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Gruber hints at this here: https://daringfireball.net/2021/05/the_2021_m1_ipad_pros https://daringfireball.net/2021/05/the_2021_m1_ipad_pros "If you already lo

Gruber hints at this here: https://daringfireball.net/2021/05/the_2021_m1_ipad_pros https://daringfireball.net/2021/05/the_2021_m1_ipad_pros "If you already love iPadOS, well, you’re in luck — go out and buy a new iPad Pro and I assure you, you’ll be delighted. For the rest of us, I have a feeling we need to see iPadOS 15 before we experience the true potential of these new (or any recent) iPad Pros. Three weeks until WWDC. "

dwaite 5y ago
Thats not necessarily because he knows anything. Apple is pretty predictable at the macro level. In March they release significant changes and additions which do not have significant breaking impact. These are often targeting educational/business features (MDM management, classroom management, iPad usage), specifically because of the annual educational buying cycle requires the ability to evaluate in April/May to plan fall purchasing. This is also considered the last chance to deprecate functionality on the current version. In June they announce new features and changes that will have breaking impacts on existing code in their annual September major release. If Apple doesn't have new iPadOS functionality announced in a few weeks, the expectation is that the next significant functionality would be March 2022, and that still would be limited to things which do not break existing iPadOS code.
raydev 5y ago
I think Gruber is being extremely optimistic here. It is indeed very strange that Apple is shipping new iPads every year, each revision making iPadOS even more comically out of touch with the hardware on which it runs. I'm sure Apple is planning something but we could just as easily be waiting another 2 years before iPadOS takes advantage of hardware capabilities, since Apple does plan ahead but they never tell us what they're planning. iPad-buyers are clearly fine with the current state of iPadOS, and Apple is clearly happy with the number of iPad-buyers. They're in no rush.

dwaite 5y ago

Thats not necessarily because he knows anything. Apple is pretty predictable at the macro level. In March they release significant changes and additions which do not have significant breaking impact. These are often targeting educational/business features (MDM management, classroom management, iPad usage), specifically because of the annual educational buying cycle requires the ability to evaluate in April/May to plan fall purchasing. This is also considered the last chance to deprecate functionality on the current version. In June they announce new features and changes that will have breaking impacts on existing code in their annual September major release. If Apple doesn't have new iPadOS functionality announced in a few weeks, the expectation is that the next significant functionality would be March 2022, and that still would be limited to things which do not break existing iPadOS code.

raydev 5y ago

I think Gruber is being extremely optimistic here. It is indeed very strange that Apple is shipping new iPads every year, each revision making iPadOS even more comically out of touch with the hardware on which it runs. I'm sure Apple is planning something but we could just as easily be waiting another 2 years before iPadOS takes advantage of hardware capabilities, since Apple does plan ahead but they never tell us what they're planning. iPad-buyers are clearly fine with the current state of iPadOS, and Apple is clearly happy with the number of iPad-buyers. They're in no rush.