Meet the new iPad Pro, iPad 10 and Apple TV

October 18, 2022

Apple on Tuesday morning introduced a new iPad Pro, a revamped entry-level iPad and a slimmed-down Apple TV -- but some of the design choices are puzzling.

The 10th-generation iPad gets a landscape camera -- which users have been demanding for more than a decade, and is great -- but the iPad Pro does not.

Presumably, the lower-end tablet got a major internal redesign to move the camera to a new position, but the new Pro didn't warrant it?

The entry-level tablet also got a new Magic Keyboard Folio that has proper function keys and dedicated keys for Siri, emoji and even an Escape key! Things users have been requesting for a long time.

Yet the iPad Pro, which would really benefit from these kinds of pro-level features, didn't get any updated input accessories. Doh!

And to top it all off, the low-end iPad gets a new dongle, which everyone hates!

The new iPad now charges via USB-C but is only compatible with the first-generation Apple Pencil. That stylus is designed to charge using a Lightning port, which the new iPad omits. Hence the need for a new charging dongle that converts Lightning to USB-C. Pencil users are gonna love that.

Plenty of observers are scratching their heads at these weird design choices -- see the featured tweets below -- as well as the confusing lineup of iPads that Apple now sells. The models now include the base iPad, iPad Air, iPad Pro and the old iPad 9, which Apple is keeping around as the cheapest option.

It's reminiscent of Apple in the old days, when the company produced elaborate flowcharts to help users decide between a head-spinning lineup of dozens of different Macs with only small differences between them.

At least the new Apple TV seems to be getting a good reception: It's lighter, thinner and -- this is very unlike Apple -- cheaper, too!

-- Leander Kahney, EIC.

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Tweetz o' the day

One more thing ...

Just before introducing the first iPad: "This will be the most important thing I've ever done." -- Steve Jobs, 2010.

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