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Apple announces new iPad Pro with trackpad support and a wild new keyboard cover

58 points by dhruvarora013 7y ago

TGMylo 7y ago
I'm looking forward to this being released. I briefly tested an iPad pro and was very impressed but wished it had trackpad support so I'm definitely holding off on buying one until this comes out.
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Octoth0rpe 7y ago
> [the keyboard alone] will cost a whopping $299 for the 11-inch model and $349 for the 12.9-inch version. Oof. I think most apple products are fairly priced (especially their ios products), that's pretty exceptional. IIRC, you can regularly pick up the 9.7" ipad for $299. It's hard to imagine the R&D, materials, and other misc costs (marketing, etc) and even a generous markup would exceed even $150 for the keyboard, let alone twice that.
- rock_artist 7y ago
  The suffix Pro by itself makes any Apple product price more expensive.
  - sebazzz 7y ago
    I sincerely wonder if Apple would just test how much they can ask for their products.
romanovcode 7y ago
Why do they have to make this horrible camera pop-out? It means that you cannot place the iPad comfortably on the table to write on it. I cannot understand it - to me it is horrible, horrible design, I like to think that Steve Jobs would never allow such a garbage product decision. Why would you need a powerful camera on iPad anyway?
- ceejayoz 7y ago
  > I like to think that Steve Jobs would never allow such a garbage product decision. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Rokr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Rokr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_USB_Mouse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_USB_Mouse Yeah, Jobs would've never allowed a shitty product.
  - lowdose 7y ago
    That's not fair both those were done in an effort to survive. Apple as a company had more financial resources than they can spend.
    - ceejayoz 7y ago
      What survival purpose did the roundness of the mouse provide?
- Luc 7y ago
  > Why do they have to make this horrible camera pop-out? My conclusion is that you're meant buy a case (which is super profitable for them).
- LeifCarrotson 7y ago
  I don't think it would be better to have a worse camera. You can't fit much camera at all in 5.9mm anyways, and cameras are useful. What would be better is if the whole thing were as thick as required by the camera module - a "whopping" 8mm or so. You could use this difference to make it stiffer and more durable (it's going to be uncomfortably weak to hold at 5.9mm), to add more battery capacity, or to improve the thermal performance.
- throwaway55554 7y ago
  You had me up until "Steve Jobs would never...". I mean, at what point are we going to let the man rest?
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tomcam 7y ago
Still no Esc key.
numpad0 7y ago
Dialogue Flybook, is that you!? After a decade — and half!?

58 points by dhruvarora013 7y ago

I'm looking forward to this being released. I briefly tested an iPad pro and was very impressed but wished it had trackpad support so I'm definitely holding off on buying one until this comes out.

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Octoth0rpe 7y ago

> [the keyboard alone] will cost a whopping $299 for the 11-inch model and $349 for the 12.9-inch version. Oof. I think most apple products are fairly priced (especially their ios products), that's pretty exceptional. IIRC, you can regularly pick up the 9.7" ipad for $299. It's hard to imagine the R&D, materials, and other misc costs (marketing, etc) and even a generous markup would exceed even $150 for the keyboard, let alone twice that.

rock_artist 7y ago
The suffix Pro by itself makes any Apple product price more expensive.
- sebazzz 7y ago
  I sincerely wonder if Apple would just test how much they can ask for their products.

romanovcode 7y ago

Why do they have to make this horrible camera pop-out? It means that you cannot place the iPad comfortably on the table to write on it. I cannot understand it - to me it is horrible, horrible design, I like to think that Steve Jobs would never allow such a garbage product decision. Why would you need a powerful camera on iPad anyway?

ceejayoz 7y ago
> I like to think that Steve Jobs would never allow such a garbage product decision. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Rokr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Rokr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_USB_Mouse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_USB_Mouse Yeah, Jobs would've never allowed a shitty product.
- lowdose 7y ago
  That's not fair both those were done in an effort to survive. Apple as a company had more financial resources than they can spend.
  - ceejayoz 7y ago
    What survival purpose did the roundness of the mouse provide?
Luc 7y ago
> Why do they have to make this horrible camera pop-out? My conclusion is that you're meant buy a case (which is super profitable for them).
LeifCarrotson 7y ago
I don't think it would be better to have a worse camera. You can't fit much camera at all in 5.9mm anyways, and cameras are useful. What would be better is if the whole thing were as thick as required by the camera module - a "whopping" 8mm or so. You could use this difference to make it stiffer and more durable (it's going to be uncomfortably weak to hold at 5.9mm), to add more battery capacity, or to improve the thermal performance.
throwaway55554 7y ago
You had me up until "Steve Jobs would never...". I mean, at what point are we going to let the man rest?
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tomcam 7y ago

Still no Esc key.

numpad0 7y ago

Dialogue Flybook, is that you!? After a decade — and half!?