No. 3 sounds like how Mylio (my photo management and photo editing software) works on my iPad. My library of originals is 59 GB; my library of previews on my iPad is 5 GB. I can however edit these preview images on my iPad just as I would on the desktop version, and without an internet connection, and these edits are then automatically synced to my originals when I have a connection.
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iPad Pro Ipad Pro 2018: Only 4gb of RAM
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No. 3 sounds like how Mylio (my photo management and photo editing software) works on my iPad. My library of originals is 59 GB; my library of previews on my iPad is 5 GB. I can however edit these preview images on my iPad just as I would on the desktop version, and without an internet connection, and these edits are then automatically synced to my originals when I have a connection.
And sadly that appears to be Cook's/Apple's attitude going forward, sell less at higher prices. Keep that cart value at checkout the same despite having fewer units in the cart.
And that may drive many away permanently from Apple for good. I am already peering elsewhere even having bought the 64gb Max this year. This is about it for me if prices go up even $1 more; $1099 was already a tough pill (add $75ish for taxes and $200 for Applecare too).
Having to deal with Android would suck (last used with Galaxy S5) but there may be no other option left. There is too much competition out there from Huawei and OnePlus in the big screen phone market for hundreds less.
Or just not upgrading next year for the first time ever and keeping the Max. Which still hurts Apple's bottom line equally as I own no other Apple devices and no paid Apple services.
They don't have a high enough price point (they're not selling $10,000 Rolexes at huge thousands of dollars profit margins each) to be alienating people in a generally stagnant phone and tablet market worldwide.
And that may drive many away permanently from Apple for good. I am already peering elsewhere even having bought the 64gb Max this year. This is about it for me if prices go up even $1 more; $1099 was already a tough pill (add $75ish for taxes and $200 for Applecare too).
Having to deal with Android would suck (last used with Galaxy S5) but there may be no other option left. There is too much competition out there from Huawei and OnePlus in the big screen phone market for hundreds less.
Or just not upgrading next year for the first time ever and keeping the Max. Which still hurts Apple's bottom line equally as I own no other Apple devices and no paid Apple services.
They don't have a high enough price point (they're not selling $10,000 Rolexes at huge thousands of dollars profit margins each) to be alienating people in a generally stagnant phone and tablet market worldwide.
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Yarp. And there’s no way to really get around this due to the nature of the program
Ok, so multiple german vendors seem to specify 6GB RAM for the 1TB models vs 4GB for the others. I see this pretty much as a confirmation, as these vendors (some of them are pretty big) are accountable for selling devices with wrong specifications, according to local law.
Example:
https://www.notebooksbilliger.de/apple+11+ipad+pro+2018+1tb+wi+fi+silber?nbb=17f39b
I'm pretty disappointed to be honest
Example:
https://www.notebooksbilliger.de/apple+11+ipad+pro+2018+1tb+wi+fi+silber?nbb=17f39b
I'm pretty disappointed to be honest
They do not have any inside info. These resellers would NOT get any first hand info.
And they are not held accountable by German law. Well... they COULD be... but there is a loophole which is them saying in the small print:
"Produktbilder und Angaben zu technischen Produkteigenschaften ohne Gewähr." Which basically means they take no liability for the accuracy of the product images or technical features/specs of a device.
Apple does have a problem on the horizon. Their I products have gotten so good that continued leaps in technology will diminish. People will decide to keep their devices longer (look at the iPhone XS forums for numinous examples, and the number of folks here who are not playing this cycle). The only way they can continue growth is to increase per Unit profit.
Sadly they may be in an ever diminishing cycle though. More price, less innovation, = even fewer sales.
I purchased an XS max, watch 4 and 256 11 inch iPad this year. All the while feeling like Apples price increases exceed the value of what they’ve improved. Unless that changes next year I don’t think I fall for it again.
My two cents worth, it’s worth exactly what you paid for it.
Sadly they may be in an ever diminishing cycle though. More price, less innovation, = even fewer sales.
I purchased an XS max, watch 4 and 256 11 inch iPad this year. All the while feeling like Apples price increases exceed the value of what they’ve improved. Unless that changes next year I don’t think I fall for it again.
My two cents worth, it’s worth exactly what you paid for it.
Im feeling the same thing right now. Last year was the first year I skipped the iPhone as they didn’t have a plus version of the x at the time. In all honesty, my 7 was more than fine. Phones are so good now it’s beyond the point of diminishing returns and the only reason I really upgraded was for the new form factor/screen. I doubt ill upgrade until we see the max with no notch and 5g support. I’m guessing 2020 or 2021
It just means they’ll have to step up their software game. As of now, the iPad hardware isn’t even taxed by iOS.
Apple needs to clean house of the F2P mess on the App Store, allow more accessories, allow software trials, and help remove the stigma of higher priced professional software apps.
This will attract more software developers and allow Apple to buffer the hardware revenue loss by increasing services.
Sounds good if it works. But continuing to increase hardware prices will lead to the fate of other folks who went before them.
Im excited for the dawn of ARM Macs. It could mean that we get something like Samsung’s dex thing for iPads where it runs ios normally when when docked and hooked up to a monitor we get Mac OS. Probably a pipe dream but if it happens it will be once arm MacBooks are a thing
i don’t think Apple has a problem on the horizon. Regulars of MacRumors are not typical Apple customers. Even when someone DOES understand what Apple is doing, they go ahead and buy Apple’s upper tier watch, phone, and tablet.
For all of the hand-wringing that accompanies every product announcement, people continue to trip over themselves to hand Apple increasingly large amounts of money.
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That’s not going to happen. Apple is a hardware company and they are not going to do anything to allow customers to buy one device when they currently have them buying two.
6GB for TB model, 4 for everything else. We don’t know if the 2 for the TB are useable, but everything else is confirmed.
Afaik, RAM is inside the A12X chipset so I dunno how a teardown will help.
I don’t think RAM is on the package - at least it traditionally hasn’t been for X chips in iPads. I don’t think the 6GB vs 4 is really going to make a huge amount of difference with this gen of iPad - by the time it comes into play in any meaningful way they will be getting quite long in the tooth, and I don’t see Apple crafting a special version of iOS for the 1TB versions that might allow them to take advantage of future ram-limited features (true multitasking?) that may come to future iOS versions. At this point, reloading seems to be more of an optimisation thing than an actual reflection of RAM capacity
That already happens though with the pros vs 9.7” pro vs 2018 iPad for multitasking though. This will just add further fragmentation
Those are completely separate models though, not a variant within a model line. With the 9.7” pro and iPad 6 they also both have 2GB RAM so it’s either marketing or a chipset issue.
It’s still the iPad line looking at iOS. The point is fragmentation already exists with current models and different features are available to each. Chances are the 6gb models will have more features available to them come iOS 13
i don’t think Apple has a problem on the horizon. Regulars of MacRumors are not typical Apple customers. Even when someone DOES understand what Apple is doing, they go ahead and buy Apple’s upper tier watch, phone, and tablet.
That’s what RIM and Palm said, people will always pay for upper tier. No one will ever replace us.
Considering they'll be a fraction of iPad sales I don't see any differentiation based on 6GB RAM until at least the next set of models launch with 6GB across the board (12-18M time). I don't see Apple turning around and saying to someone with a 512GB model "oh sorry, you might've the latest and greatest but because you didn't max out the storage you lose out on features". They're a bit more savvy than that. So definitely no differentiation with iOS 13, perhaps with iOS 14 alongside the next gen pros (though I also doubt that based on the feature rationing that happened between the X and XS).