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What 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?
Can someone explain what the “completely redesigned” references? It doesn’t look different than any ipads before to me.
The old 9th gen iPad still had a home button, fun colors, and a totally square screen. This update removes the home button, brings rounded display corners and colors and a new processor. And brings the non-Mini, non-Pro iPad into the same design language as the iPhone and the Mini/Pro iPads. There might still be a fingerprint sensor in the lock button, though.
I don't know if it's common, but I associate iPads with small kids, and maybe Apple wants to change that perception.
USB-C?? Is hell freezing over or good regulations making their magic?
They 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?
Edit: No, I can't really use bluetooth here since a) 99% of guitar amps have no BT support and b) the latency is noticeable.
> USB-C Nice! Please, the iPhone next. Ditch the legacy and outdated lightning jack.
The branding has gotten so confusing As far as I can tell this is the exact same design the iPad Air has had for a couple years now, but "iPad" (no descriptor) is a separate product, which until now still used the old-school form factor with the physical home button, etc. So this design isn't new at all for "iPad the line of devices", but it is new for "iPad the budget-tier iPad" ...but even with that information- is…
> is this model still worse than the Air somehow even though its design has been updated? Yes, in a myriad of ways! This iPad doesn’t have a laminated touchscreen, and it still uses the Gen. 1 Apple Pencil weirdly so no magnets and you need a type c to lightning adapter to charge it up.
> Apple Pencil (1st generation) is compatible with the new iPad. A new USB-C to Apple Pencil Adapter is required for pairing and charging and is included in the box with a new version of Apple Pencil (1st generation) for $99 (US).
I didn't think they even still made the first-gen Apple Pencil
So now we get to explain to grandma why this will work with some Apple Pencils but not others
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
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> is this model still worse than the Air somehow even though its design has been updated? Yes, in a myriad of ways! This iPad doesn’t have a laminated touchscreen, and it still uses the Gen. 1 Apple Pencil weirdly so no magnets and you need a type c to lightning adapter to charge it up.
Lol wow, I thought that was a typo but you're right: > Apple Pencil (1st generation) is compatible with the new iPad. A new USB-C to Apple Pencil Adapter is required for pairing and charging and is included in the box with a new version of Apple Pencil (1st generation) for $99 (US). I didn't think they even still made the first-gen Apple Pencil So now we get to explain to grandma why this will work with some Apple Pe…