Posted on 03/21/2017 1:58:01 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Apple just dropped a new iPad with all the excitement of an IRS audit,” Daniel Howley writes for Yahoo Finance. “That is to say, there was none. It feels like the company just woke up Tuesday morning and decided, ‘Hey, lets announce a new iPad.’ Instead of a flashy event like Apple usually holds when it debuts a new product, we simply got a press release. Ive had dentist appointments that were more thrilling than Apples latest announcement.”
“So why did Apple, the company that basically owns the tablet market, debut a new iPad without making a big show of it?” Howley writes. “Well, because the iPad isnt that exciting anymore. It simply doesnt warrant a lot of fanfare.”
“The tablet market isnt hot anymore and Apple knows it,” Howley reports. “To sweeten the pot for prospective consumers, Apple has moved the iPad into the budget market. Whereas the iPad Pro 9.7 starts at a pricy $599, the new iPad starts at $329. Thats pretty reasonable for a new iPad.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Dan is going to feel mighty silly when Apple unveils their new iPad Pro lineup at a special event within weeks. Today’s iPad was merely part of a press release dump of all of the things that wouldn’t fit, or merit inclusion, into the event’s schedule.
BTW, we told ya so:
iPads are too expensive relative to the perceived competition and Apple has obviously done a piss-poor job of marketing the iPad family (read: clearly explaining to the hoi polloi why they want an iPad over an Amazon or other Android tablet).
Sticker price is the biggest reason why iPad sales struggle to return to growth (the next biggest reason is that iPads’ useful lives last so damn long, they’re not rapidly replaced).
We would have purchased iPads for family members this year if they had been updated as they should have been for the holiday season and if the prices were a bit more palatable. Yes, we know what an iPad offers. Yes, we know they’re worth the money Apple’s asking for today; even being last year’s models. But, Apple should really do the math and consider making certain hardware more affordable in exchange for the backend revenue and increased mindshare and market share that will deliver.
For the same reason – mindshare – Apple should make their own Apple displays, even to the point of taking a loss of each and every one, so that other companies’ logos on frankly ugly products that do not match Apple design sensibilities are not in users’ faces all day long. That’s not a difficult concept to grasp; even an inveterate beancounter might be able to get it. MacDailyNews, January 6, 2017
SEE ALSO:
Apples new $329 iPad is thicker and slightly heavier than iPad Air 2 – March 21, 2017
Apple unveils new 9.7-inch iPad starting at new low price of just $329 – March 21, 2017 – March 21, 2017
Business use is going up? You must be referring to the business environment of 4-5 years ago, when all the talk was about iPads in businesses.
Nowadays, hardly anyone talks about iPads in business, and in fact, more businesses are removing them from use than are adopting them. Why invest money on a device which is losing ground to just about every other type of device out there, and could probably suffer from support, not only from Apple itself deciding to drop it, but from lack of support from developers, who have been dropping development since the huge sales drops are indicating that the device may not be worth developing for.
I keep up with technology, and what I see and hear and read, says something completely different from what you assert.
I live on my iPad
Very small piece of real estate.................
I am close. It would take me an hour to list all the ways I use it and the circumstances.
Pathetic thread. This has turned into a religios discussion.
All the electronic devices mentioned in this thread are highly useful to some people and useless to others.
They ate just tools. Pick the tool from the toolbox YOU get the most use out of. Most of us have multiple ptools for different uses.
This thread is becomubg a silly and childish argument.
Buy the tool you like. Dont put down other for finding a tool highly useful that you cant find uses for. Just because you cant see a tool’s need doesn’t make it a useless tool.
You don't keep up very well, or you read what you see with a very biased mindset.
Apple's iPad is more popular with businesses than consumers
by Tom Warren@tomwarren Aug 8, 2016, 9:28am EDT The VergeWhile Apple's iPad sales continue to decline overall, the tablet is surging in demand from an unlikely source. The New York Times reports that nearly half of all iPad sales are to corporations and governments, with high-end iPad sales to business customers particularly strong. "Apple is stronger in the enterprise market with its devices than it is with consumers," says Forrester analyst Frank Gillet, in a statement to the Times.
The boost from businesses and governments would have seemed highly unlikely six years ago when the iPad was originally launched, but Apple has been keen to woo businesses over to its mobile tablet in recent years. Apple teamed up with IBM to launch a range of business-focused iOS apps back in December 2014, and the company has also been working with Cisco and SAP to ensure iPads work well in enterprises.
Apple even teamed up with Microsoft to make the iPad Pro a success. During the tablet's launch, Microsoft's Office chief, Kirk Koenigsbauer, jumped on stage to demonstrate Office for iPad Pro. Microsoft has consistently tweaked its Office software for the iPad Pro ever since to make it more powerful, and the productivity suite even features in Apple's latest iPad Pro commercial. Apple wants everyone to believe that the iPad Pro is a real computer capable of real work, and it's clear that businesses are adopting it that way for their mobile computing needs.
Apple's fresh success in the enterprise is unusual for the company. Microsoft has typically dominated desktop computing inside businesses, and Steve Jobs always focused Apple on building products that consumers would love. Jobs even called IBM's best customers an "orifice," and famously gave IBM the finger in a classic photo during the 80s era when Apple competed aggressively with IBM. Apple even aired a commercial depicting IBM as Big Brother from the George Orwell novel.
Apple has an advantage over both Android and Windows for tablets in the enterprise. Google's Android security is often seen as inferior to iOS, and Windows has lacked touch-based apps to take advantage of a true mobile tablet mode. Under Tim Cook, Apple will now attempt to balance how it sells the iPad as the future of computing to both consumers and businesses. It's a delicate balance that will shape exactly what form factor the iPad evolves into in the future. Apple built the iPad Pro to replace Windows, and now it has to prove it truly can.
"Nearly half of iPad sales. . . " That would make approximately 30,000,000 of last year's iPad sales to enterprise level businesses. IBM itself is more than half way to switching its entire staff to Apple products and is pushing other major corporations to do the same, stating they too will save millions per year just in IT costs. The only article I can find on developers abandoning iOS and iPad comes from four years ago and that turned out to be completely wrong. The first article on a Google search for "Abounding iPad App development" is on page two and it refers to Android developers abandoning Android development for tablets in favor of developing for iPads because they can make money there.
So much for your distortions and lies.
I agree with you. Certain posters on this thread were looking to destroy the thread by igniting a flame war. Claiming a tool was useless because they had no need for it and then attacking anyone who demonstrated their use and the tools utility in multiple environments and mischaracterizing their original claim is TROLLING.
Thanks for your participation.
Taking a bulky laptop on the train every day is not practical and trying to do all that stuff with a cellphone would give me a splitting headache.
It also bailed me out when I had to sit in a hospital for a full day while my wife had a major operation. Everybody else in the waiting room were bored out of their minds, staring at the walls or leafing through a two-year old People magazine. The hours flew by and suddenly a nurse was tapping me on the shoulder to let me know that everything went well.
I hear you. I use it when I’m lost on the road, when I need a restaurant review, and then it will map my way to the restaurant.
I take it shopping and when I have conflicting products that I am unsure as to their quality I will look up the ratings and reviews right in the store. I mean, I have the power of the complete internet reviews in real time while I am deciding between several items to buy. It can be anything from a refrigerator purchase to what spaghetti sauce to try.
I can be at a historic monument and look up everything about the event in real time, then take a picture of it and send an email to family to show them.
I don’t have an iphone so maybe people with one think it can do anything an ipad can, and it may well be true. For my 62 year old eyes, I really appreciate the 10” screen of my ipad over the 4” screen of an iphone. If a 4” screen works for some people, more power to them. I want that big screen.
I am rarely without my ipad. It is truly a one-stop, do-it-all device.
No, I would not want to lug a laptop around for the same purpose, and finding a convenient place to put when standing up to use the laptop keyboard is not always possible let alone convenient. Never mind that my laptop isn’t cellular capable so if I can’t find a WiFi spot, I am screwed.
Though Apple might have won in certain aspects when compared to the Snapdragon 821, one has to keep in mind that, the processor alone does not make the smartphone, so, when it comes to the whole smartphone with specs and features, the iPhone 7 comes up real short.
Real short? How? You have not enumerated anything that reaches that level. You listed a higher, but useless screen resolution, that slows the graphic handling down immensely in every case. The processor only beats the Apple's in one instance, but that is because the test is optimized for JAVA code for testing for C compiling. Other benchmarks that test the same mathematics the A10fusion came out ahead. Unsecure expandable, but far slower memory cards. A high pixel count camera with lesser quality CCD, that doesn't qualify in quality to the ratings the iPhone camera gets from professional photographers. . . who use the iPhone camera for professional work, including making full length feature films, photo layouts in mainstream magazines including National Geographic, several covers of Time, Photography, Vogue, etc. What magazines has your 18Mpixel camera been used for? None, right?
Again, where are you going to be able to use your 2year warranty to get that phone repaired?
You make assumptions about what an Apple iPhone would cost with the features your no-name Chinese Android phone has, claiming it would be double what it is now., but in my view, it already bests the features your phone has. . and is better quality all around. . . and is backed by an American company. The reviews that place the Apple iPhone at the top are unequivocal. It is the best and fastest. Your phone is not even in the running. You won't even name what the maker is.
The final proof you have no factual argument worthy of the name is you always resort to ad hominem insults such as iFanatics and iZombies. That alone is enough to show you up for an Anti-Apple Hate Brigade Thread Troll.
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