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There 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.
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So the 128Gb iPad Mini 4 has a smaller screen and a slower chip than the new 128Gb, but it's only £10 cheaper?
It is hard to see Apple keeping the mini around for much longer. I assume they are simply running down stock and will remove it soon, before end of the year.
If the cheap mini goes away will there be some Android OEM that steps into that market? Or will business owners just suck it up and buy the 128GB version?
Throw 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.
Well 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?
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.
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So the 128Gb iPad Mini 4 has a smaller screen and a slower chip than the new 128Gb, but it's only £10 cheaper?
It is hard to see Apple keeping the mini around for much longer. I assume they are simply running down stock and will remove it soon, before end of the year.
Could not find what's new. Any hints ?
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That's two different stats, weight and thickness. There are no weird units or combination units in play.
Apple 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.
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
There 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.
There 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.
Sure, but he cut stuff like printers, cameras, and other crazy crap they used to make. Even when he was still alive they had different-sized iPods, iPads, and more. Computers have always come in different sizes: 13", 15", and 17". What is the difference between a 13" and a 15"? Does it make it harder to buy? Perhaps, but you wouldn't kill the 15" just so people don't get confused.
Dunno if there are other fogeys like me who remember the days going back to the Imagewriters, Stylewriters and Laserwriters -- those were fantastic printers in the pre-USB era where third party printer pickings were quite slim for Apple users.
In the late 80s, you could even get a third party scanner in the shape ink cartridge called a Thunderscan for the Imagewriter.
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Most 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.
Devs use function keys a lot, on the Mac? I'm a web developer and am keyboard-centric, but I've never ever had to use one function key from I can remember. What are they used for? I do use the ctrl key while in the terminal, but what I am missing with the function keys..?
no 3d touch? guess 3d touch is dead then.