iPad 9.7‑inch

Post by cylinder714 » Tue, Mar 21, 2017, 4:26 PM UTC

squeaky-clean wrote: post #149

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It's quite obvious the Pixel is the "flagship" Android Google phone. And Pixel C is the "flagship" Android tablet. The pixel is advertised everywhere as a Google phone. Who makes it doesn't really come up in their product communication much. And the 'flagship' label is literally in the title of the Pixel products on Amazon. And on the website it's called "Pixel, phone by Google". > People buy a low end Android phone…

For people on Hacker News, sure. But try asking your grandma what the flagship Android phone is and what the flagship Apple phone is. It is much more confusing for the average person than you'd think. > I don't really see why it matters if your mom thinks she has a "Samsung" or an "LG". Because when people ask if she has an Android she says "No." > There's more to Android phones than the base OS. I know, that's my co…

Post by mozumder » Tue, Mar 21, 2017, 4:27 PM UTC

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If I had a dollar for every time I've seen a kid at a restaurant playing on their IPad while the family eats...

So terrible... what would you do, not allow children to have fun?

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 21, 2017, 4:28 PM UTC

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Current iPad sizes: - iPad Pro 12.9" - iPad Pro 9.7" - iPad 9.7" - iPad Mini 4 8" (edit: thanks pdpi/trymas) It really should just be iPad (9.7) or iPad Pro (12.9) should it not? Now the customer has to decide between two 9.7 models with not so obvious differences between the two? And now there are two (edit: three) different iPad pages on the sales website you have to go through. This changes the immediate conversat…

No? I have a 9.7 Pro. I have the Pro because it's one of the best tablet solutions on the market. I actively do not want a 12.9" tablet, and a non-Pro doesn't support the Apple Pencil. I think what we're seeing here is not so complicated: it's that customers have strong size preferences, and that they're often orthogonal to their price sensitivities.

Post by alasdair_ » Tue, Mar 21, 2017, 4:29 PM UTC

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JohnnyConatus wrote: post #89

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.

I always thought that was the iDevice's strength. With Android, you have nothing actually made by Google but by OEMs, with different names and branding that don't give any real information. Which phone is "the android"? My mom doesn't think she has an android phone, she thinks she has an LG and that Android is a different thing. People buy a low end Android phone and hate the entire ecosystem because the phone perfor…

Post by ajross » Tue, Mar 21, 2017, 4:30 PM UTC

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One of the reasons why he did that was because Apple was dying. They didn't have money and resources to support many models, and they needed to focus and do one thing right. So it was the right decision. As much as I like simplicity, if you look around there are tons of cases like this around us, and that's not because these companies are idiots who don't understand simplicity but it's because their products have rea…

Under Jobs during the early days they never sold many products at once. There was the old Apple II and new Apple II. Seeing as they went past 6 revisions of Apple II there was considerable churn. There was never much of a 1st party peripheral market. Like we see with iWatch. That nearly exclusively 3rd party.