In the early morning of October 19, Apple released two new products on its official website, namely iPad 10 and the new iPad Pro.
Among them, the new iPad Pro is equipped with the latest M2 chip, supporting the new Apple Pencil hover experience.
also supports WiFi 6E standard and Bluetooth 5.3 technology.
, and iPad 10 adopts a full-screen design for the first time, equipped with a 10.9-inch retinal display, and uses an A14 chip.
In addition, Apple moved the iPad 10 camera from the top to the side and changed the Lighting interface to a USB-C interface.
Overall, these two new iPads have been upgraded, but there are actually not many changes.
It is worth mentioning the price. The starting price of
iPad 10 has increased by 1,100 yuan compared with the previous generation, the starting price of iPad Pro 11-inch has increased by 600 yuan, and the starting price of 12.9-inch has increased by 800 yuan. The price increase of
is very rare in Apple's history, and it is indeed a bit cruel.
Not only that, the price increase of the two new iPads has also driven the price increase of the old iPads across the board.
Netizens have said that and other parties are losing money now.
In addition to the price, another point that netizens complained about is that the iPad still does not have a calculator application.
As we all know, whether it is iPhone, Mac, or even Apple Watch, it comes with a calculator application, but iPad does not.
In theory, calculator is the most basic application, why does Apple want to "treat differently" so much?
In fact, this is a historical problem.
Before the release of the early iPad in 2010, it actually had a built-in calculator, developed by the team of Scott Forstall, the senior vice president of the software department.
But at that time, the calculator on the iPad just ported the calculator on the phone and only modified the window size.
As we all know, Jobs pursues the ultimate.
A month before the release of iPad, Jobs found that this calculator was very unsightly, so he asked Scott Forstall to design a calculator for iPad again.
Only a few weeks left before the iPad is released, and it is obvious that this task is difficult to complete.
In the end, Jobs simply canceled the built-in calculator directly.
Later, the calculator on iPad has not been able to satisfy Jobs, so it has never been launched on iPad.
In the end, the calculator on the iPad seemed to have become a meme and it was not launched until 2022.
Even though Jobs has passed away for many years, Scott Forstall has long since resigned from Apple.
well-known blogger MKBHD, who once interviewed Craig Federighi (HSVP of Software Engineering, Apple) on this issue.
Craig Federighi said that the reason why we haven't launched a calculator for iPad is because they want to make something unique and amazing.
No new calculator will be introduced unless they think it is already perfect (same as Jobs' position). The statement of
is more or less difficult to understand.
First of all, there is no calculator on the iPad, which results in users being able to download third-party calculator from the App Store.
, let’s not talk about these calculators being useless, some of them are charged, which brings a very poor user experience to users.
This is obviously contrary to Apple's always user experience-centered purpose.
In this way, Apple might as well make a calculator by itself, just need to be more useful than a third party, and then slowly iterate and update.
uses "no perfect calculator for the time being" to make excuses, which seems incredible.
And it was then, now it is now, times are constantly changing, and Jobs's will is not always correct.
Just like Apple Pencil, Jobs once said "Who wants a stylus?" (Who wants a stylus?).
At that time, Jobs believed that the finger was the best interaction tool, and the stylus did not belong to the multi-touch era.
But later, Cook "violated" Jobs' will and launched Apple Pencil.
Nowadays, Apple Pencil is quite successful and has even become a relatively important productivity tool.
It is not so serious to say that Jobs was slapped in the face, but it is just because of the different eras in which he lives.
So since Apple Penci can make changes, why does Apple have to worry about a small calculator?
What do you think about iPad? There is no calculator yet?
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