USB-C?? Is hell freezing over or good regulations making their magic?
iPads have had USB-C for years now, which just makes the iPhone situation even more silly
Apple unveils redesigned iPad
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#32What on earth is a ‘liquid retina’ display?
Liquid refers to it being an LCD (Liquid-crystal display), so not OLED.
Retina is Apple's name for a high pixel density display, in this case it's 2360x1640 pixels at 10" so 264 PPI?
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#33> The stunning 10.9-inch Liquid Retina display extends to the edges No it doesn't. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/images/product/ipad/standard/...
*for some definition of "edges", specifically the edges of the display, hence the display extends to the edges, by definition
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#34I really like iPads but I haven’t used mine for years now. It’s sitting in a box somewhere. There doesn’t seem to be a need for it, for me.
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#35They finally killed the headphone jack in the plain-jane iPad, what a shame. I'm not exactly a tablet person -- my ereader suits me just fine for reading, which is all I'd want to do on a tablet, anyway -- but why do people put up with this? I understand that phones are small, and thus "hard" to fit the jack into... but why remove it from tablets?
Apple sells a lot of wireless headphones.
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#36still a rectangle with rounded corners.
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#37They finally killed the headphone jack in the plain-jane iPad, what a shame. I'm not exactly a tablet person -- my ereader suits me just fine for reading, which is all I'd want to do on a tablet, anyway -- but why do people put up with this? I understand that phones are small, and thus "hard" to fit the jack into... but why remove it from tablets?
“No. You don’t want or need that headphone jack”.
…… anonymous Apple designer.
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#38This iPad has the flat sides from the Air and Pro, but it's not compatible with the 2nd gen iPad pencil. Instead, they're releasing a USB-C adapter so you can charge it directly from the iPad (1st gen plugged directly into the iPad's lightning port).
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#39They finally killed the headphone jack in the plain-jane iPad, what a shame. I'm not exactly a tablet person -- my ereader suits me just fine for reading, which is all I'd want to do on a tablet, anyway -- but why do people put up with this? I understand that phones are small, and thus "hard" to fit the jack into... but why remove it from tablets?
They had to because it's impossible to water proof the iPad with a headphone jack, or because there's not enough space inside the device, I forgot what was the official reason they used for the iPhone. The unofficial reason is that no headphone port means more AirPod sales.
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#40USB-C on this is not the big news. The USB-C on Apple TV remote controller is the sign you're looking for. Apple is end of life-ing Lightning connector after all