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Re: New iPad Air, powered by M4

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Post by _neil »

etchalon wrote: post #124
Havoc wrote: post #117

To what end? I genuinely don’t get the purpose of these high end processors in a tablet. Like more power is nice but what would I do on it that needs it? Serious gamers mostly steer clear of Apple. Video editors presumably use desktops/laptops. Browsing doesn’t need power. Video watching doesn’t need it. Programming on iPads is cumbersome. Who is the target audience that gains from this?

People who buy things, mostly.

But is that really a market worth going after?

Re: New iPad Air, powered by M4

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Post by inerte »

spudlyo wrote: post #18

I'm about to head to the gym with my 12.9-inch 2017 vintage iPad Pro, which is still going strong. I prop it up on the elliptical trainer every other day or so for entertaining me while I grind out an hour of cardio. I use it for reading, watching YouTube, listening to music, audiobooks, etc. It's been my regular gym buddy for years, and is showing no signs of needing to be replaced. It's stuck on iPadOS 17.7.10, whi…

I bought and iPad Mini Nov 20th, 2013, and it still works. Slow, but it does. Enough for my daughter to watch YT Kids here and there.

Re: New iPad Air, powered by M4

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Post by singularity2001 »

Havoc wrote: post #117

To what end? I genuinely don’t get the purpose of these high end processors in a tablet. Like more power is nice but what would I do on it that needs it? Serious gamers mostly steer clear of Apple. Video editors presumably use desktops/laptops. Browsing doesn’t need power. Video watching doesn’t need it. Programming on iPads is cumbersome. Who is the target audience that gains from this?

Bill Gates, is that you?

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Post by hbn »

ohcomeonlol wrote: post #143

So base iphone 17 is 256 GB, and the iphone 17e which is the cheap version is 256 GB, and… the base version of the midrange ipad is 128 GB? What a spiteful company

I'm not really sure what's spiteful about that

I'd hazard a guess that people use significantly less storage on iPads than their phones. Phones get filled with photos and videos, whereas people use iPads primarily to browse social media and stream videos.

Re: New iPad Air, powered by M4

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Post by bigyabai »

crims0n wrote: post #59
manmal wrote: post #29

Tangential, iPadOS 26 is absolutely unusable on iPad Minis. Who needs window management on an 8" screen?

-you can turn it off globally in settings -some people use it docked -if it wasn't available, someone else would be complaining about that

> if it wasn't available, someone else would be complaining about that

Really? I genuinely know no one that uses Stage Manager.

Re: New iPad Air, powered by M4

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Post by hbn »

crims0n wrote: post #59
manmal wrote: post #29

Tangential, iPadOS 26 is absolutely unusable on iPad Minis. Who needs window management on an 8" screen?

-you can turn it off globally in settings -some people use it docked -if it wasn't available, someone else would be complaining about that

The Apple of the past never thought twice about people complaining about the lack of them implementing something that would be bad UX because they were confident in their design prowess.

Re: New iPad Air, powered by M4

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Post by russelldjimmy »

ohcomeonlol wrote: post #143

So base iphone 17 is 256 GB, and the iphone 17e which is the cheap version is 256 GB, and… the base version of the midrange ipad is 128 GB? What a spiteful company

I have an iPhone and an iPad Pro, and I use far less local storage on my iPad than I do on my phone. I know it sounds counter intuitive. I wouldn’t be surprised that this is the norm.
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