crosslad

rogifan_new said:

foggyhill said:

rogifan_new said:

canukstorm said:

seanismorris said:

CheeseFreeze said:

Super dull upgrade but exciting for who they are targeting.

The memory is a bit hobbled.  Apple might have issues pushing out iOS updates for the next 4 years, without killing the performance.

It is a good market share move...

At $329, It'll make it more viable for people to upgrade after 2 years By that time there will be a better iPad.

People shouldn’t have to buy a new iPad every 2 years because the RAM isn’t sufficient. I would never buy another iPad that didn’t have at least 4GB RAM.

Nobody's doing, I'm still using an Ipad 2 (we got 6 Ipads of 4 different generations in the house). Stop building straw men. They still sell 4GB laptops and windows is less efficient than IOS on these.

Yeah and my mother is still using an iPad mini 2 running iOS 11 and the experience is awful. Anyway for me the experience on my 12.9” iPad with 4GB RAM is 180 different than the Air it replaced. I would never go back to anything else. Especially not when using split view.

My iPad mini 2 runs fine. However  the Samsung Galaxy tablet that I bought is unusable. 

rogifan_new said:

crosslad said:

rogifan_new said:

dewme said:

Great bang for the buck and quite possibly the last coffin nail for the vast majority of Android tablets.

Why would Apple be targeting Android tablets? What’s popular in education is Chromebooks. Not sure how this event really made a dent there.

Chromebooks are great for keyboard entry. Other than that iPads are better for drawing on and creating video and photographic projects. The iPad can do everything a Chromebooks can do and more. Time to retire my iPad 2 which is still going strong even though it feels slow by today’s standards. It still gets used every day by my now grown up daughter, who has been using it since her school days. I will be picking up an Apple Pencil too.  This will make an excellent work device as well as an educational device. 

I agree with MG Siegler’s take. And he’s not anti-Apple.

https://500ish.com/apple-cedes-735192326da4

and a few others:

Stephen Hackett (@ismh)

3/27/18, 10:32 AM New cheap iPad: $329 for consumers, $299 for schools, no bundled Pencil, no Smart Connector. I don’t see this making a big difference in the marketplace when it comes to Apple’s war with Chromebooks. Fraser Speirs (@fraserspeirs) 3/27/18, 10:46 AM Nothing so far is anywhere close to a game changer. Fraser Speirs (@fraserspeirs) 3/27/18, 2:30 PM @happy_roman @easedrop @bradleychambers If you don't trust Google, you should be even more mad at Apple for letting Google dominate schools so much. Have you looked at the K-12 contracts for GSuite for education. M.G. Siegler (@mgsiegler) 3/27/18, 2:11 PM Still need the hot takes to cool down a bit before I dive in, but my initial reaction to Apple’s education event is pretty meh. It feels like this is the second time in a row (HomePod being the first) that Apple doesn’t quite know the battleground on which they’re fighting.

Show me how to do this on a Chromebooks:
https://youtu.be/IprmiOa2zH8

GeorgeBMac said:

canukstorm said:

1. 

https://twitter.com/WhatTheBit/status/978651060494532608

2.

https://twitter.com/BenBajarin/status/978651936927883265

Thanks...

When I was in college we didn't have computers...  I did take a programming class -- and we hand wrote the programs on the blackboard so the teacher could copy the answers for the next semester's class (so they wouldn't realize how clueless he was).

But, I cannot imagine doing college level work on an existing iPad.   Nor can I imagine doing professional type work on an iPad (too many spreadsheets!).

... Eventually Apple will have to give up and add a cursor...

... Or, produce an iOS laptop.

........... But then those are pretty much the same things...

I work for a local authority. A few months back I attended a meeting with the authority’s solicitor. On the train home she used her iPad 2, not iPad Air 2, the the first iPad 2, remotely logged in to her work pc, downloaded a couple of draft documents, completed them and emailed them to the court. These new iPads with pencil support will be great for work. YouTube is full of Galaxy Note videos where users brag about how they can use their SPens to get real work done, and yet people still say you can’t use an iPad for real work!

rogifan_new said:

dewme said:

Great bang for the buck and quite possibly the last coffin nail for the vast majority of Android tablets.

Why would Apple be targeting Android tablets? What’s popular in education is Chromebooks. Not sure how this event really made a dent there.

Chromebooks are great for keyboard entry. Other than that iPads are better for drawing on and creating video and photographic projects. The iPad can do everything a Chromebooks can do and more. Time to retire my iPad 2 which is still going strong even though it feels slow by today’s standards. It still gets used every day by my now grown up daughter, who has been using it since her school days. I will be picking up an Apple Pencil too.  This will make an excellent work device as well as an educational device. 

But surely Samsung will need all the OLED screens it can make to put into its S9 series phones that are clearly going to outsell iPhones? /s