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Jiam Calvert 27 mins ago · 3 min read
When will the next iPad Pro come out in the UK?
The iPad Pro 2 wasn’t teased or even announced at WWDC 2016, which is what we expected given the previous announcements and release dates of the iPad Pro line. When will the next iPad Pro come out in the UK? Update 1 September: With the Apple event confirmed on 7 September, we don’t expect Apple to launch the iPad Pro 2 until 2017. However, there are two sides to the coin, read on to find out our thoughts on the subject. As with the two strands of iPhone models — the larger 6s and 6s Plus, last updated in September, and the smaller SE, updated in March — there are two schools of thought here. Either Apple will unify the two Pro brands into a single annual update event (most likely in autumn), or it will continue to update half the models in autumn and the other half in spring 2017. Both theories have down sides. If Apple does a full refresh (9.7-in and 12.9-inch together) in March 2017, then the current hardware will be starting to feel old before then — the original Pro will be 18 months old, which is a long time to be the most expensive tablet on Apple’s books. It the company does a full refresh in September then it will again upset a bunch of people who just bought new devices. Three major iPad updates in the space of 12 months might just be taking the mickey. (This might seem irrational — the launch of a new product doesn’t make the product you already own any worse — but there’s still something annoying about paying top dollar for a flagship product and then seeing something much better come out a short while later. We are only human, and if you pay for the best product then it would be nice to have the best product, at least from that manufacturer, for a year.) Maybe a better option would be for Apple to keep the two lines separate. But potential buyers are going to be naturally wary if new 12.9-inch iPad Pro 2 models appear in September 2016 — they will wonder, understandably, if all the new features and a few extra will appear in a cheaper 9.7-inch Pro 2 six months later. There’s also something a bit messy, a bit un-Apple, about having two press event to announce what would
There’s also something a bit messy, a bit un-Apple, about having two press event to announce what would essentially amount to two SKUs of the same product line. I think the company will want to keep things simple.
So here’s a new theory — a sort of compromise. Apple does an update in September 2016 but it’s explicitly a minor update — just to bring the Pro 12.9 up to the standards of the 9.7. You could call it the iPad Pro 12.9 with True Tone display, or not even rebrand it at all — just mention it at the end of the iPhone press event. “From now on the 12.9-inch iPad Pro comes with the True Tone display and improved cameras of the 9.7-inch model.” No price change, no big deal. Then the iPad Pro 2 proper comes out in March 2017, and from then on is updated on a yearly basis. A final thought, however, is that people don’t update their iPads as often as their iPhones: only 6 percent of the respondents to our poll said they get a new iPad every year. iPad Pro
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