🍎 Apple iPad-Pro the 12.9″ iPad is VERY Ready for Prime Time to Challenge 13″ 14″ and 15″ PCs, LapTops and the Education Market. A Touch-Screen Retina-Display at 12.9″ housed with an iPad configuration will be an outstanding Alternative to the PC, and the MAC BOOK; The iPad Pro will represent an Alternative to Laptops and serve as a PC Replacement.
🍎 Apple iPad-Pro is reported to be designed as a 12.9″ iPad “Retina” high resolution display, (recall currently the traditional iPad Air 2 has a 9.7″ retina-display, and iPad-mini-3 retina display has a 7.9″ display) iOS system. Apple iPad-Pro, the larger sized 12.9″ iPad is directly targeting 13″ and 14″ PC LapTops, Desk PCs, and Education.
🍎 Apple iPad-Pro, with its larger 12.9″ display is perfect for Academic Text Books used in Schools and Universities, and ideal for Business purposes. Apparently, the iPad Pro is a legitimate product rumor as many in Cyber-Space are touting this New Apple Product, lets call it iPad Pro, no confirmation from Apple of course. Apple has not {and will not} confirm any larger iPads; However, we’ve seen images captured showing the existence of a larger iPad aluminum-shell and display.
🍎 Admittedly, as part of the rumor-chain, yours truly wrote about this topic two years ago. My writing then was not a product rumor, as the article was written about an Apple “product” on my WISH LIST for my personal work-flow. Folks that follow me are aware that over 95% of everything I do, is done on my iPad Air 2. However, if Apple delivers a super-charged 12.9″ iPad with a retina display, I’ll be in great shape to do my Stores published on my FAU4U2.WordPress.com site with its 80,000 readership, combined with my image editing published on our 416.1100.com image repository site, with over 26 million visitors
🍎 iPad Pro Specifications. How Apple actually configures the iPad Pro is unknown; however, lets compile some key specifications. To be sure second-guessing Apple is a fool’s game, but Apple has perfected the art of seeding sufficient information to get folks talking about it, in anticipation of a new product. The iPad Pro appears to be the next big-thing off the production line.
🍎 Clearly, a larger iPad would be intended to be more of a Productivity Machine than just a Content Consumption device, as the iPad Air 2 and the iPad mini 3 do wonderfully. Not to say that the present day iPads are not productivity devices. The iPad Pro may be the answer to the challenge of Windows mobile devices that offer productivity and portability. Apple has its comprehensive Eco-Sphere that magically keeps a Loyal installed base of iOS users, a Billion of them all totaled together.
🍎 Lets Talk Cannibalization. Apple is keenly aware of competitive pressures and internal product line cannibalization. In the most recent 6 months, Apple’s iPad mini has lost “market share” to itself, in that the iPhone 6 Plus with a 5.5″ display may have takes potential iPad mini sales with its 7.9″ display. iPad mini sales may have also taken some sales from the standard sized iPad Air 2 with its 9.7″ display.
🍎 Taking Internal Cannibalization a bit further, Apple’s new Mac Book computers with its ultra-thin portable design, may experience some pressure when and if Apple releases the iPad Pro, with its 12.9″ touch-screen retina display. The “balance of iPhone 6 Plus and iPad mini users will eventually Stabilize” due to the display sizes and portability desires. Likewise, the unit sales balance, between the iPad Air 2, iPad Pro, and Macbook buyers, will stabilize to suit the growing demand for portable Communications, Content Consumption, Productivity solutions, and Portability.
🍎 In Tim Cook’s own words “…its better better to cannibalize to yourself that to be cannibalized by your Competition…” The iPad Pro with a more robust menu of Specifications, coupled with a high resolution touch-screen retina display may very well give the iPad line-up the Boost it needs to remain a relevant and growing device.
🍎 The iPad Pro could be a “Game Changer” for the iPad line-up, linking up the MacBook lines. However, in common with the biggest iPhone yet, the iPhone 6 Plus, the iPad Pro may take the name iPad Plus rather than iPad Pro. This news comes from Weibo, via GizmoChina, which also leaked some new spec details and images.
🍎 iPad Pro Specifications. The iPad Pro will likely contain the best technology Apple can offer. Expect 32GB, 64GB, 128GB, perhaps 256GB storage capabilities, quad-core processor and 2GB of onboard RAM. Typically Apple delivers the Capabilities in a new iPad parallel to the components of Apple’s recent iPhone release. As the iPhone 6 uses its A8 Chip, the iPad Pro may incorporate an A8X chip containing extra power for added productivity and speed, perhaps 2GH for image and video editing, a 2K Quad-HD Retina Display, featuring an 11,000mAh battery to power the larger display, processing speed, RAM and Storage.
🍎 APPLE Please take Note: The one thing that I miss from OSX world, in the iOS7 environment, there is the absence of a real-file system, where one can find, locate, search, and retrieve particular FILE or Image. Presently I have to recall which APP I used to create or edit a file, then I have to return to that particular APP {for example scanning, or PDF file creation} to find the File or Image
🍎 Apple delivering larger 12.9″ display is a perfect size to compete with 13″ and 14″ laptops and many desktop computers, yet maintain the minimalistic footprint, plus if one couples their iPad to a LOGITECH UltraThin bluetooth Keyboard. The result, an ultra-thin touch-screen “Laptop” whose battery lasts 12-14 hours.
🍎 Think about it, a large display iPad with an amazingly fast full featured iOS8, relatively inexpensive touch-screen design, coupled with a voluminous inventory of some 800,000 Application Software Apps, all optimized for Apple’s dynamic Tough-Screen display. Apple’s history has been to deliver Laptops in various sizes to meet the “Portability” requirements of their users, like 11″, 13″, 15″ and 17″ MacBooks. So it makes common sense that iPads could come in three flavors: 7.9″, 9.7″ and 12.9″ iPads. Perhaps in WWDC 2015 conference Apple may Announce the iPad Pro, to spread new product releases over various calendar Quarter, rather than stacking all the products Announcements and Releases in September and October.
🍎 More Industry sources close to the production line and familiar with Apple’s product roadmap say that a 12.9″ display is in the works for a product that may be called the iPad Pro. Apple is reportedly already talking to potential supply-line manufacturers to create this humungous display which is set to be released perhaps June-July, 2015.
🍎 Apple is reportedly is planning to launch a much larger iPad with a higher resolution screen this year, 2015. Sources familiar with the matter told Chinese website “Pad News” that Apple and its Chinese partner Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd are testing 5 different prototypes of 12.9″ iPads. These larger sized iPads may feature 2K and 4K resolutions.
🍎 New iPads may sport double the resolution of iPad Air. Reliable sources say Apple may launch the larger-screen iPad Pro by June-July, 2015. An iPad Pro may launch with a 4K resolution 12.9″ display to hit the market in June-July, 2015 when the Cupertino-based company updates its product cycle. The current iPad Air 2 with 9.7″ display has 2,048-by-1,536 pixel, or 264 dpi resolution. This display resolution already falls in the 2K category. By definition the Long-Side horizontal resolution of 2000 pixels is referred to 2K, for 2 thousand.
🍎 Chinese Sources said that an iPad may be built with a 4K resolution would likely have a resolution of 4096 x 3072, exactly double the horizontal resolution of iPad Air which is 2,048 pixels. In order to maintain the same “aspect-ratio” of the iPad Air, then the Vertical dimension would also have to be doubled to 3072 pixels. If this occurred, then the new iPad Pro would have 400% more pixels spread within the 12.9″ display. The new iPad Pro is also rumored to sport 397dpi pixel density, compared to the iPad Air’s 264dpi.
🍎 Apple will likely actively target 13” PC ultrabooks and notebooks, with the iPad Pro, or whatever Apple chooses to name it, by providing the device with better portability, better battery life, and comparable screen real estate for productivity applications.
🍎 Another target for the 12.9” iPad, is the educational market, enabling a beautifully display of digital-textbooks. This bigger display is better suited to replace traditional textbooks, just from a size stand point, and Apple with its supply-line partners, are also developing a new display technologies with less weight and less glare, more suited for use in classrooms.
🍎 Many are now speaking of a 12.9″ iPad, without an Apple ClamShell. Being full of suggestions, so whats next in the pipeline… Lets create a iPad-Pro which would have the appearance similar to the new MAC Book, but that is where the similarly ends.
🍎 This new iPad Pro, is a portable or desktop computing “game changer” as it employs the Apple iOS amazingly efficient operating system; that’s right… NOT an OSX laptop, but an iOS9 operating system platform, housed in a “super-charged” iPad-Pro with a huge, brilliant, high resolution 12.9″.
🍎 Using an exterior similar to the MacBook Air’s foot-print, the iPad Pro would be “supercharged iPad” with:
🍎 Touch-Screen Retina-Display, designed to challenge the Post PC traditional 13″ to 15″ LapTop computers
🍎 Apple will leave the ClamShell feature to the After-Marketeers like LOGITECH, CLAMCASE and others.
🍎 The iPas Pro may be thought of as a Cross-Over device, bridging the gap between the traditional Laptop, just as the Apple’s iPad redefined the Tablet in April, 2010.
🍎 In my humble opinion, Apple gets the message that Computing these days is more to do with Communications than Calculations, knowing the present day PC laptop sales are eroding with the iPad. Folks love the iPad’s Communications, Visuals, Web Browsing, Pictures & Video Viewing capabilities, combined with a very compact, light weight, all day battery design.
🍎 As the transition from the PC to the iPad becomes more profound, and if the iPad Pro is a super-charged robust iPad, as many more Windows PC’ers would migrate to Apple; Conversly, If you want a more compact device the iPad Air footprint is perfect, as I presently have with Belkin’s Ultimate Keyboard Case, discussed in another Article. If you want more horsepower, then the iPad-Pro described below would satisfy this need; want even more power then the MAC Book Air is it… Want even more Power, then the MAC Book Pro answers this need…
🍎 Apple’s MAC laptops are designed with 4 Display sizes: 11″, 13″, 15″, 17″. It is surely reasonable to have the iPad in 3 Display sizes, to serve eveyone’s needs. Apple in April, 2010 Apple released the initial iPad with what Apple believed to be the “Optimal 9.7″ Display; Within 24 months the iPad grew to sales of about 50 million iPads/year.
🍎 November, 2012 Apple met the demand for a more-compact iPad Display, when it released the iPad mini; The iPad-mini’s is having incredible success; The iPad Air and the iPad-mini combined sales are about 65 million iPads/year.
🍎 Apple in 2014 may be considering the opportunity of a One-Size-Up to a 12.9″ Display from the original iPad’s 9.7″ Display. After all once the design of the iPad’s “Internal Electronic Package” is a complete package; however, an evolving package, configuring 3-iPad footprints is a “relatively” easy task: 3-Enclosures, 3-Displays, 3-LiON Batteries, all housing a relatively consistent “Internal Electronic Package.” Leave it to the “After-Market” enterprises to fill in the balance for Covers, Cases, Keyboard Cases…
🍎 Not sure which size iPad or alternative to get for yourself, here is a simple decision-tree to help you along the way.
Lets have a “Super-Charged” iPad…. the iPad-Pro:
🔷 more Hardware Connectivity, Lightning plus a Standard SD Picture Card slot
🔷 more Memory say 4GB,
🔷 more Storage say 128GB base the storage, 128GB add $100, 256GB add $200. Memory is inexpensive, so give the folks a good chunk of it.
🔷 more Connectivity say LTEx, LTE, 4G and 3G Cellular, optional $130 radio package to the WiFi a/b/g/n/ac bands
🔷 faster Processor say 3GHz, coupled to
🔷 more Real Estate: 12.9″ Touch-Screen Retina Display.
🔷 Larger Footprint with an Optonal 360° Hinged ClamShell provided by the After Market, where the iPad-Pro snaps into the top-shell, similar to the ClamCase design for the iPad-Air.
🔷 Improved Mathematics & Calculating capacity and VIDEO processing engine to the traditional iPad.
🔷 Pricing for the Base model $599 which includes 64GB storage, 2GB RAM, A8 Processor at 3GHz, and priced up to $999 for the fully loaded 128GB, LTE/Cellular version.
🔷 I will be saving my dollars for the $999 iPad Pro for sure.
🔷 My plan, may be selling my iPad mini Retina, with 128GH to Gazelle, to help defray the cost of the iPad Pro. OR I may retain the “MINI” to have the very portable iPad mini retina, and the much larger iPad Pro for those more intense Image Editing, Video jobs, Spreadsheets, or simply a very portable table-top iPad Pro, adding a bluetooth keyboard.
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