Metriacanthosaurus

This is a good place to start with this technology, because it will be extremely low power and low range. You don’t need much to keep a keyboard and mouse operating. 

This is way if doesn’t kill anyone in the first few years, we can look at going further with it. 

There has to be a system of checks and balances. The idea that Apple can do whatever it wants with its own platform isn’t good enough. That is just a copout and a way to circumvent fairness, openness, and possibly even the law. 

If you want to have a platform and pretend to make it available to everyone, it has to actually be available to everyone, without various anti competitive practices that prevent any one particular company or group or political ideology from exposure. Let the market handle it, not the whims of a few people in Cupertino. 

genovelle said:

Metriacanthosaurus said:

And it's still $399, now for half the storage as before. Talk about DOA release.
Who is this for exactly? The person who wants the cheapest way to get Apple support? Oh wait no that's the larger and better and cheaper 9.7" iPad at $329.

So its for the person who wants the smallest and least usable Apple Pencil support? What a joke.

Because no one is going to buy this as just an iPad, because its a terrible buy in that regard.

It comes standard with 64 GB up to 256. The old one had 16 GB and topped out at 128. I am confused as to what you are referring too. Expect the 9.7” to be discontinued in the near future. 

If you expect that then you're very confused. The 9.7" iPad is $329 and almost always available at $299 or less in retail. That is a whole other market from iPads starting at $399.

macgui said:

Metriacanthosaurus said:

HAHAHA. I knew it. Of course they did not update the low end iPad with a compelling offering. Nope. Just invented a new price point to gouge people even more.

Bullshit and FUD.

No it isn't. This is pretty obvious to anyone who wants to see it.

Apple used to update their products with compelling new offerings, and value-added proposition. Now they invent new tiers every time they have something new to offer, so that they can charge more.

By all accounts these modest updates should have applied to the iPad. But instead Apple creates another iPad (and reaches into the well for the iPad Air name) so that they can charge $499 instead of $329. That is all that happened here.

And it's still $399, now for half the storage as before. Talk about DOA release.
Who is this for exactly? The person who wants the cheapest way to get Apple support? Oh wait no that's the larger and better and cheaper 9.7" iPad at $329.

So its for the person who wants the smallest and least usable Apple Pencil support? What a joke.

Because no one is going to buy this as just an iPad, because its a terrible buy in that regard.