" makes more sense if you're making a larger iPad," Gottheil argued.
Gottheil countered, saying he's not ready to give up on his prediction - now years in the making - that Apple will build its own keyboard, then marry it to a larger iPad for a Surface competitor.
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They're not interested in a hybrid."įederighi also talked up how iOS 9 will make existing third-party Bluetooth keyboards better and more productive, another clue to Milanesi that Apple would not craft its own accessory.
"Look at what they showed with the iPad, with the keyboard becoming a touchpad," she said of a Federighi demo of controlling the cursor in a document with a two-finger gesture that could use the entire screen, even overtop the on-glass keyboard. Milanesi interpreted other Federighi comments of Monday as vetoing Apple producing its own iPad keyboard in an attempt to make a 2-in-1 analogous to Microsoft's Surface Pro. More than a year ago, weeks prior to 2014's WWDC, chatter intensified, with experts seeing sales opportunities in education and business as consumer tablet sales stagnated. Rumors of a split-screen mode in iOS have popped up periodically as well. ultra-light laptop, hasn't quieted analysts' predictions that Apple would venture into the bigger size, just as it did last year with the iPhone 6 Plus. Even the launch last month of the Retina MacBook, a 12-in. has circulated almost since the tablet's 2010 debut. rather than the current maximum of 9.7-in. Talk of a larger iPad - one with a screen of 12-in. I got the impression that Apple wants to move some of their keyboard-using customers to iOS." "They're enhancing the capabilities of the iPad as a business tool, but will work better on a even larger screen.
To analysts like Milanesi, iOS 9's new windows management modes - and the multi-app management they require - signaled that Apple would soon release the long-rumored larger-screen iPad.Įzra Gottheil of Technology Business Research agreed.
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