“Last November Apple went big with a 12.9-inch iPad Pro,” Dan Gallagher reports for The Wall Street Journal.
“That didn’t excite customers and the company suffered the worst period on record for its iPad business,” Gallagher reports. “So Apple downsized, launching a 9.7-inch version iPad Pro in March.”
Gallagher reports, “That helped the company sell 1 million more iPad units than analysts had projected for its recent quarter.”
Read more, and see the graph, in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Time for iPad to make some noise again!
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I bought my wife the 9.7″ Pro the first chance I could. It is the right size for most people to do work in. My biggest ding on the product is very limited handwriting recognition (or at least my wife cannot seem to figure out how to get that going).
Handwriting recognition isn’t an iOS feature–yet. Some apps can do it, though. That explains why it doesn’t work all of the time.
There is a free keyboard for iOS that allows handwriting to text. Its free and works well. Sorry I forget the name.
I want an iPad mini. Unless Apple releases an iPad mini “Pro” with the next round of refreshes (seems unlikely), the one I want is the current iPad mini 4 at 64GB (WiFi only). I think we’ll see bargain prices for it (as a refurb or on sale) during the next 3-4 months. It’s so thin and light, with the same number of pixels as the 9.7-inch iPad Pro (I don’t mind if things appear about 20% smaller). With an A8, it will be supported for MANY years, and provide more enough power for what I’ll do with a tablet computer.
He makes it sound as if Apple reacted to a lack of interest in the 12″ ipad pro by releasing a 9.7″ ipad pro, which is of course ridiculous.
not criticizing the small pro but I love my big 12.9.
I have a couple of cintiqs, latest is 27 inches so I guess I’m qualified to praise the iPad Pro.
Wonderful device, sometimes I have to force myself to stop drawing on it.
As I have the Cintiqs connected to Mac Pros I don’t use the iPad too much yet for ‘finished work’ but I have to mention if Apple is serious about the iPad for work for CERTAIN users who deal with complex projects it needs to make a ‘Pro’ version of the OS with a proper file system, easier protocols to transfer files, opening media etc.
Still enjoying my original iPad WiFi plus Cellular I purchased in June 2010. It is getting long in the tooth because of websites that have more intricacy causing Safari to crash. Soon time to update, but will wait to see what Apple releases.
Funny you should mention it, I have exactly the same gen 1 iPad and hoped that the iPad Pro would be the replacement. however, intial trials in the store were not impressive (crashing and freezing) at release date and the price was way too much for the additional functionality ( pen costs as well – if you want to make the most of it) so, I’m waiting for the prices to get real or someone to bring some competition to the market fora high end iPad.
If they want to excite people they need to get their RAM pricing sorted out and stop gouging their fan base with huge margins on the iPads that have acceptable amounts of memory.