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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 Jtsummers »

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”.

Do people say "On the Windows 11 we ..." or do they say "On Windows 11 ..."? It's a name, you don't have to put "the" in front of a name, the laurent92 (of course, the Ohio State University would disagree with that idea).

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

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Post by macintux »

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”.

They also have marketing rules they stick to regarding pluralization: https://twitter.com/pschiller/status/725791354769399808

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

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Post by turtlebits »

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.

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

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Post by ohgodplsno »

> Today, Apple is carbon neutral for global corporate operations, and by 2030, plans to have net zero climate impact across the entire business, which includes manufacturing supply chains and all product life cycles. This means that every Apple device sold, from component manufacturing, assembly, transport, customer use, charging, all the way through recycling and material recovery, will be 100 percent carbon neutral.

I see Apple is still keeping up with the lie that they are carbon neutral.

Buying CO2 allowances is not being carbon neutral. Your entire supply chain will never be carbon neutral. The world simply does not work that way.

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

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Post by tmccrary55 »

turtlebits wrote: post #14
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.

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

whoa a performance bump!

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

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Post by SamuelAdams »

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.

Reminds me of that scene in Transcendence [1] where the super intelligent AI person announces another breakthrough and the AI / person's wife says "oh great honey". At a certain point, incremental innovation loses its wonder.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendence_(2014_film)

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

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Post by handrous »

onkoe wrote: post #4

Everything looks nice, but I really don't mind these devices if I can't install my own desktop software on them. Seems nice for things like casual content consumption though

iPads are good companions for making music, for making art, for non-casual content consumption like reading textbooks or reference manuals, drilling flash cards, watching lectures, et c. The mini's maybe not as good for the latter as an 11.9" Pro (great size for reading textbook PDFs, even large enough to do two pages at a time if you have good eyesight), but still. With an external wireless keyboard, they can be better than a laptop for writing, because you can position the screen separately from the keyboard (without having to wastefully carry around a whole attached keyboard that you're not using) and you can draw (e.g. diagrams) directly on them if you want to, plus the semi-modal operation is great for focus.
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