Report: Apple Working on Building Bigger iPad
The iPad XL rumor has surfaced while Dell removes itself as the last remaining Windows RT tablet maker.
With the new iPhone models out of the way, the Apple spotlight now focuses on what the company will introduce next in the iPad line. The company is expected to reveal new 9.7 inch models and an updated iPad Mini in the next several months, but there has also been talk about an iPad XL model as well. Leading Taiwanese newspaper United Daily News claims that Quanta Computer is actually working with Apple on the larger iPad model.
Typically, Apple relies on Foxconn and Pegatron to manufacture its tablets and phones, whereas Quanta Computer handles the MacBook Air. The Taiwanese paper reports that Quanta is actually looking to diversify, thus it's possible the company could actually be working on a MacBook Air with a detachable keyboard so that users can use the device as a tablet and a notebook. Maybe it will be marketed as an iPad just because of the detachable keyboard.
As it stands now, Apple provides 11 inch and 13 inch MacBook Air models. Up until now, sources claim that the iPad XL will sport a screen somewhere between 12 inches and 13 inches. Add a super-thin keyboard to that form factor, and what do you have? A possible makeshift MacBook Air. This, of course, is just speculation.
Rumors of a larger iPad form factor first arrived earlier this year, and then surfaced again in July with news that Apple was testing prototypes with 13 inch screens. What's unknown at this point is whether the larger device will sport the same resolution as the 9.7 inch model but will be stretched out across the physical space, or provide a higher ppi. Given that CEO Tim Cook said that 2014 would be a big year for Apple on the devices front, expect to see this iPad XL model next year.
When Windows 8 was launched, Tim Cook stated that mixing desktop/laptop with tablets/phones is a bad idea. But then again it's not the first time they bash a competitor and then backtrack their comments by doing the same. Like for example, the iPad Mini.
I see what you did there... Raise Apple while putting down MS. Let's see how this new iPad stand up against the Surface Pro
Baa haa haa... Sorry that was funny
I'm not talking rooting the device here either. I want it built in to the OS!
The apple Iconvertible
Consumer: It's new technology, amazing stuff
Nerd: Wait a second.....
Apple: Buy our product
The biggest "downfall" for a 10 inch tablet for me personally is the weight, if they were lighter that would make me use one a lot more. Granted the last tablet I used of that size was a TF101 so I imagine technology has made great leaps since those days.
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here we have Apple copying them again! LOL
If Apple is copying them, they would have also revealed a 12.2inch tablet, instead of a 9.7 inch one. Truly, your name lives up to your opinions and standards and being regarded as a fanboy really has amazing abilities to cloud your judgement.