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- aikorevs 10y agoCould not find what's new. Any hints ?
- maguay 10y agoA9 CPU (same as iPhone 6s), and cheaper price, starting at $349 for 32GB http://www.apple.com/ipad-9.7/specs/ http://www.apple.com/ipad-9.7/specs/
- daviddavis 10y agoI'm seeing the 32GB wifi one as $329.
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- lstamour 10y agoAccording to press releases - featuring a brighter Retina® display and best-in-class performance at its most affordable price, starting at $329. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2017/03/21Swift-Playgrounds-Now-Available-in-Five-Additional-Languages.html http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2017/03/21Swift-Playgrounds-...
- gmac 10y agoCheaper, faster. http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/21/14998464/apple-replaces-ipad-air-with-cheaper-9-7-inch-ipad http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/21/14998464/apple-replaces-ip...
- apricot 10y ago"Could not find what's new. Any hints ?" This sums up Apple's problems better than anything I've seen.
- giarc 10y agoIt's because their naming conventions have gone out the window. When it was iPhone 4, 4S, 5, 5S you knew where on the product timeline your phone was. Now it's iPad Air, Air 2, 9.7 Pro, 9.7, 12.9 Pro, mini 4. It's all over the place.
- lvh 10y agoThe phone is a little unique in that sense. iPads or Macs not disclosing their specific version number is not new. When you got an iPad 3, it just said "iPad".
- apricot 10y agoWhen Jobs came back to Apple, there was a similar chaos regarding the Macintosh models. Lots of numbers, letters, and qualifiers, and the purpose of a new model was seldom clear. He canceled the majority of them -- the "great extinction" of 1998 is plainly visible on the image at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Macintosh_models https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Macintosh_models .
- draw_down 10y agoI'm afraid I must agree. They must be working on a bunch of new things or one huge new thing, trying to find their next big hit, because nothing seems to actually be advancing anymore. (What's new here, apparently: they dropped the price by $70 and bumped the processor.)
- DoodleBuggy 10y ago...... more stickers in Messages?
- shepardrtc 10y agoThey're consolidating their lineup and dropping the price. The iPad Air is no more. Now there's just an iPad in one size, and an iPad Pro in two sizes. I think the iPad mini is still around but I don't imagine for much longer.
- bluedino 10y agoNon-laminated screen that's more reflective.
- breatheoften 10y agoIt's a feature not a bug!
- J0-nas 10y agoI just hope for the one big presentation where they refresh iMac, Mac mini, Mac Pro, and maybe some "next big thing" for desktop PCs. And for the love of god, if they do this please have some USB-A ports...
- awjr 10y agoI'd almost hoped they would have released a refreshed Macbook Pro range. I realise they are unlikely to recognise the joy and immense pleasure working on a MBP has brought me over the years, with the previous MBP being the pinnacle. Sadly I see the current MBP as something I will not be buying and will more than likely move back to a high end windows laptop.
- nkkollaw 10y agoYou should give the new MBP a try (the version without the touchbar, of course). It's the best laptop I've ever used by a long shot.
- sqldba 10y agoMost complaints about the newest one are that it's slower, palms keep activating the larger track pad while typing, and of course the lack of memory. Most people who enjoy the touch bar are video designers rather than devs etc who use a lot of function keys.
- agmcleod 10y agoI'm a dev and I enjoy it. Though it kinda sucks when I can't connect to an external monitor at home, have yet to buy any dongles for that. I'm kinda curious who finds themselves needing more memory, and for what purpose. No doubt more can be helpful, but having 16 hasn't really ever felt slow to me. Even when running multiple virtual machines.
- dsacco 10y agoYou run multiple virtual machines simultaneously and 16GB of RAM doesn't feel slow to you? They must have seriously optimized the hardware to the point that the RAM goes farther. Running multiple VMs on my 2015 MBP with 16GB RAM is a nonstarter. How much memory are you devoting to each VM, and how much do you allocate for overhead on the host system? I'm spoiled though - these days I spend most of my time on a machine with 128GB RAM and an i7-6900K :). I can barely recall what it's like for a machine to hang.
- dav43 10y agoThrow in old leftover components from a generation ago and call in NEW!! Apple, do better than this. This is not how you answer critics, and the market, who are starting to question your products relevance.
- Shivetya 10y agoWell going from iPad to iPad Air back to iPad is a bit disappointing. They should have pushed to hit the 299 dollar mark for the physiological impact. Did notice the Mini is a 128g device where the larger iPad is a 32g. The iPad market is just to fragmented. The oddity is why is it as thick as the previous generation and where did the laminated screen go? Is that no longer needed or cost cutting?
- snuxoll 10y ago> The oddity is why is it as thick as the previous generation and where did the laminated screen go? Is that no longer needed or cost cutting? Yes, it's cost cutting. They just made a 9.7" tablet available for just over $300, right in the iPad Mini's price segment. Honestly, Apple is probably feeling some pressure from the Android market - lots of vendors have "good enough" tablets available in this price segment (Amazon, in particular) and I've been seeing the app selection slowly getting better over the past couple years. By putting the iPad with a full-size retina display just $55 above the 32GB Fire HD 10 they can likely get a decent chunk of people looking for a cheaper "big" tablet to justify the cost difference and go with the Apple device. > Did notice the Mini is a 128g device where the larger iPad is a 32g. The iPad market is just to fragmented. Either Apple wants to kill the Mini with this change or make it a premium-ish product where you pay more to get the smaller form factor. Either way, it's likely to be less popular now that there's a 9.7" device right in its price point so simplifying the device down to one SKU makes supply chain management a lot cleaner.
- snowwrestler 10y agoThe only really new thing is the MSRP [1]. Apple clearly believes they've left a price umbrella under the current iPads that is hurting them. [1] Although older iPad models have been available for this price or lower from places like Apple Refurb or Groupon for years now.
- grenoire 10y agoWhat does "refreshed" mean in this case?
- annerajb 10y agoA diff between the previous generation ipads and this one would be appreciated!
- constantlm 10y agoHmmm. Most people I know who own iPads have had them end up as rather expensive children's toys.
- g051051 10y agoMine's not a children's toy, but it's almost useless now. Once they stop updating iOS for a device, it's pretty much game over. Many apps have stopped working due to the developers making mistakes and publishing incompatible updates. Just about the only app I can still use is NetFlix.
- rimliu 10y agoBut it takes about five years to stop releasing iOS updates for particular device.
- simonh 10y agoIt's almost always because the device doesn't have enough RAM to support the new OS update.
- brians 10y agoThat's part of what I'm disappointed about today: no RAM bump for the 9.7 Pro, and not clear whether the plain iPad is at 1 GB or 2.
- jessaustin 10y agoThen that's good news for those who own the current model, isn't it? It will take longer for their tablet to obsolesce via OS update.
- g051051 10y agoThe 1st generation iPad was released April 2010. The last version of iOS for that hardware was iOS 5.1.1, released May 2012. That's just barely 2 years later, not 5.
- nkkollaw 10y agoIs that all? Is there anything else, like laptops or desktops? Was there an event?
- lazarus101 10y agois iPad mini dead?
- schoash 10y agoi hope not.
- falcolas 10y agoIt's still on the product page; it appears that only the "air" went away, seemingly in favor of an un-differentiated iPad branding.
- simonh 10y agoIt's a bit weird, only the 128 GB Mini 4 is available at the moment, which means the Mini is $70 more expensive than a base level iPad 9.7".
- kalleboo 10y agoSo they killed the Mini 2 which was cheaper than the new entry-level iPad. But the 128 GB mini 4 costs what the 32 GB mini 4 cost before today, so that value got quite a bit better.
- jlebrech 10y agoif they want everyone to use ipads they should make an ide for it.
- sbuk 10y agoI guess the Swift app they released last year was a kind of precursor to that becoming a realised app.
- simonh 10y agoWhy wait for Apple? There are dozens of development environments and coding tools already available, several of which can be used to build App Store Apps right on your phone or iPad, although you'll need to export them to XCode to build the app package. Check out Codea, Pythonista and the Kodiak Javascript and PHP apps for starters. But yes, official support for development on the device would be very welcome and given the examples above is completely doable.
- jlebrech 10y agoi'm just hoping for a revolutionary new way to develop.
- mark_l_watson 10y agoThere are: Raskell Haskell IDE, Pythonista Python IDE, and the Swift playgrounds IDE. I own Raskell and Pythonista and they are quite good.
- RBerenguel 10y agoLisping by the creator of Raskell is also pretty good
- CoolGuySteve 10y agoLisping is great but it stopped receiving updates a long time ago. I kind of wish it would be open sourced so someone could add more features to that amazing editor it has.
- ropiku 10y agoLooks like they tried as much as possible to make a low-cost full sized iPad. Would've been a good opportunity for Apple to have P3 wide color displays on all their lines. Even more surprised it doesn't have laminated display, possible reason why it's thinker and heavier than the 9.7" Pro.
- hasperdi 10y agoThey did not have the courage to ommit the headphone jack this time
- zelos 10y agoCan anyone see what changed with the iPhone SE? They seem to have updated it as the store now says "place your order starting 3/24", but all the specs look identical to me.
- taspeotis 10y agoStorage capacity is doubled, I believe.
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- n1000 10y agoApparently Apple doubled the storage. https://www.macrumors.com/2017/03/21/apple-iphone-se-in-32gb-and-128gb-capacities/ https://www.macrumors.com/2017/03/21/apple-iphone-se-in-32gb...
- bestest 10y agoHow about the Apple Pencil support? Or is that only for iPad Pro?
- berberous 10y agoFrom a Reddit comment, in addition to the bump from a A8x to A9 chip: - It's as thick as the iPad Air 1 (and thus thicker than the Air 2/9.7" Pro). - No laminated display (and no AR coating, True Tone, or wide color). - Air 2 quality camera. - The iPad mini 4 is now only available in 128GB, at $399. - The chamfers look matte, like the iPhone SE. Also, no Pencil support or smart connector.
- hellofunk 10y ago> Also, no Pencil support or smart connector. the website shows pencil support: http://www.apple.com/ipad/compare/ http://www.apple.com/ipad/compare/ Edit: My apologies, I thought we were discussing the 9.7 Pro.
- dagw 10y agoNot any more as far as I can see.
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- conradev 10y agoUnless we are seeing different pages, the website seems to show that the iPad does not support the Pencil, whereas the iPad Pros do.
- blowski 10y agoAre you looking at the 9.7" iPad (which we're talking about here), or the 9.7" iPad Pro?
- throwanem 10y agoNo, it doesn't. The only models with a check mark in that row are the two Pro models. Perhaps they've just updated the page?
- davb 10y agoWhen you compare the new iPad and the Pro 9.7 on the Apple site it says Pencil is supported on both (but Smart Connector is only on the Pro).
- omegote 10y agoLol
- metafunctor 10y agoSo what? Is this somehow interesting or noteworthy?
- gtirloni 10y agoHow can they justify the extra $130 for a cellular chip and antenna?
- josteink 10y ago$100 is the standard "extra" you have to pay across the line from most vendors for having built in 3G/4G. Apple only charging $130 extra seems almost too cheap.
- slig 10y agoPrice segmentation.
- cmdrfred 10y agoThis is the company that charges $300 for a book about its products. The prices are rarely justified beyond "someone will pay it".
- zie 10y agoyou also get GPS, which works regardless of cell connectivity, handy for Maps :)
- JohnnyConatus 10y agoThere is a legendary story about how Steve Jobs, upon his return to Apple, drastically cut-down the number of models that they offer. How on earth have they forgotten that lesson? Trying to figure out the differences between the 9.7" iPad and iPad pro is not easy, and regardless, it makes it harder to buy.
- ajeet_dhaliwal 10y agoIt has got a little confusing over the years but today doesn't add any further complexity and makes things a bit better, it just replaces the iPad Air which I think was badly named to begin with and should have just been called iPad like it was before. May be because the Macbook Air looks to be going away they are getting rid of the Air name, although they just released 'AirPods'.
- mikeash 10y agoThey also dropped the iPad mini 2, which is a nice step towards simplifying the lineup a bit. It's still overly complicated, but it's been ridiculous for years now, and this is moving in the right direction.
- emdowling 10y agoAirPlay, AirPrint are still in use. The Air name for Macbook and iPad lines was all about thinness. When introduced, these products had thicker predecessors. It's irrelevant now for iPad, as everything is pretty much the same thickness across all models. For Macbook Air, it is no longer the thinnest product in the line-up. However, Apple can't quite get rid of it just yet - not until they offer a sub $999 Macbook.
- rrdharan 10y agoIn those cases the Air refers to wirelessness rather than weight.
- waderyan 10y agoI don't disagree with the lesson, but does it always apply? When Jobs came back Apple was in a different place than it is today. To your second point, I completely agree. Regardless of the need to focus, causing confusion to consumers doesn't seem the right thing to do.
- perseusprime11 10y agoI think this will pave way for iPad Pro in two sizes 10.5" and 12.9". They will probably keep iPad at 9.7"
- dvcrn 10y agoI was kind of hoping for a revamped 12" MacBook but looks like we didn't get one. I wonder if this bump is already the usual spring revamp or if something else will come in April
- leggomylibro 10y agoSeriously; everyone is talking about jumping ship from Apple's products, all doom and gloom, but I'm coming from the opposite direction. I do not like or use Apple products unless my work strenuously requires me to. But the dearth of offerings in high-quality laptops under 13.3" is astonishing. While I personally prefer the 10.1" form factor, I think that Apple is onto something with pushing a 12" 'daily driver' model for people who want a power/portability compromise between a Chromebook and a 13-15" workhorse. So if Apple came out with something like that which had more than a single port, I'd probably jump on board with it. If they don't, I think that Chromebooks may take the market within a few years. Right now you need to do a bit of tinkering to turn them into fully-fledged computers, but Google's been adding some really cool features, both official and unofficial.
- dvcrn 10y agoI agree. I am still longing for the new Apple MacBooks and love the tech they are putting out. I was highly hoping for a 12" revamp so I could finally get one. The first model was nice but didn't convince me just yet, but what they put into the recent MacBook pros like the new keyboard and tb3 put my hopes high for a 12" that could make me pull the trigger.
- anamoulous 10y agoWas hoping for the update too. My personal is a 2011 11" and am waiting for the update to 12" to upgrade.
- ianai 10y agoWhere were you in 2003 when you could get a PowerBook 12? It had the same footprint as an 8.5"X11" sheet of paper and a full OS.
- djhworld 10y agoI've had my iPad Air since 2013, still going strong, see no reason to upgrade.
- mcs_ 10y agoanother device to test...
- rebootthesystem 10y agoIt sure feels like Apple is getting desperate. Not sure what's going on. I know this is a single data point but just a few days we went to our local Apple store. It wasn't quite empty but it was nowhere near as busy as it was, say, a year ago. No buzz. At my personal level, we have not updated our iPads and iPods for a number of years. Don't plan to. I still have a 4S. I have disliked everything Apple has done since then and so did not upgrade. The device is getting slow over time. This, by itself, is enough to bother me. It used to work fine. Software updates have made it sluggish. This is wrong. I know I will have to upgrade at one point yet I am not looking forward to upgrading to another iPhone. Apple probably has one shot at convincing people like me with iPhone 8. Hint: I am sick and tired of "thinner". I could not care less. "Thinner" ceased to be a benefit a very long time ago. They need to solve real problems. Beyond that, you can only say "beautiful" so many times before it becomes a joke. Beautiful, beyond a basic aesthetic, isn't a solution to any real problem. At least none I have. Past that, we have pulled our last app from the app store. Actually, Apple required an upgrade and I decided not to invest the time and money to do it. Why? Because the app store is useless unless you get lucky, throw money at it or both. App discoverability is impossible. The other thing that is also impossible is to create relationships with your users. Business is about relationships and this walled garden prevents you from creating such relationships. In a way I equate this to groups on Facebook. FB has made it so that you have to pay to reach an audience you worked hard to create. You can have a million person group and only reach a couple thousand or less people per post. If you want to reach more you have to pay. In other words, you don't "own" your audience the same way you would through an opt-in email list. And so, it is goodbye to the App store, it isn't worth our time, money and effort. All of the above leads me to conclude that the Apple era is in jeopardy if they can't come up with enough of a pivot to provide value and get people exited again.
- greedo 10y agoYou're complaining about an almost 6 year old smartphone being sluggish with iOS updates. And then complaining because Apple is requiring you to update your app. Ironically, the reason that discoverability in the App Store is so bad is because it's filled with abandonware apps where the devs don't update to fit with the newer versions of iOS. I think that's what my dad used to call chutzpah.
- mrfusion 10y agoWhy would you pay extra for the mini?
- kalleboo 10y agoSo by killing the iPad Mini 2, they've raised the iPad entry level from $269 to $329
- snuxoll 10y agoYou probably shouldn't have been buying the iPad Mini 2 in the first place, and Apple really shouldn't have been selling it for as long as they did. I'm all for keeping entry-level devices, but the Mini 2 had underwhelming performance to begin with.
- ungzd 10y agoImmediately googled "9.7 inch in cm" because it's hard to imagine size in proprietary units used in only one country. But then encountered "1 lb., 7.5 mm" on the website. That's unit trolling. They should've used megahartleys per decimal second for LTE speed.
- Dylan16807 10y agoThat's two different stats, weight and thickness. There are no weird units or combination units in play.
- onion2k 10y agoApple describe the screen size in inches and the thickness in millimetres. Those are both lengths. It's understandable, because inches don't really work for small sizes, but it's quite a good illustration of why metric is preferable.
- Dylan16807 10y ago> it's quite a good illustration of why metric is preferable How so? You'd use cm for one and mm for the other, and there's no actual reason to convert between screen size and thickness so it doesn't matter if the conversion factor is 10 or 25.4
- onion2k 10y agoit doesn't matter if the conversion factor is 10 or 25.4 Most people can't easily multiply by 25.4 in their head. A lot of people can't even estimate to that level (which is a shame, because it's a useful skill, but still). Converting from centimetres to millimetres is much easier.
- Dylan16807 10y ago0 * easy is the same as 0 * hard. If you're not converting, the factor doesn't matter.
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- dluan 10y ago> "WOW!" > "It's lit."
- plg 10y agothe news here isn't the new specs but the price point, which is low apple is trying to expand their market share in the tablet space even more
- Larrikin 10y agoI've gotten a lot of use out of my iPad 3 and, up until it stopped getting updates and the touch screen started breaking down in the past few months, found no reason to upgrade or replace it. I use it nearly daily but mostly for reading textbooks and novels, reviewing language cards, and occasionally watching YouTube videos. It's been extremely useful for taking to the gym and allowing me to study while on the elliptical. But I got it in a different time. There weren't many tablets available at the time and a retina screen was critical for small text. As I've looked around recently, it's become very hard to justify getting a new iPad over something like the surface. How do people justify the purchase in 2017? Seriously asking as I am looking to replace my iPad with something in the next few weeks.
- wil421 10y agoHave an iPad 3, I find a lot of apps to be close to unusable at this point. Safari is a huge offender and it's full of ui ticks when I open the app or webpage. It seems all my apps are struggling. It's very hard for me to justify a new iPad. I really feel apple could've gone with the OS X on an iPad approach and really taken the whole market. Instead they are slowly adding iOS to Mac OS.
- mozumder 10y agoTurn off all background notifications, and it'll run like new. It didn't become slower. You just added a lot more stuff for it to do.
- dahauns 10y agoSorry, but no. Did a factory reset and installed only a minimum of stuff, turned off as much as is sensible. Still runs like a dog.
- mozumder 10y agoIf you use the iPad Mail program, how many email accounts is your mail program connected to? I reduced mine to 1 and it changed everything.
- wietsehage 10y agoStarts making a lot more sense when you try to forsee the future product lineup: # Was iPad Mini 2 (7.9) iPad Mini 4 (7.9) iPad Air 2 (9.7) iPad Pro (9.7) iPad Pro (12.9) MacBook Air (13) MacBook (12) MacBook Pro (13) MacBook Pro (15) # Becomes iPad (9.7) iPad Pro (10.5) iPad Pro (12.9) MacBook (12) MacBook Pro (13) MacBook Pro (15)
- kalleboo 10y agoYou're missing the iPad Mini 2 in "was", that was discontinued today
- wietsehage 10y agoFixed, thanks!
- davidsawyer 10y agoWhat about the iPad Mini 4? That's still currently in their offering.
- arihant 10y agoI'm extremely put off by Apple line up getting frustratingly confusing. The devil is in the details here. There was a time, where you could simply trust that an Apple product is built like a tank, that a technology once introduced (like, say, glass screens, or force touch) will always at least be default in the upcoming models. But it is frustrating that Apple started removing fundamental features in a random fashion, even from flagship products with no intimation of them. Retina Macbook Pro does not have a glass screen. Users did not realize that until the staingate issue cropped up. It feels even blowing air on the screen will pull off coating. In this iPad, they conveniently removed the lamination. I cannot even imagine Apple doing that back in the day. Imagine a version of iPhone, let's call it 4E, which does not have 3G. It feels like I have to do a spec comparison about everything before deciding which Apple product to buy. Because there is no knowing what they silently removed.
- buildbuildbuild 10y agoI'd argue that moving from "iPad Air 2" to "iPad" is a step in the right direction, but I agree with your sentiment. "iPad Mini 4" is the most confusing title in the lineup currently, but I expect them to eschew its version number as well at some point. I prefer the "Mid YYYY" style of versioning Apple uses on other products.
- tptacek 10y agoWait, what? What's "Staingate"? My screen isn't glass? I'm confused. I took a (1 generation older) rMBP to the Apple Store a few months back to get a keyboard replaced. I had a stuck pixel or two (I'd dropped it about 30-40 times) and the guy at the store told me there was a screen coating issue (he pointed to the black side of the screen) and said I could get a free screen replacement if I wanted it. Is that "Staingate"?
- whostolemyhat 10y agoThe scrolljacking on that page is painful. Maybe it's just the massive images they're loading that's causing the chug on my machine (Macbook Pro), but it's really off-putting.
- goalo 10y agono 3d touch? guess 3d touch is dead then.
- prodikl 10y agoits a pro feature, are you a pro?
- sgt 10y agoI use my iPad 2 every day. I bought it in 2011, so it's basically 6 years old and battery is still in great quality. I disabled a few animations/transitions and such, and I run iOS 10. It's not as fast as it used to be (newer iOS not being optimized for slower iPads) but it's still perfectly usable for reading books on the Kindle app, some surfing etc. When I am not using it, I tend to put it in Airplane mode.
- knd775 10y agoIf it's on iOS 10, it's not an iPad 2. Also, the iPad 2 I got rid of like 4 years ago was horribly slow and pretty much useless at that point.
- woof 10y agoCorrect, the oldest iPad running iOS 10 is the first Retina -aka iPad 4. I bought mine in 2012, still using it daily.
- NocturnalWaffle 10y agoThe first retina was actually the 3, which I have. I think the only upgrade in the 4 though was a switch to lightning. (Maybe some spec boosts)
- gurkendoktor 10y agoThe iPad 4 is roughly twice as fast as the iPad 3. Won't help it though, I'm sure Apple will kill 32-bit iOS in autumn.
- bluthru 10y ago>but it's still perfectly usable for reading books on the Kindle app Reading books on a low-res display sounds terrible. Why not just buy a Kindle if you read a lot?
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- Gentenop 10y agoFor me the choice is easy: do I need a 7" tablet for every day use, a 9.7" tablet for reading and watching movies, or a big iPad 12.9" with a Pencil for graphics? If the choice is storage space and LTE, I go with what I need or want. If any of this seems confusing, I recommend stopping by an Apple Store, they can clarify features and benefits.
- gchokov 10y agoDecent price for the non-Pro model. Might get one.
- bitmapbrother 10y agoCan't innovate anymore, my ass.
- erikig 10y agoAll hail the Paradox of Choice!
- wnevets 10y agoI know kids and grandparents that use tablets all the time but not really anyone outside of those age groups. Is anyone else finding that to be the case? I know I personally haven't used the ipad in months if not years at this point.
- l1ambda 10y agoTablets are like nunchucks...cool but useless.
- chrisper 10y agoThe only reason I will buy a tablet soon is to be able to watch movies on a long flight. But it won't be an iPad. It will be a $50 tablet from Amazon.
- theGimp 10y agoI use mine all the time to read books / articles... and to kill time.
- DoodleBuggy 10y agoExact same situation I observe, though I know a lot of parents who are instead opting for a Kindle Fire for their kids since it's much cheaper to replace and it's mostly used for videos and simple games anyway.
- jccalhoun 10y agoI don't have an ipad but an android tablet. I use it daily. Sit on the couch watching tv, play candy crush or something, and I do almost all my leisure reading on it.
- ghaff 10y agoNot really. I have the big iPad Pro that I often use around the house but admittedly not daily. (It is essentially my control panel for YouTube and Netflix casting to my TV though.) ADDED: Since I got a couple of Chromebooks, I find I often grab one of them if I'm going to be doing a lot of typing--e.g. for searches. But an old iPad 3 is my go to device for planes. Video, games, reading (because I don't want to carry a Kindle in addition to a tablet.) I actually got one of the cheap Kindle Fires to checkout for travel but I ended up going back to the iPad because I like it better.
- shams93 10y agoThe most comedic thing about Apple is that my raspberry pi3 with chromium has support for webmidi and webrtc but not even the iPad pro can do webrtc chat with mobile Safari. Sure I know they're not fans of the web but it has to be hurting them at this point when a $35 system has more browser capabilities than a $1000 device.
- draw_down 10y agoThey don't sell on feature checklists
- nsxwolf 10y agoThis might get me back into iPads. I had a 4th gen, and it broke right around when I transitioned into the Plus sized iPhones. Spending $500 on a new iPad didn't seem like it was all that necessary considering my phone now did an OK job replacing it. But at $329 it's a lot more attractive.
- roflchoppa 10y agoThis feels like the release of the "the new iPad" which was after the iPad two, but housed a Retina display, internals were the same if I recall correctly.
- shurcooL 10y agoDoes anyone use a cellular iPad mini as a phone replacement?
- scott_karana 10y agoApple doesn't give you the "Phone" app on iPads, do they?
- shurcooL 10y agoNo, but there are VoIP solutions, such as Google Voice, FaceTime audio, Skype, etc.
- jrnichols 10y agoI think it's a decent product at a lower price point. I just got rid of my 1st gen iPad Mini and was looking at the iPad Air. This product fits perfectly in my budget and what I wanted. I still wish that the cellular one wasn't $100 more though.
- reubenswartz 10y agoThis is a nice upgrade, but my iPad2 is still going strong for what I need. (If I could get an iPad with pencil support for $329 or even $429, that might be a different story. Looks like I'll wait another year.)
- tooFastFuckYou 10y agoAnd I'll bet Apple still cluelessly cripples the non-cellular version by omitting (or disabling) GPS on it. In a world where people are finally realizing that tablets are mostly pointless gimmicks, Apple still hasn't.
- wenbert 10y agoWho needs this?!
- qball12 10y agoNo GPS on Wi-Fi Model, Seriously?
- philfrasty 10y agoAnyone actually uses an iPad excessively? I owned 2 (non retina then retina mini) and it has been the least used Apple product over the last 25 years for me. - Looks great in marketing/ads - Want to read? Naaah too uncomfortable to hold - Want to work? Naaah working on a touch-device is no fun - Want to play? Naaah got a gaming-console for that - Want some music? Naaah got my iPhone - Everything else: iPhone