iPad sales probably haven't hit saturation point, sure.

Tablet sales are plummeting in general - the iPad is not immune to this.

The first page of this thread is hilarious.

Here's a question though - where's the money actually coming from? The first world hit saturation in 'everyone has a smartphone' a while back, and the third world don't buy iPhones. Market stats don't suggest that everyone is ditching their current phones for an iPhone. So they will be making a massive whack in turnover of old phones for new, but that should have been fairly constant for a few years at least. So what's doing it? iTunes? iPad sales probably haven't hit saturation point, sure. So I can see apple making a solid profit, but these numbers?

I think you'll find I backed it from the get-go.

I'm not sure I see the point of it.

Here's a question though - where's the money actually coming from? The first world hit saturation in 'everyone has a smartphone' a while back,

and the third world don't buy iPhones.

Market stats don't suggest that everyone is ditching their current phones for an iPhone.

Wait, I'm not really paying attention. Are they claiming to have sold 74.5m iphones since January 1st?

Multitasking I genuinely don't miss on the iPhone. Apps do their purposes and it takes a negligible time to load any one. Dropping out of twittie and into another app takes neglibly more time than minimising and maximising a window. Of course that argument goes out the window if the instant starts of the iPhone go missing with the iPad.

What I do miss massively is backgrounding processes. I want tiny tasks that can be set in the background. Things like androids 'locate' and so on.

That said, I would rather a quick mono-task device than a sluggish multitasker.

Oooh, just thought, a central app like OS X's 'Growl' that runs in the background. Apps can send requests for context/location/event circumstance to cause something to happen and growl runs to take care of them. That would be the best of both worlds.

Wait, I'm not really paying attention. Are they claiming to have sold 74.5m iphones since January 1st?

And it's not "claiming" as this came from an SEC financial filing

It's 1Q15 of Apple's financial year, which started in the fourth week of September 2014.

What in the actual fuck?

It'll doubtless be related to some sort of tax dodging douchebaggery. If they didn't pay cut rate taxes in Ireland would they still have broken the records?

What in the actual fuck?

How is it possible that you don't understand how accounting periods work?

How is it possible that you don't understand how accounting periods work?

Ipad pro, the same... But bigger!

The initial reaction to the announcement at the start of the thread is always an amusing read

Your life is worth less than this device.

Does the stylus come with the iPad? I read the stylus will cost $99 but it didn't say whether you'll have to buy it separately, mind you, I was looking for iPhone 6S stuff so I only skim read the article.

I'm pretty sure you need to buy it separately if you want it.

For me the fundamental flaw in the new iPad is that it runs iOS. If you're going to go with that size/cost then a device that doesn't run a proper desktop OS just doesn't stack up well against the Surface. Yes, iOS has versions of a lot of software like Office etc but it doesn't have and do everything so why compromise? iOS, like Android, is still an OS for consumption and if you need to create it just doesn't measure up. I dunno, I'm sure I'm missing a trick here but it just seems to push iOS into a space it's not suitable for which is a weird decision. If there's a desire for capable Apple devices in that form factor then they need to design OSX for touch and slap that on something, but this isn't that.

http://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=373576#p373576

Yeah, I would probably agree with that. But then they'd probably be eating too much into MacBook Air sales so...

True, but why not combine the lines? And a device of sufficient size could contain ipad and MacBook components, judging by the size of the 2015 Macbook's motherboard.

So have you got a Surface Pro then?

-edit- you also said this, so good work on 1-for-2.

viewtopic.php?p=373635#p373635

Yup, a Pro 3 256GB i7. And a iPad 1


I was surprised. 2 for 2!

Yup, a Pro 3 256GB i7. And a iPad 1

Oddly my post missed my comment about Grim... keeping his surface quiet after he mocked my stylus.

Oddly my post missed my comment about Grim... keeping his surface quiet after he mocked my stylus.