One thing I wish the new iPad had to help justify the price...

[fokmik]

Since Apple let you have 6gb ram only in the 1terra ssd models, like they did with lte 2015 ipad pro, they need something for the 2019 model,since a redesign is not happening.

 

[Amazontabletsftw]

Oled display with straight corners.

 

[phillytim]

"Future proofing" is completely antithetic of any of Apple's recent goals.

Just look at those disposable appliances that Apple attempts to masquerade as computers (ie, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, etc.) - this is 2018 and Apple STILL only starts you out at 8GB RAM with an absurd price. It's absolutely disgusting, and why I am about to switch back to Windows after 8 years of MacBook Pro computers.

 

[jclardy]

Every Apple product is designed now to up sell you to it. They've released like 4 new form factors of the iPad Pro recent years that makes tech geeks get the itch.

Not even just at the product level, even with their storage tiers. You are spending $1k for a 12.9" iPad, are you really going to stick to 64GB or pay the extra $150 for 256? If it was 128GB in the base model way more people would stick to it, but Apple knows that so 64GB it is.

 

[charlituna]

To be honest, I don't think this is going to happen. Apple has always been hesitant to mention RAM in the iDevices and I don't think they want to go down that route now. It seems like a mix of cost control and desire to control the narrative. RAM has a high impact on peoples' perception of "future proofing".

At the end of the day I think it's only fair to the customers that the RAM is mentioned on the Tech Specs page like for everything else.

RAM is something the average user doesn't always understand. i mean many of them can't figure out the difference between iPhone and iCloud storage and how increasing your iCloud doesn't increase your iPhone storage. how much RAM there is means nothing to them compared to what they can do with the device cause usage is all they can understand. so yeah, put it as a note on the tech specs page for the nerds that feel they need to know and that's all