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Re:The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 by fulldecent2 on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @11:36AM (#22170971)
The main design theory of Apple is simple: come up with a great usability feature and deploy it on one model. Then spend the next 5 to 10 years spreading this out to their other models. When people stop buying, just swap in a higher specced component from Intel and talk about how it is 2x faster.
Re:The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 by ASalazarMX on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @12:49PM (#22171882)
The Apple watch case is infuriating.

Since the new series 5 is a very minor incremental upgrade from the 4, they discontinued the latter, but still sell the 3. This way the comparison table between 3 and 5 make it seem like the 5 was a bigger improvement.

Re:The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 by CarlRJ on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @08:43PM (#22176330)
That's not their reason for discontinuing it though - there's no reason for them to sell the 3, 4, and 5. Probably retooled the 4's assembly line to make 5's.
Re:The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 by ASalazarMX on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @01:58PM (#22184458)
So, you think it's normal for say, car companies, to sell the 2020 and 2018 models, but not the 2019?