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SO - NO SPRING event...
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I'm cross-posting this from New iPad an Accountants Vision of a Product
The thing is, other than True Tone display on the 12.9, or fast charging on the 9.7, the Pros don't need a hardware upgrade.* The issues many of us have with iPads are OS and software constrained. For example:
- Poor support of storage devices via the USB/SD dongle
- The Split View interface is a joke
- iCloud Drive extension auto expands ALL folders on iCloud Drive
- No drag and drop between split view
- Apps don't support the 12.9 (Facebook)
The new iPad is a good device for people who don't need smart connected devices or the pencil.
*I wouldn't throw a USB-C port out of bed, though.
Those were just a few things I could think of off the top of my head, but the iPad Pros problem isn't hardware.
I'm curious... what are "Meteorological Seasons"? I've only thought about seasons conforming to the solstices and the equinoxes.
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However, if you come into the iPad market a year - 2.99 years after the last update, you're kind of hosed, because the sunset seems to be 3-5 iOS versions after when you got it.
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Occupational Hazard...
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It's that "If I'm always negative, I'm never disappointed, and I can get joy out of saying that I was right."
I do think that Apple priced the Air 2 replacement right. The $399 price point is too close to the $599 price point, so one would just say, "what the heck?... I'll just get the Pro for $200 more." Making it almost $300 difference has people wondering... "do I really need the added features of the iPP?"
So, that's my way of saying, "Yes, I think there will be an April event, with a May release, and a 10.4 with the new iPad features added."
I hope.
It's very simple:
Spring = March, April, May
Summer = June, July, August
Autumn = September, October, November
Winter = December, January, February
So every season is three months long. The above is based on the average temperature of each month. With the three summer months being the warmest and the three winter months being the coldest.
What you describe, going by solstices and equinoxes are the astrological seasons.
Both are valid and accepted ways of defining seasons. But as the Met Office here in the UK (the official national weather and climate agency) uses the metrological definitions, I am much more familiar with that definition rather than the astrological definition. I personally prefer it, as I find it more logical and a simpler definition.
Presumably there will be an April event for updated iPad Pros, new Macs, and an upgraded Apple TV. Hopefully.
I really don't think its happening. They will be moving in April; so I don't foresee Apple having any event until WWDC. They wouldn't silently update some products, then have an event a month later.
I think we're being hopeful and not realistic now. I too want an update to the 12.9 iPad pro, because it would be better to buy at start of life cycle than the end of one, for resale value.
I use an iPad 2, and for the two tasks I use it for: watching video, and writing, it is mostly fine, though slow at times.
But I'd like an iPad Pro 9.7, as the pencil would be useful for editing my writing, and I could do most of my computing on an iPad instead of on my Mac or iPhone.
I was hoping for an update this week, mainly 3D touch, but as we all know, that didn't happen.
I now wonder whether we will see anything before September ... basically in 6 months time!
I can't help thinking that if there was going to be an event before WWDC, Apple would have just briefly mentioned the new iPad released this week at the end of that event, like they did for the non-touchbar MBPs. Also, I can't see them releasing the new 10.5 design ahead of the new iPhone.
I know, nobody knows, I keep thinking that if I see one at a good price, I should get it. Thing is, I could, and maybe should, wait.
As a side note, I understand that Apple refurbs have new shells, does that mean new screens too? I'm just wondering whether the whole exterior is changed for the new buyer.
But I'd like an iPad Pro 9.7, as the pencil would be useful for editing my writing, and I could do most of my computing on an iPad instead of on my Mac or iPhone.
I was hoping for an update this week, mainly 3D touch, but as we all know, that didn't happen.
I now wonder whether we will see anything before September ... basically in 6 months time!
I can't help thinking that if there was going to be an event before WWDC, Apple would have just briefly mentioned the new iPad released this week at the end of that event, like they did for the non-touchbar MBPs. Also, I can't see them releasing the new 10.5 design ahead of the new iPhone.
I know, nobody knows, I keep thinking that if I see one at a good price, I should get it. Thing is, I could, and maybe should, wait.
As a side note, I understand that Apple refurbs have new shells, does that mean new screens too? I'm just wondering whether the whole exterior is changed for the new buyer.
I would say, if you can, try to wait until the big update arrives.
Refurbs I believe have the outer casing and battery replaced with new, but not the screen. I could be wrong.
In the world of business, they will go by Financial Quarters not meteorological seasons. Can you imagine a world where Ive phones up Schiller and Cook and says "We have to move the iPhone event to next week, the leaves are falling from the trees in Zürich."