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Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design

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Re: Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design

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Post by toxik »

rootusrootus wrote: post #10
laurent92 wrote: post #8

I have just noticed that they say “iPhone” not “the iPhone”, “the iPad”, “my iPad”. It’s as if they were talking about a person, such as “I’m using Hal”.

This is normal. E.g. cars are the same way. It's not "The Mustang" it is "Mustang".

”We have redesigned the Volvo XC60” is absolutely a normal way to talk. You are specifying a particular model from a line of models. “Volvos are some of the safest cars” is the way I would expect one to talk about Volvo’s cars in general. Companies don’t want their products to become generic names, that’s why they make these nonsense rules.

Re: Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design

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Post by thatguy0900 »

blowski wrote: post #23
turtlebits wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While the wording is hyperbole, going from a A12 to an A15 is quite the performance bump.

And what will I be able to do with that performance bump? I use a tablet mostly for taking notes, email and looking at websites. I can’t see how the former can get any quicker. The latter is slow mostly because of the websites themselves. Will games or office apps get faster or have new possibilities?

Things will be faster for a little bit then will bloat up to be just as slow as soon as the new hardware is standard

Re: Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design

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Post by dsjoerg »

Causality1 wrote: post #7

iPad mini features an all-screen design half inch bezel on all sides Removing the home button is not the same as making an all-screen design.

You read my mind. I wondered if the pictures were accurate, since there was clear non-screen space around the edges of the "all-screen design".

Re: Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design

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Post by monkeydust »

tmccrary55 wrote: post #25
post_break wrote: post #2

I will say, having USB C on my iPad is very nice. Now if only they would do it for the iPhone. After the CSAM stuff hit I switched back to Android and it's so nice to only need one cable for everything.

USB-C is a requirement on any device I buy these days. The amount of annoyance at tracking down a micro-usb cable and plugging it in has surprised me more than I thought.

100% this. It's now must have for any new tech for same reasons.

Re: Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design

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Post by defaultname »

anm89 wrote: post #6

I love how everything has to be a "revolutionary breakthrough" with apple. Wow the 73rd version of the 19th variation of the ipad gets better performance. What a break though.

Every single company that sells things does this. You are talking about an Apple event and promo page where they are quite literally giving a sales pitch for their new products. That they (over)hype their own products is not only not notable or interesting, it's entirely expected.

It is a bit bizarre that your comment, or variations of it, appears for every single Apple release. For those people so jaded and annoyed at the existence of Apple, why not just skip those threads?

There's something unique about Apple that draws in the detractors, however (seriously -- just look at the comments! What a junkyard of noise). It's a bit like a thread about the Super Bowl having hundreds of comments by people announcing that they aren't interested in the Super Bowl. Neat.

Re: Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design

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Post by handrous »

Whoa, what's with the huge bezel? My only Mini is a 1st-gen, but that has a tiny bezel on either side, with somewhat larger ones top-and-bottom, and I really like the resulting overall size & proportions. Did the top and bottom bezels shrink a ton so it just looks like the whole thing's bigger all around because they all match now, or did they widen the sides? Looking at the dimensions on WP it looks like the height is what got bigger, with the width staying the same, which is confusing—did they change the screen proportions, too? I thought the old size & look was just about perfect, like a trade paperback.

Re: Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design

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Post by rchaud »

laurent92 wrote: post #8

I have just noticed that they say “iPhone” not “the iPhone”, “the iPad”, “my iPad”. It’s as if they were talking about a person, such as “I’m using Hal”.

The name of the band is 'Pixies', but it's simply easier from a sentence-formation POV to refer to them as "The Pixies". Much as it may chagrin the purists.

Re: Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design

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Post by Grakel »

defaultname wrote: post #36
anm89 wrote: post #6

I love how everything has to be a "revolutionary breakthrough" with apple. Wow the 73rd version of the 19th variation of the ipad gets better performance. What a break though.

Every single company that sells things does this. You are talking about an Apple event and promo page where they are quite literally giving a sales pitch for their new products. That they (over)hype their own products is not only not notable or interesting, it's entirely expected. It is a bit bizarre that your comment, or variations of it, appears for every single Apple release. For those people so jaded and annoyed…

If Apple didn't do it above and beyond not just what is normal but what is reasonable without an eye roll, then it wouldn't appear in every announcement, would it?
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