a 256 but not at this price. I going another 64.
 
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A few days later I'm still hopping mad that the "budget iPad" is no more. Way to alienate a huge segment of your customers, Apple. I was literally ready to place an order right away. Who knows now. Will try to last another refresh cycle I guess.
 
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fredn said:
A few days later I'm still hopping mad that the "budget iPad" is no more. Way to alienate a huge segment of your customers, Apple. I was literally ready to place an order right away. Who knows now. Will try to last another refresh cycle I guess.
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Does the price increase to the 9th gen ipad really count as there no longer being a budget ipad? What counts as budget?
 
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JapanApple said:
I have 64GB Ipad for 5 years and with apple arcade with 10 years of photos. I still have room. why? because I don't keep 2GB or more games that I no longer play. Have many games but depends on what is enough. I too wanted a 256 but not at this price. I going another 64.
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I need to learn how to get images and video grabs off my iPad (and onto my PC). Once I can do that, that'll free up space. As for AA games (and IIRC this works for non-AA games as well), you can always just tap on the "offload" button to delete the game, but retain the save data so that one day if you're like to play it again and resume from where you left off, all you'd need to do is to just re-DL it from the App Store.
 
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ackmondual said:
I need to learn how to get images and video grabs off my iPad (and onto my PC). Once I can do that, that'll free up space. As for AA games (and IIRC this works for non-AA games as well), you can always just tap on the "offload" button to delete the game, but retain the save data so that one day if you're like to play it again and resume from where you left off, all you'd need to do is to just re-DL it from the App Store.
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you are fine! take some time to don't be rushed. after a while, you learn what games are deleted. your point good
 
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fredn said:
You think they'll ever drop the iPad from ~$450 to ~$350 ever again? That's not how things work, so: RIP iPad as a budget device.
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That's how things have worked in the past so I don't suppose it'll be any different now. The 10th gen iPad will come down to the price of the 9th gen over time. At that point the 9th gen iPad will be discontinued.
 
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mrochester said:
That's how things have worked in the past so I don't suppose it'll be any different now. The 10th gen iPad will come down to the price of the 9th gen over time. At that point the 9th gen iPad will be discontinued.
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You've miss the point.

For the last decade, we could go out and buy the iPad 6, 7, 8, 9, whatever -- as soon as it was released -- for a reasonable budget-conscious price.

So now, the game has changed. We have to wait till iPad 11 comes out to get the iPad 10? That is what makes the iPad no longer a budget-conscious device, going forward.

Budget conscious folks now just have to buy old stuff.

Well that sucks greatly.
 
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fredn said:
You've miss the point.

For the last decade, we could go out and buy the iPad 6, 7, 8, 9, whatever -- as soon as it was released -- for a reasonable budget-conscious price.

So now, the game has changed. We have to wait till iPad 11 comes out to get the iPad 10? That is what makes the iPad no longer a budget-conscious device, going forward.

So now the game has changed. Budget conscious folks now just have to buy old stuff.

Well that sucks greatly.
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Correct, budget conscious people should probably buy the 9th gen iPad. I’m sure they’ll be very happy with it.
 
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fredn said:
You think they'll ever drop the iPad from ~$450 to ~$350 ever again? That's not how things work, so: RIP iPad as a budget device.
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I'd think Apple would want to keep that. They're trying to push their various services (especially Apple One), which is why they introduced cheaper iPads in the first place. You need more devices and users to up those subscription numbers!
 
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I believe the next gen iPad Pro will have the landscape camera and there will be an Apple pencil 3. How hard can that be to design an Apple pencil that let you charge above the camera? It is just a pencil. It is not an engineering miracle. Apple has lots of engineers who are paid a lot of money. If Apple can't do it, who can do it? It is such an easy task.
 
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I believe the next gen iPad Pro will have the landscape camera and there will be an Apple pencil 3. How hard can that be to design an Apple pencil that let you charge above the camera? It is just a pencil. It is not an engineering miracle. Apple has lots of engineers who are paid a lot of money. If Apple can't do it, who can do it? It is such an easy task.
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Apparently you can do it! Better let apple know.
 
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mrochester said:
You had better give Apple a call them and impart them with your wisdom!
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They would call me if they need to. But I guess they don't need me when they have all the well paid engineers. This is such a small project that it is like one of the high school pet project. Apple can't figure out how to charge the pencil above the camera? Guess not.
 
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They would call me if they need to. But I guess they don't need me when they have all the well paid engineers. This is such a small project that it is like one of the high school pet project. Apple can't figure out how to charge the pencil above the camera? Guess not.
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Well with all those engineers I’m sure theyll figure it out if it’s possible.
 
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