mad1at35

Sounds like they might be having some QC issues, either from a parts supplier or during assembly. The manufacturing traffic-jam post pandemic is probably not helping and seems to be causing all sorts of issues and supply problems. At least Apple seems to have weathered that storm reasonably well because of their supply chain mastery . Unlike say a company like Cisco who’ve been quoting ridiculous lead times on some of their network switches and Wi-Fi products.  Obviously buying power really does pay dividends in manufacturing!

What about GPU performance?

The article mentions CPU differences but GPU performance is not really touched upon and there is also a marked difference there. The iPad Pro’s GPU / Compute performance is extremely good for a tablet, and much higher than the A10. This is important for VR, graphically intensive applications and some graphically detailed games (probably not Crossy Road though!).

Part of the overall performance increase of the A10X compared to the A10 was that it was the first A series SoC to use a process size of 10nm; the A10 is built on a 16nm process. Most of the rest of the speed difference comes from increases in cores and I believe having a wider memory bus (128-bit like later X series SoC’s).

What we really need is CorelDraw for iPad and Mac, not another CAD program 🙄 AutoCAD 360 Or Fusion 360 do the job nicely.

Why oh why do companies keep releasing cut down apps instead of full featured stuff. If serif can do with with the Affinity range then why can’t Corel or Adobe 🤔🙄🙄

Even Microsoft have put full featured Office on Mac, and a cut down, but usable edition ion iPad.

Come on guys give us something really useful, PLEASE!

One thing I think that was missed in this discussion is the audio. I have a an iPad Pro and an Air 2 (and a mini) and the iPad Pro audio is so much better than the others it's like night and day. Not as good as a decicated Hifi, or even my Ruark speaker, but still outstanding for a handheld device.

There are many ifs and buts with the line of reasoning, but part of the problem with this utopian vision is that parts of iCloud are problematic, unreliable or a bit clunky. It needs more work.

Still Microsoft can't crow too much, OneDrive is poor and trying to download updates can be variable. The business side is much better but then it cost, a lot!

The best example of a cloud service is Dropbox. It really is EXCELLENT. I had an inclusive OneDrive subscription with office 365 but chose to continue paying for Dropbox. Both Apple and MS should take a look a that service.

The other issue with cloud services is that it relies on a great internet connection. It's okay if you have 50Mbit, 100Mbit or even gigabit connections. In the UK that's a big variable IF! Where I live I'm lucky to get 3Mbit down so setting up my wife's new iPad from an iCloud backup took hours upon hours. Send she didn't have that much stuff. And sets downloading music. My new 128gb iPad mini is still going now!

Even if you have a good internet connection it may not help. At work I compared an FTTC and ADSL connection. Speed test shows that the FTTC is over two times faster than the ADSL connection (55Mbit Down, 7 Mbit up v 22Mbit down v 1Mbit up), with similar latency on both.

Durng the day on the FTTC connection any access to Apples CDS is limited to 150Kbps - 300Kbps, whereas the ADSL is chugging along at an average 2.5Mbps! Joke! During the evening the FTTC is upto a nice 4-6Mbps.

And it happens on three other FTTC connections I have tried. The ISP's even admit traffic shaping!

So until the Internet is much much better in every country (not just Korea and Spain), and ISP's improve their core network, then forget it.

Apple really need to include a local document file system in iOS 10, a bit like how Dropbox works on OS X etc