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Re:Apple tells suppliers to produce 10% fewer new iPhones by baddox on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @02:39AM (#18863009)
Why does everyone write this stuff with such absolutism? There’s no purpose to these devices? I have 2 iPad Pros, one I use every day to consume content like twitter, hacker news, and YouTube. The other I use approximately weekly to play and record music (connected to a digital piano).

Are there even reports that iPad pros aren’t selling well? I think they are the best computers ever made.

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Re:Apple tells suppliers to produce 10% fewer new iPhones by tolmasky on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @03:33AM (#18863237)
Yes. Sales plateaued a while ago (and I think even decreased?). Here’s some data: https://www.statista.com/statistics/269915/global-apple-ipad...

Seoarately, I think many people cannot afford a device that starts at $800 just for Twitter, YouTube, and Hacker News.

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Re:Apple tells suppliers to produce 10% fewer new iPhones by Keres on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @04:30AM (#18863489)
Especially when their current device runs Twitter,YouTube and Hacker News just fine.
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Re:Apple tells suppliers to produce 10% fewer new iPhones by graeme on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @08:41AM (#18864568)
Those are ipad sales, not ipad pro sales. Within the ipad market we don't really know how the ipad pros are doing.

The sales peak you refer to predates the ipad pro.

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Re:Apple tells suppliers to produce 10% fewer new iPhones by Damogran6 on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @10:46AM (#18865569)
The current 'pleb' ipad is $329 and does an awesome job being a twitter appliance. I'm only slightly annoyed as it was half the price I paid for my iPad Air 2 2-3 years ago.
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Re:Apple tells suppliers to produce 10% fewer new iPhones by baddox on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @03:37PM (#18868587)
That an iPad Pro is too expensive for most people is a perfectly reasonable argument, much stronger than "the iPad Pro has no purpose."
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Re:Apple tells suppliers to produce 10% fewer new iPhones by stochastic_monk on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @05:56AM (#18863823)
Daniel Lemire had a bet with a colleague about the usefulness of an iPad, leading him to use it as his primary work device for a year and post about it after [0]. He found it much more effective than I’d have expected. While I have no interest in using one, I’ve become less judgemental about it as a platform.

[0] https://lemire.me/blog/2017/10/03/my-ipad-pro-experiment/

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Re:Apple tells suppliers to produce 10% fewer new iPhones by TheOtherHobbes on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @04:39AM (#18863538)
Vision. It's the difference between inventing a new future and iterating on the past.
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