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This is interesting, but I wonder how truthful it is. Last quarter, Apple’s iPad sales overall was UP 24% from the year before quarter. Much of that ruse was attributed to the new iPad Pro models.

so now we get this. We know the sales rise was real, along with the ruse in sales by dollar, so how real us thus, and if so, what does it mean? A rise in sales if 24% these days, is a lot. We can go back a bunch of years to look at iPhone sales to possibly make some sense of it. When Apple first came out with the big screen iPhones, sales jumped as people were really hyped over it. I warned people, here and elsewhere, that it would affect sales the next year and likely the year after that. So when sales were down about 15% next year, everyone was shocked, and we got more articles about peak iPhone sales and how that was the year before. Then, the next year, sales were flat to the “peak” sales, and the year after, sales rose again.

what happened? When the large screen phones came out a lot of people who would have upgraded the next year, upgraded that year. We also saw some people who would have upgraded two year later upgrading, though in smaller numbers. So when next year came, a lot of people who would have upgraded had already done so the year before and so sales fell. The second year after saw sales flat as some of those who would have bought phones had also already done so. By the third year after, sales were on their normal upward trajectory as very few people upgraded three years early to get the bigger phones.

we know that iPad sales overall had reached a peak, years ago and are down from that. They’re “too good”, which is everyone’s nightmare, if you’re a manufacturer. So it becomes really hard to have new features that move the needle enough to significantly boost sales.

i doybr very much if ipadOS has much to do with thus. I use mine for some heavy purposes and the OS has very little to do with it. I know a bunch of leopard,ex who also have complex apps who don’t let the OS limitations cause them problems. There are a small umber of very vocal people who keep that argument going. It’s not that I wouldn’t want to see some significant OS upgrades, but it doesn’t stop the device from being an excellent tool.

then, as we’ve seen in the forums here, there are those who are opposed to Apple adding these features to iPadOS. They believe that the iPad should be streamlines and straightforward to use. Both views are correct. Apple has been walking a tightrope between trying to add these significant feature sets for this who what mire control and keeping the UI simple for these who want that. It’s not easy. I’m convinced we’ll get more, as Apple adds them, they get criticized for nit being exactly what some people want, and of course, I’m reading how people differ in what they want.

anonymouse said:

Are we really certain that Apple didn't covertly engineer this coup? 

Yeah. He was under a lot of pressure. It had nothing to do g to do with Apple.

hmlongco said:

Penzi said:

Getting the narrow angle lens up to 48MP will be nice as well…

I use the telephoto more than the ultra wide and still waiting for that to be upgraded. 12MP is a bit lame.

I would have thought so too. But it turns out that most people use the ultra wide much more often than the tele. That new 48MP ultra wide is one major reason I’m upgrading from my 15 Pro Max.

I’ve had every Apple Remote and have bever had a problem and I don’t know of anyone else who has either. A lot of companies use the Apple Remote as their official supplied remote. If there were serious problems, it’s not likely other companies would be using it.

that said, it’s true that one report doesn’t make for a serious issue. But Samsung should have just given him a replacement, if not just for marketing purposes. I know that they are trying to say he did something so as to make it seem as though it’s not a design or manufacturing fault, but that always backfires. When the Note 7 began to explode or catch fire, it took Samsung a while to admit it was a real problem and issue a recall. Samsung is not known for honesty or reliability for a number of its products, or business  practices. They just had another major product recall in their appliance line.

A friend of mine was a high level programmer for Chase bank. We were discussing programming disasters. He told me of one major problem. They were updating a database for a major database center in the bank. They went through a number of testing procedures. First, a handful of computers. Then a department and so on. When they were satisfied, on a weekend, when things were slow, they rolled it out to the entire company. The entire system immediately crashed.

weve all had experiences where new software causes unexpected problems. It seem that here, a major mistake they made was to continue updating other software for devices while this problem existed, making it impossible le to revert to the previous system while the tracked the problems down and, hopefully, eliminated them. Chase was able to revert until they found and fixed the problem. That’s usually a standard thing for Marge companies. As we know, if you update your OS, Apple gives several weeks to over a months for you to revert if there’s a problem.