Mr_Grey

crowley said:

sog35 said:

Without Pencil support I won't be buying this.

Friken Apple better give us pencil support for iPad Air3. If not it would be another demostration of how ass backwards Tim Cook is running the company.

How quickly you become entitled to things that you didn't even know existed 5 months ago.

In all fairness, people have been adamantly interested in styluses for iPad since the very first day it was released.  We've also waited five long years for Apple to implement a proper, native solution.  

It would indeed be a tragedy (and also give Apple some bad press no doubt) if pencil support isn't immediately added to at least the iPads if not all iOS devices.  They shouldn't have dangled the iPad Pro in front of us if they weren't prepared to face the army of people who will now want pencil support for their chosen device.  Tim Cook could actually be described as kind of incompetent if they truly didn't see this coming.  

I feel confident that the iPad Pro was actually something closer to a technology demo than a real product and that now that it's out of the way, the technology should soon appear in the iPad and iPad mini.  I'm so glad that so many others seem to be of the same mind.  

sog35 said:

Mr_Grey said:

I have to say this is just a crazy argument.  There is arguably a greater difference between the iPhone 6s and the iPhone 6 than many of the previous models.  Anyone who has examined both devices or even seen them side by side can tell you this.  They even feel different in the hand.  

The 6 and 6s look exactly the same. The only difference is the 6s is thicker and heavier. How is that better?

Most buyers don't give a crap about CPU, Live Photo's, 3d touch, ect. All they want is the latest iPhone style. So if two iPhones look identical they will most likely buy the cheaper one.

Well, you couldn't be more wrong here.  People actually buy the phones based primarily on Apple's marketing points whether you think so or not.  Also, generally speaking, when the new models come out the old ones are discontinued, so it's rare for people buying a phone to even have a choice.  

For the record, (to address your "thicker and heavier" insult above), the iPhone 6s feels better in the hand.  It isn't slippery like the iPhone 6 is and has a much more solid, substantial feel.  This is because of the higher quality aluminium and the finish they put on it, both of which are undetectable to (your) eye, but still very compelling to the buyer.  

... Apple is said to be particularly interested in BMW thanks to the company's willingness to move beyond traditional approaches to carmaking (sic) with the i3.

I've read multiple accounts that imply that the real reason they want to "work with BMW," is because what they've come up with in their lab is so similar to the i3, that they fear lawsuits if they move forward independently.  

Also, "carmaking" is not a real word. 

Herbivore2 said:

An iPad Air 3 with an A9X CPU will be a very compelling machine. 

No.  Any new iPads that don't have pencil support will be poor sellers at best.  

The best outlook for iPad sales would be if they managed to get ForceTouch and pencil support not only in the iPad Air 3, but in the iPad mini 4.  It looks like they will be neglecting the iPad mini again by this report, but if the iPad Air 3 doesn't have it, all we will be hearing is reviews on why it didn't, or why anyone would buy the new iPad since it's only slightly different from the current one.  

Apple really needs to move forward here and they will look stupid if they don't.  An iPad Air 3 that's microscopically smaller, thinner or with slightly better cameras or slightly better speed isn't going to cut it.  Remember that the iPad Air 2 is hardly any different from the iPad Air 1 already.  More of the same is not an option here.   

jameskatt2 said:

All Apple has to do is to buy all of BMW for about $65 BILLION and turn it into a subsidiary of Apple.
Then Apple can have all of BMW's expertise and manufacturing capability.
Then Apple can modify BMW's cars to its heart's content.

No.  If the Apple car looks like any of these it will be a fail.  This picture is a good example of what's WRONG with the car industry, not what's right.  

Your statement is the equivalent of having a conversation with Henry Ford in 1905 about his new invention and telling him that all he has to do is purchase the leading horse buggy company and "call it done."  

Electric cars have a long history of innovation.  If they make one that looks like these, then they would instead be doing what Elon Musk (and Neil Young) has already done.  

And that's not innovation at all.  That's just putting a big f*cking battery in an otherwise "regular" car.