dreyfus2

Guess that's why I prefer Bowers & Wilkins headphones over Apple's Beat. They elegantly solved the plural issue single-handedly 

gatorguy said:

Ummm.... 
Aren't watchbands typically swappable? I know I've changed mine several times on several watches over the years. Hardly "taking a page from Apple" IMHO.

Most watch bands can be swapped, and most link bands can be extended or shortened. Apple did not invent either (and did not claim that). What they did is making both those activities tool-free. Traditional watches required tools (e.g. my Officine Panerai came with a rubber diving band and a leather band, and a whole set of tools in the box to actually swap those), or even a trip to a watchmaker. And that makes a huge difference – I actually do swap bands on the Apple Watch, I almost never did that with other watches.

Steve Jobs, as a pescatarian, would have never approved "an orange made from Italian calf leather". Apple meet doom. /scnr Looks amazing. Wish they would make just any nice color cover for the 12.9 Pro in leather at all.

I bought the (128GB with LTE) 12.9"model on day one and I am more than happy with it. Would have bought the 256 GB model if it were available then... Well next time. I got myself a small iPad Mini 4 just for iBooks, some gaming and listening to music on the go. Perfect combination for me. I do understand the appeal of the 9.7" model (have been using them for years), but now they are just the wrong size for me (too big for reading in the train, too small for work). But this is a very personal choice. Not quite sure why Apple can't ship it's flagship device with an appropriate charger though...? The only thing I would really want from the 9.7" model is the reduced reflections. They are not bad on the 12.9", but they are there in some conditions – and a larger device does catch more light. The larger gamut is not really a must for photography (unless you receive pictures using more than sRGB all the time) – the 12.9 handles sRGB just fine, and the larger gamut in the 9.7" model does not correspond to any standard color space used in photography. And there is (for now) no mean to calibrate an iPad, so this is really not that relevant. You can't use an iPad for pre-press work, no matter which model. TrueTone is great for watching stuff, it is not really helping with predictable editing. Something Apple needs to address is software discoverability for the 12.9" model. There is currently no mean at all to see if an app does have a native (unscaled) GUI for it. And now even the hint "compatible with iPad Pro" does not answer that question any longer.

schlack said:

time for apple to pack up their car team and work on something else. the profitable side of this market is locked down for the foreseeable future.

Well, that's what has been said about MP3-players, computers and phones. So far none of the established players has convincing mass-market electric cars, fully autonomous cars are decades away, and absolutely nobody is making a dime on any of them (so, what do you mean by "the profitable side of this market"?). No idea if Apple will come up with something good, or anything at all. But if they do, it likely won't initially be in the entry-level price range.