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> Messy branding is now par for the course at Apple. The iPad line alone is something out of a Dell catalog: iPad, iPad 10thgen, iPad Air, iPad Mini, iPad Pro.
by islewis 3y ago
> Messy branding is now par for the course at Apple. The iPad line alone is something out of a Dell catalog: iPad, iPad 10thgen, iPad Air, iPad Mini, iPad Pro.
a comment from another thread this morning-
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39300741 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39300741
- skywhopper 3y agoI mean, Air, Mini, and Pro are all distinct form factors. It's confusing only to the extent that you might not know which one is "best" from a CPU/memory/storage POV. But Apple has succeeded for iOS products at least at making that distinction mostly meaningless: pick the form factor you want, then pick the storage capacity and sometimes the color, you're done.
- sofixa 3y agoIs the Air, the Mini or the no-named one the smallest?
- codezero 3y agoMy answer was that it was obvious but I went down a rabbit hole of comparison pages and learned the current Air is higher end than the current iPad.
- TylerE 3y agoMy suspicion is that that there is no iPad 11 and the iPad Air 6th Gen (with an M3 or something, maybe an M1 still) is the base model going forward. iPad 10 is still A14 Bionic, not Apple Silicon.
- ianburrell 3y agoiPad is the cheap one, the 10th generation is $449 vs $599 for Air. And the 9th is still being sold for $329. Lots of people want a basic tablet for browsing and don't need power for pseudo-laptop. The iPad Mini has A15 Bionic.
- TylerE 3y agoIn another year or two, the M1 will be 3 generations behind. At that point Apple might well just eat a small BOM cost difference. As processes shrink the previous nodes get cheaper.
- sofixa 3y agoHigher end, but is it smaller or bigger? And what about the Mini?
- Eric_WVGG 3y agoThe iPad Air is not a distinct form factor from the iPad.