Apple announced a new iPad Air and iPad Mini Retina. But prior to the announcement there were many rumours of the features one might expect from these new iPads. So what didn’t make the cut?
The obvious omission was TouchID as featured on the iPhone 5S. To be honest a fingerprint scanner on the home button may not have been as natural to use as it is on a phone. But nonetheless it was missing.
Colours. Unlike the iPhone 5C which is available in many colours there were no new finishes. In fact what happened to a gold iPad. I wonder how people who bought a gold iPhone feel now, hoping they would get a gold iPad too? Have you been affected by this?
I do have a gold 5S and therefore won’t be able to have a matching finish of the new iPads.
Cameras. The new iPhones have 8mp cameras. The new iPads only have 5mp.
These are the most obvious omissions. Do you feel anything else should have been included?
I do think with all the software Apple is providing with iOS 7 and new devices the combined hardware and software experience will be unrivalled.
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Experience versus flexibility versus price. Apple only address one of three of these.
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Working for a corporate who enforce a PIN via the security policies for access to mail, calendar etc TouchID would have been very much appreciated.
Two missing tech standards which I use every day on my mobile devices : ultrafast 802.11ac Wi-Fi & Apt-X both found on Mac products but mysteriously missing from the mobile line up. The lack of AC is particularly curious given it’s the very first sales point mentioned on Apple’s Airport Express product page.
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