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The article was more or less okay, until he blew it with this: > More likely, since it’s an iOS device, Apple will call this gizmo an iSomething. It will be im
by devx 13y ago
The article was more or less okay, until he blew it with this:
> More likely, since it’s an iOS device, Apple will call this gizmo an iSomething. It will be impossibly strong and light — under a pound — the battery will last for days, and it ought to cost $199 for 11-inch and $249 for 13-inch, but Apple being Apple they’ll charge $249 and $349.
Can he really be that clueless? Does he even realize that even a large iPad is heavier than 1 pound? How could an iPad-like device with keyboard and a bigger battery be even lighter?
Also the price makes no sense at all - again because of the extra keyboard and battery, and also because there's no way Apple would price such a device below an iPad Mini. That would mean using a processor, RAM and storage that are even more obsolete than the ones in the iPad Mini.
That's crazy. If anything such a machine would have all of those even better than the large new iPad 5, and my guess is it would cost $700, while still maintaining more or less the same amount of profit as a Macbook Air (since the chip and storage would be so much cheaper than on the Air).
It would also increase Apple's average ARPU, and would bring them higher total profit and revenue, since these will be cheaper than Air, and Apple will sell more of them (but fewer than iPads, still).