New iPad Pros with M1-like chipset and Thunderbolt reportedly coming in April

17 March 2021
In the past there were also rumors about an iPad Mini refresh.

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[deleted post]Apple gave us the first smartphone so u better be grateful

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    • 19 Mar 2021

    Apple M1 or any other apple chip cannot support thunderbolt
    Thunderbolt is patented technology of intel

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      • Anonymous
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      • 19 Mar 2021

      -Trix-, 19 Mar 2021” People don't buy iPhones, since better phones that d... moreIDC smartphone shipment in 2020:

      Android = above 1.1 billion.
      IOS = Around 200 million.

      If few million guys are loyal to a brand, who cares...? They still can't capture the market.
      Apple lost the PC war back in the day, now they lose Smartphone war.

        [deleted post]” People don't buy iPhones, since better phones that do the job are available for half the price.”

        Survey: Apple brand loyalty at an all-time high of 92% as Android brands plummet

          [deleted post]” iOS is for people who get swayed away by marketing and who have no choice.
          Apple also attracts buyers for its logo, most of them buy it for the logo.
          If you pack sh*t inside an Apple smartphone box, these guys will eat it calling it yummy, just because it is from Apple”

          You guys keep saying this ridiculous thing and yet HomePod wasn’t big success. Or the Apple TV box. Or the Mac compared to iOS ecosystem devices. Or what about iPhone 12 mini? Apple iOS devices sell because they are great and offer really simple and enjoyable user experience for majority. Logo of course helps selling products. That’s called brand recognition. Every company needs that to sell anything and how you get it? By making great products year after year which people like to use. Look LG, Sony or HTC smartphone sales, they all have lost the brand name to sell their phones, why? Because their products weren’t worth of price. How you think Apple could sell bad products year after year and having by far most loyal users? Wake up man and stop the nonsense :D

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            • Anonymous
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            • 19 Mar 2021

            Anonymous, 18 Mar 2021iOS can only dream about being as advanced and polished lik... moreIOS is lower-tier software compared to miui.
            IOS starts sweating the minute you push it. A complete pri$on that most sensible people avoid like plague.

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              • Anonymous
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              • 19 Mar 2021

              Anonymous, 19 Mar 2021Future proofnes is the same really, but it's a fact th... moreWhat major upgrades?
              Oh yeah the major upgrade for iOS in 2020 was widgets and app drawer.
              Things that existed on Android decade back.
              You are getting a illusion of major upgrades. In reality it is copied stuff from Android n late to their userbase.
              Keep your ancient iOS without proper file management to yourself.
              IOS will match up to miui from year 2020 in the year 2035. That's how outdated it is.
              Even Android 2.3 will embarrass latest iOS.

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                • Anonymous
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                • 19 Mar 2021

                Why "Apple users" are more loyal?
                1. The 'familiarity' of the UI; believe it or not, nowadays many people are too lazy to 'learn' new things, including 'how to use different Android UIs'.
                2. The 'trap' called convenience when u have ALL Apple-made products; nowadays many people are too lazy to 'learn' new things, including 'how to connect / pair Android to PC, TWS, Wearable gadgets, etc'. Apple made ALL their device connected 'seamlessly' & 'effortless' to make people lazy, therefore won't think twice to buy overpriced Apple products.
                3. The 'delusion' called 'security' which has been Apple's Marketing for years. IF u r not lazy enough, u could open Utube to watch how Snowden reveal that iOS is more vulnerable than AndroidOS, additionally it has backdoors 'pre-installed' in ALL new iphones & older ones that still get updates (He mentioned 6s which is old enough, but still get updates, as an example).
                4. The 'delusion' called 'superiority' over Android;
                many iTrolls says "Apple 'perfected' Android feature", "Apple implements 'ripened' tech"
                which shows that many iTrolls have 'superiority complex', while in real world, EVERY tech-savvy worth their salt knows how 'limited' & 'restricted' iOS were designed since 2007.
                5. The 'delusion' called 'high resale price'.
                If u understand economics, nothing but Gold & jewelries have 'high resale value'.
                So, how could Apple create this 'high resale value' phenomenon? Build people mindset, by marketing, that "apple = jewelrer' by making it 'exclusive' (no other OEM use iOS), have long support (5 years update with incremental update annually), have high price tag (naturally, people associate high pricing to hi-quality), offer replacement (with certain condition applied), and tons more.

                Why I know this? because we talk about this in my class; my professor NEVER buy ANY Apple-related products mostly because of the facts above; 'u'll become 'stupid' if u let A COMPANY control ur money & needs; oftentimes u don't need the product but u buy it anyway, because ur 'mindset' are already under their control' (homepod, airpods, magsafe, watch, 999$ mac stand 'pro', etc)

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                  • Anonymous
                  • Scp
                  • 19 Mar 2021

                  Imagine an ipad pro with all of it's hardware features(promotion, pencil support...) in tact and a headphone jack, but it ran mac os with the added benefit of having access to the whole iphone and ipad app stores, that would be a killer product, mac os and it's hardware are closer than ever to the internals of the ipad, so hopefully we get it in the near future

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                    • Anonymous
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                    • 19 Mar 2021

                    Ed, 18 Mar 2021Well that sucks, why do they feel to have the need to updat... moreThunderbolt integrates all features of USB C including the connector, the difference being that it has a higher maximum speed(40gbps although that will also be aplicable to USB 4 40gbps, they have seriously started to make a mess of the naming on USB since 3.1 gen stuff) and it could be used for external PCI-E peripherals including GPUs(not on the ipad tho, or M1 macs)

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                      • Anonymous
                      • Scp
                      • 19 Mar 2021

                      YUKI93, 18 Mar 2021Thunderbolt in an iPad Pro? Can't really see the whole... moreIt's probably going to be used for higher data transfers if you have a external thunderbolt ssd

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                        • Anonymous
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                        • 19 Mar 2021

                        Norwegian Gangster , 18 Mar 2021Plenty of people gave up on iOS last year after they choose... moreFuture proofnes is the same really, but it's a fact that the iphone is gonna keep getting major OS upgrades for longer, giving it more future proofnes as most features that will be added in any OS will be software, hardware will keep getting better but it's just increments, when sth groundbreaking on the hardware front comes then all past phones will be junk...

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                          • Anonymous
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                          • 19 Mar 2021

                          Anonymous, 18 Mar 2021Most people want nothing to do with LieOS. Who wants latest... moreMost of those phones are sold just cause they cheap, which apple doesn't do, not like there's any other smartphone platform that caters to the cheap market

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                            • Anonymous
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                            • 19 Mar 2021

                            Android-Authority, 18 Mar 2021And because of plenty of Android users switching to iOS, An... moreLet's be honest both platforms are perfectly fine, but it is a fact that many people bought Android phones just cause they were much cheaper as not everyone is willing to spend 700$+ on any phone most people probably wouldn't care if they had ios or android as long as the apps they wanna use are on the platform, every platform is not for everyone but most average consumers would be fine with any

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                              • Anonymous
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                              • 19 Mar 2021

                              Anonymous, 18 Mar 2021Exactly. We are still at the doors of ARM's future pot... moreGenshin Impact?
                              LOL, what r u smoking? bath Salt?

                              Genshin Impact & 99% of PlayStore games relies heavily on GPU, not CPU.
                              Not only that, since Cortex A72, every newer iteration produce higher & higher heat, making OEM resorted to 'liquid cooling', since cooper & thermal paste can't do shit anymore (remember SD810? If OEM re-use that SoC with current cooling tech, it could overtook SD821)

                              and, everyone knows that ARM's Mali is a joke compared to Adreno & NVidia, even at high core config.
                              Only 1% games relies on CPU, but not Genshin Impact, else, old but still powerful MediaTek MT6595 or Intel Z3580 in Zenfone 2 could run it.

                                Android-Authority, 18 Mar 2021And because of plenty of Android users switching to iOS, An... more”Meanwhile, Samsung loyalty has dropped 11.7% from 85.7% in 2019 to 74% in 2021
                                • Apple users are nearly 18% more loyal to their brand than Samsung users
                                • 26% of Samsung users will jump ship to another brand next time they upgrade
                                • Of the Samsung defectors, a majority (53%) will switch to an iPhone the next time they upgrade, with most (31.5%) indicating privacy concerns as the main reason for the switch

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                                  • Anonymous
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                                  • 18 Mar 2021

                                  Norwegian Gangster , 18 Mar 2021Plenty of people gave up on iOS last year after they choose... moreiOS can only dream about being as advanced and polished like Miui.

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                                    • Anonymous
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                                    • 18 Mar 2021

                                    Android-Authority, 18 Mar 2021And because of plenty of Android users switching to iOS, An... moreMost people want nothing to do with LieOS. Who wants latest features 10 years late???
                                    This is why 1.1B-1.2B people blindly put their money and faith in Android.

                                      -Trix-, 18 Mar 2021” Plenty of people gave up on iOS last year after they choo... moreAnd because of plenty of Android users switching to iOS, Android hit a record high of 1.2 billion new customers last year. Apple barely sold 200 million.
                                      Android has established its authority over iOS long back.

                                        -Trix-, 18 Mar 2021” Plenty of people gave up on iOS last year after they choo... moreWho did the survey? CNET??? Links or didn't happen.

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