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iPad Pro versus Apple Vision Pro

After iPad was introduced by Steve Jobs in 2010, he described the product as post-PC — a popular term of the era. The concept of post-PC has become a reality as more people use iPhones and iPads than Macs by multiple magnitudes.

While iPad is one potential future of computing, Apple Vision Pro represents another. It is Apple’s first spatial computer that runs visionOS and paves the way for future AR and VR platforms.

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Grab the lowest price on record on this M2 MacBook Air.

The $170 discount off MSRP, which is labeled a limited time deal at Amazon, offers the best price we’ve seen on Apple’s M2 chip with an 8-core CPU and 8-core GPU.

Buy for $829

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Delays over Apple’s iPhone 14 saw its sales boost come late, which has now affected yearly comparisons

Even if 52% of the market really does not constitute a monopoly, figures from Counterpoint Research say the market is shrinking. As well as the 8% drop between Q1 2023 and Q1 2024, the US smartphone market has now declined for six consecutive quarters.

However, one reason for the latest quarter’s decline is that there was a significant sales difference in the same period in 2023 because of a difficult 2022 holiday season, supply-wise. The iPhone 14 range that was launched in 2022 had been hit by COVID-related production delays, so it saw its main sales later than usual.

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The patent doesn’t appear to rule out a touch screen Mac, but it’s focused on the Touch Bar-like strip

It’s just a patent application and not only may one of those not be granted, it may not ever lead to an actual product if it is. Except this patent application made public on May 9, 2024 is an expansion of a series of previous ones — including some that have actually been granted.

So this is not a skunkwork project by a few Apple people, it is a project that at least was under continuous development. Mildly hidden under the dull title of “Mountable tool computer input,” it’s really about how an Apple Pencil could be used with a MacBook Pro.

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