iPad Pro 2014 Release: New Features That Would Betray Steve Job's Original Vision
Apple rumors are nothing new, and most ends up untrue. It does seem that analysts have a hard time to predict what Apple will do next, especially what they have in the pipeline as a next 'revolutionary' product.
Many feel innovation is dead at Apple after the departure of its founder, Steven Jobs, but Tim Cook in a July call with investors told them that they can look forward to "amazing new products that we will introduce in the fall and across 2014".
The big question is, did Job's dream of making a company that will live on much further than its founder truly continue innovations that will change the world? The world waits with baited breathe.
A further question that we can ask in speculating future products is: will Apple stay true to Steve Job's original vision or values in their innovation? Jobs was very focused on not following the trend of the market, but instead on intuition to create products that he himself is proud of as a work of art, and end up to be a greatly lusted gadget for consumers around the world. Will Apple continue to design by intuition, or market trend?
In speculating the iPad Pro with a larger 12.9-inch screen, this could be just seen as a market trend, which then makes this product itself a betrayal of Steve Job's vision. However as maclife's column reasons, that just as iPod began with the iPod itself which then iterated into the iPod Nano and the iPod Touch, the iPad can also iterate itself to the iPad Pro with the larger, fancier screen. So to produce the iPad Pro still fits Jobs' design pattern.
So what would be considered a betrayal of Steven Job's vision then? Here's a list of (possible) new features on the iPad Pro that would have upset him:
Physical Keyboard
Steve Jobs began the iPad with the emphasis on Multi-touch technology. One of the intended usage for this technology was to type on the touch screen. In fact, physical keyboards were considered in the beginning, but rejected by Jobs. Thus for the iPad Pro to have physical keyboard, even one that is on the Smart Cover - would seem like only doubling up the keyboards which surely would have rubbed Jobs' minimalistic design intuition the wrong way.
Stylus
When Steve Jobs first saw the tablet that Microsoft produced that had a stylus, he sneered at the idea of still having to use a pen and was in favor of using only fingers for input. He had said: "God gave us 10 styluses-let's not invent another," So for the iPad Pro to come with a stylus, no matter how amazing Apple makes it, it would still be a betrayal of his vision of the iPad entirely.
OS X
Just the thought of having OS X running on the iPad Pro may completely blow the minds of many, who has been desiring to be more productive on the iPad, but that's not the intentioned usage of the iPad. It was designed to be filler in the gap between the iPhone and the Macbook, and boasts of simplicity in both usage and ability. Thus to make it more powerful to do infinitely more things would not have been on the agenda of Jobs if he was in charge.
Micro SD Slot
Almost all devices have it, and it gives the user the convenience of expanding the memory easily and affordably. However even at the conception of the iPad, whether to include the Micro SD slot was rejected by Jobs. "Too complicated," he concluded, and thus there has not been one iPad with a memory card slot until now. Will the new iPad Pro sport one? If it did, Jobs would have been furious.
These features would be ones that many users are already asking for many years since the iPad is born, now the question will be whether Apple will yield its innovation to its founder, or to the demand and trends of the market.
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