heatlesssun
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Apple's earnings released today confirms iPad's death with another 18% drop on top of previous year over year losses. If Apple doesn't come out with a Mac OS X tablet/hybrid they're going to be hurting relying on just iPhones alone.
The 75 million iPhones way more than made up for the loss on the iPad side. But yeah, the iPad line is getting a bit dated and expensive for what it is. And I think it's a good bet that we will see the rumored 12.9" iPad Pro launch in by spring and it will probably have some sort of digital pen technology. And it would be surprised if it had some type of laptop conversion capability as well.
Main stream tablets have simply become a cheap commodity with now both Android and Windows in that space. And Apple's not going there. But going for a market like the Surface Pro 3 is much more in line with their business model.