Refurbished 12.9-inch iPad Pro now on sale through Apple's online store
Apple on Tuesday began sales of refurbished 12.9-inch iPad Pro models, offering substantial discounts ahead of an anticipated fall refresh.
Base 32-gigabyte Wi-Fi units are priced at $679 in the U.S., $120 off their usual cost. Mid-tier 128-gigabyte options are $809 -- $140 off -- while top-of-the-line 4G cellular versions are $919, $160 below normal.
Refurbished iPads come with a new battery and shell, as well as a one-year warranty. Third-party retailers have occasionally sold the 12.9-inch Pro for less, however, making it worth checking pricing guides first.
People worried about obsolescence may also want to wait until later this fall, as Apple will likely upgrade the 12.9-inch Pro with a faster processor, and improvements seen on 9.7-inch models, such as a True Tone display and a rear camera flash. Other changes are possible as well, but to date very few rumors have surfaced.
Base 32-gigabyte Wi-Fi units are priced at $679 in the U.S., $120 off their usual cost. Mid-tier 128-gigabyte options are $809 -- $140 off -- while top-of-the-line 4G cellular versions are $919, $160 below normal.
Refurbished iPads come with a new battery and shell, as well as a one-year warranty. Third-party retailers have occasionally sold the 12.9-inch Pro for less, however, making it worth checking pricing guides first.
People worried about obsolescence may also want to wait until later this fall, as Apple will likely upgrade the 12.9-inch Pro with a faster processor, and improvements seen on 9.7-inch models, such as a True Tone display and a rear camera flash. Other changes are possible as well, but to date very few rumors have surfaced.
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When the iPad originally came out everybody was surprised that Jobs was able to Price it starting at $499 when earlier tablets were more expensive. Jobs also cut the price of the original MacBook Air (that's what motivate me to buy mine). The entry level i9.7 inch Pad pro is $100 overpriced. The 12.9 inch Pro is $200 over priced. Without a price cut I think that the next two quarters of sells will fall off the Cliff now that the initial surge for new models is over.
The iPad pro should also support multiple user/accounts for families and small offices.
The Transistor Radio is almost obsolete. I mean the real transistor radio - the first ones to market. People today can hardly envision anything less than FM or Satellite Radio. They can hardly remember the dial telephone or the "party line" telephone. It was on The Andy Griffin Show - who was Andy Griffin they will say. Who was Walter Cronkite ?
Talk radio is not an improvement - it is a disappointment of the system(s) - Remember when they reported the news ? Remember when CNN televised the beginning of a war instead of having to go to a Movie Theater to watch a newsreel.
All the things you thing Apple should have on the "next" great thing have probably been considered and prototyped in their labs or some other lab somewhere. Cost to Market and the Price the Masses are willing to pay dictates what you have available. Believe me, it can be made - if you complain about the price ($) you probably would not have bought it anyway. You just want to complain.
If you pay enough, you can generally get it or get one - Whatever it is. There are some exceptions. A good hamburger at a fast food restaurant is one exception. Consistently good service in a restaurant is not always possible. The chains cannot control all the factors. I cannot get quality food more than 3 times in a row at the same restaurant. They cannot get the same quality of employees no matter how stringent the interview process. They are just not there. A certain amount of pride and willingness to work is necessary and the $/hour does not buy that.
Quit complaining about the Apple Products, they will produce what will sell. That is it. They make the Money $'s which is what we the stockholders demand - a really good profit. If they did not make the profit, I would go to another company. If you don't invest, then you might not understand this. By the Way, the Stockmarket in general is legalized gambling. If you had the information, everyone would have it. It is a crap shoot based upon knowledge you have. By the time, you know, it is too late, everyone else knows. However, you can make informed investments and wait until they pan out.
If the products cost too much, go buy Android products or Windows products. I buy the best and it is not those - they are good enough, but not good enough for me. I am not rich, but I want the best I can afford. Be it a Computer, a house, a car, a weapon, a hamburger or a light bulb. There is little profit in a business if you make a low end consumer items. You have to sell a heck of a lot of low profit items to make a reasonable amount. The Risk is lower and you make less. That is it.
Take the risk and the reward is maybe there. Don't take it, it is not usually there. Others who did not take the risk are your competition. Microsoft has given up in many areas - they could not compete. They had it made when they were the only ones, only to have their lunch eaten by others. Microsoft still makes a lot of money, but they don't have it made in all areas. Neither does Apple. Neither do you. There is always someone willing to do your job better and perhaps for less - we are a global economy with local pockets.
I sure would like to have an iPad Pro, but I did not want to pay the price or need to pay it for the 1st Generation product. I could have, but did not want to do it. I do want to do it for the 2nd Generation iPad Pro and also the 2nd Generation Watch. They will be worth it to me. I hope they will be worth it to you. May I remind you that 3 years ago you could not afford to buy either. Apple made them affordable and the other tech companies who did not take the risk are now trying to copy them. If you could have gotten a Mac with Software in 1984 like you can today, what would you have been willing to pay ? A Lot - but you could not get them then.
Don't trust politicians - most are part of the government and are not there (or here) to help you. They worked for the jobs - now that they have them, don't expect them to work for you. They will tell you want you want to hear, not what they have done for you in the last few years, but what they will do in a few more years if you re-elect them. Follow the money ($'s) to find out some very interesting information. Evaluate the Risk. See who really owns or runs a foundation or a church or a business. If they have illegal ownership, it is something to be avoided.
Buy Apple, not the Clinton Foundation Hype.
Geeesh, the op just suggested they lower prices a bit (not be a loss leader or sell for a buck)too goose sales to gain some market share to expand services potential when sales appear to be dropping, a perfectly reasonable opine. If you disagree and believe Apple has their products priced fairly for what they are trying to do to expand services etc, that's fair and reasonable assertion too(although if sales are dropping, what is your solution?Btw hint... Apple says they believe they will rebound), ... but wow man, just wow, did someone kick your dog tonight or something?
Lost?
Wrong forum.
I can almost guarantee you that an iPad would have performed better. Any device I use now with a spinning hard drive is terribly slow compared to solid state drives. iPads use memory much more efficiently than Windows... programs for Windows are more expensive, etc.
If you look at any industry, the companies with the biggest marketshare are the ones which can produce the cheapest, middle-of-the-road products. Cheap and good enough will always win if all you care about is marketshare. Trying to move things forward by using leading-edge technologies, creating your own designs, optimizing performance/power consumption, and going the extra mile to make things easier to use is expensive. If you simply care about marketshare, you'll wait until all of those things are already commonplace (the work has been done by others, and subsequently cloned and made cheaper) and the cost to integrate them has come down before you add them to your products. That's not Apple.
However, as professional graphic design apps are ported to (or new ones emerge to) take advantage of the Apple Pencil, and design shops learn to utilize cloud storage (with proper collaboration/revision support), the overall workflow will be much nicer and more efficient. Probably still a few years out, but that's where Apple likes to be.
On a side note: I remember an old design shop my wife worked at where they cobbled together their own in-house file server for collaboration, and people routinely lost work because someone else clobbered it and there was no way to roll back to previous revisions. So everyone just saved their work locally and prayed they didn't experience a hard drive failure.
No one buys ANYTHING from Apple because it's prices are lower than a competitor..
Apple has never been for the price conscious consumers..
Nothing has changed. If it's too expensive for you, why complain about it online? It's like complaining about Ferrari prices and then listing off cheaper car equivalents....
I'm guessing, and this is just a guess, that Apple maintains making a profit by not discounting their products just to move more units to sit on store shelves...
I'm also guessing that even though iPads are iOS devices, there upgrade cycle is closer to that of a computer.
I just upgraded from an original ipad mini to a ipad pro 12.9.
So 4 years in between upgrades opposed to upgrading my phone annually... Lower prices wouldn't have made me upgrade my ipad, I simply didn't need too.