The new iPad knocks the wind out of the iPad Air — who will buy it now?

[iMore.com]

The newly announced iPad (2022) takes most of what I love about the iPad Air and makes it cheaper. Full story from the iMore Blog...

 

[Up_And_Away]

>>>”If Apple wants to keep the iPad Air around, the next iteration has got to offer a lot more.

It's hard to imagine what that would be, considering it's already so close to the iPad Pro, but the $449 price point of the 10th-gen has taken the wind out of my love for the iPad Air.”<<<

Not even a mention for the iPad mini in the article. We of the Mini that are shunned .

What they can do with the Air 6, maybe a 90hz display? Speaker upgrade? MagSafe? Higher base storage? Anytime you can say this has a better display and better speakers, that’ll get some buyers. But overall the base IPad is the best option for most (except for us Mini outcasts).

 

[FFR]

Only if you do not care about laminated displays.

 

[Up_And_Away]

Only if you do not care about laminated displays.

And SOC. There is a lot of “it doesn’t matter, it’s plenty fast enough for everything I do”. It’s true the A14 will provide plenty of power but that’s a bit of tunnel vision as well as short sighted. There are features that will be processor intensive and the M1 will outshine the A14 fairly handily. As well, a few years down the line many apps and features, usually, build upward to newer devices’ increased processing power. The Air’s M1 provides this value.

But the Air 6 adding a DPI increase and 90hz refresh rate would provide plenty of differentiation incentive(to go with the lamination). Adding in quad speakers is probably a bridge too far.