Honestly does anyone upgrade regularly on ipads? I have the first ipad pro that we use for my flight department and it still does everything. I don't know the year of it. What's better about these? Seems like most people don't do anything to justify the new crazy power or anything.
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I don’t think they can move the camera due to the Apple Pencil 2 placement. I would guess you’re right that the landscape camera will come to the iPad Pros first, along with an Apple Pencil 3. I doubt they’ll introduce the new Pencil with the Air. Since the Pencil 2 cannot use a dongle, unlike the Pencil 1, they simply can’t move it.
Practical people generally upgrade their tablets and phones when their old ones get creaky or just flat out die on them. I deal with a lot of people who are upgrading from 5-6 plus years old iPads that have gotten slow, charge slowly and/or don’t hold their charge anymore. It’s often a very similar complaint with laptops with HDDs that have gotten brutally slow or the device has just quit on them.
Ah, but they want you to upgrade to an iPad Pro. That’s why I don’t see OLED coming to the Air too quickly.
Right. My father used the iPad 1 for ten years and only upgraded after too many websites started crashing Safari.
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Unless Apple completely, radically changes tactic on iPadOS, it will never be able to properly replace a laptop.
Yeah maybe for writing or drawing, things you don't technically need a laptop for anyway. But the operating system is a toy compared to a real OS.
Since it replaced my laptop, I will take any extra power.
Currently on iPad Pro M2 11.
Most people I know don’t fill 32GB, let alone 64GB.
The iPad line is a bit confusing, but mostly in the naming. The iPad Air is basically the "non-Pro iPhone" equivalent of the iPad. The Mini is like a smaller iPad Air. The regular iPad is like the SE.
The price difference between a base model iPad Air and base model 11" iPad Pro is not very big especially when you take into account the 11" iPad Pro has twice the storage amount of the iPad Air.
I wouldn't put anything past apple, but most likely they are taking the remaining 64GB flash chips they had laying around for the iPhone SE 2022 which I think didn't meet their expectations.
For what most people do an iPad which primarily consumption, its amazing Apple has a market to sell these to. Even outdated models still do the job! I found an old iPad 2 at work and was surprised when I could browse the web and even view video on YouTube.
Well, it’s a $200 difference (plus tax), or 33%, and many people are still fine with 64 GB. Being able to justify a $600 expense doesn’t mean you can justify a $800 expense, regardless of getting more storage. You also might prefer putting the money into the Pencil, 4G, or a keyboard instead.
With the 256 GB option, which exists for both models, the difference is still $150, or 20%.
I mean, you can spend more until you can’t. That’s why there are models at every price level.
Been asking myself the same thing for a while. Just seems like an extra, unnecessary product shoehorned into the middle to hold back trickle-down tech from the Pro from the regular iPad. IMO should be just like like the phone, with regular and Pro models, doesn't seem like the iPad market is big enough to support three tiers.
I wasn't able to fill my 32gb 11 gen iPad that I just gave away.
The iPhone is a different story.
