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I just want an 11" Macbook air again. Even with the M2 it would fly. iPads with this horsepower just don't make sense. It's like a V8 Miata with 4 donuts for tires.
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Give me a MB with LTE and I can finally stop buying®retting iPads. Maybe Apple moving into the modem space will get us there but it does feel like some sort of purposeful market segmentation
Just tether to your phone
Were it not for constantly updated buying guides from tech news sites, Im not sure anyone even Apple employees themselves would know which iPad to recommend to anyone.
Reminds me of when Steve cut all the numerical suffixes from the product line and drew the grid: home work portable iBook | PowerBook ----------------- desktop iMac | PowerMac
And for desktops, the Mac Mini, iMac and MacPro.
For phones, Apple was selling the 3G, 3GS, and iPhone 4.
For iPods, they were selling the Shuffle, Nano, regular iPod and the iPod Touch.
So selling three regular iPads and the Mini is nothing different now.
My 13” M4 iPad Pro Cellular is like a Mercedes. I could have bought a nice laptop instead. No financial analysis can justify it, but it’s luxurious and totally worth every penny.
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Studies have shown that when companies present an overwhelming number of choices, consumers often end up spending more. The psychology behind this is rooted in decision fatigue, where consumers are more likely to choose something familiar or assume that a more expensive product is the best choice.
I have always heard of different conclusions from too many choices. It was from a study known as the "Jam Experiment." [0] They found that in a grocery store that if customers had six choices, they bought more jam than if there were 14 choices. They termed it decision paralysis. [0] https://scottfenstermaker.com/too-much-choice-the-jam-experi...
No matter how it goes, it's always a negative experience for me.
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As someone struggling to find the limits of his M2 iPad air, you don't.
Hopefully 7 years from now you'll still be able to use it with modern apps, websites, and video content. IMO, The benefits of these chips are in longevity rather than pushing them to the limit today.
I'm so confused by their lineup. I'm in the market for a new iPad, but I can never remember the difference between an iPad, iPad Pro, and Air. What's the difference between this an a 13" Pro or Non-Air? I wish they'd just have a single line of iPads with different screen sizes but the same CPU and stylus support in every generation. I'm so tired of having to play the "compare every permutation" game when shopping. Ed…
Remember when Steve Jobs returned to Apple and simplified the product line? I feel like Apple needs that again.
Desktops - Mac Mini, iMac, Mac Pro.
Laptops - Air, MacBook, MacBook Pro
iPods - Shuffle, Nano and regular iPod
Phones - 3G, 3GS, and iPhone 4
The most annoying thing for me about the iPad lineup is that Apple hasn't released an iPad compatible version of their Journal app. IMHO, it's the perfect device for Journal. I want to write by hand and doodle and do all the other things you do in a paper journal. There's some reason they haven't done this and I'd love to know what it is. IMHO, it should have been iPad-first and then ported to the phone later.
I’ve been waiting for a Mac version. Why on earth would I type anything of any length on a phone when my favorite docked laptop setup is an option?
I owned multiple iPads and never found a compelling use case for them. I don't know why I keep buying them but they have been great computers for my parents so it's not like I buy to shelf them. Are there any use cases (apart from drawing maybe. I can't draw a stick figure if my life depended on it so that's not for me) for developers?