Report: Apple flushes 12.9-inch MaxiPad plan down the drain Remember that 12.9-inch Apple iPad that was the darling of the rumor mill just months ago? Sources out of the Asian supply chain say, in their best New York accents, "Fuggedaboudit." The market-watchers at Taiwan's DigiTimes report that although large-size tablets have been all the buzz recently, those projects face problems …
"The problem with the larger Samsung pads is the price"
Agreed. I'm getting so sick of manufacturers adding a hundred bucks for every "feature" they throw in their devices. Add 16GB of memory that costs them maybe 5 dollars and that'll be another 100 to you and I.
This one is particularly nettling because the larger screen is either cheaper or a wash to the 10 inch due to probable lower defect rate in the glass.
I'd love to have a large tablet. I'd really like to have a 15" tablet. Maybe when Samsung starts writing off the 12 inchers and the discounting gets serious, I'll think about one.
Who made up the big iPad, and want to back off that prediction when they realize the 12.9 Retina screens were destined for MacBook Air like I said all along.
Like how they try to salvage their reputation by claiming that Apple binned the idea, rather than admitting "we were wrong and Apple was never going to do that in the first place, because there's no market for giant tablets"
I was reading somewhere that phablets are just 10% or for word wide sales, so I think apple was kinda right there. I do believe apple was wrong with smaller tablets. I am not sure myself if that because of price or that people really love smaller tablet sizes.
If I were designing a 13" 4K tablet for high volume production, easy to see problems with two key technical aspects.
1. Current SoC performance isn't quite up the 4K job and delays in new processes like volume TSMC 20nm and Intel 14nm means some 2014 products have had to be pushed back to 2015.
2. Yields on 13" 4K panels apparently means it continues to be difficult to hit decent volume pricing.
Basically adds up to better left until end 2014 probably Spring 2015 before making high volumes of devices in this category.
No need to ascribe a technical delay like this to marketing or childish 8" good 12" bad kind of commentary.
Popping into John Lewis today to get away from the peasants, I took a look at Dell's XPS 18 which can act in a tablet capacity, complete with its 18 inch screen.
I pointed out to Jeeves (while he was keeping the plebes away with a large stick) that while a large device has some attraction, particularly when one needs to show off one's portfolio, the disadvantage is that one's man servant would need beefy arms to hold such a tablet whilst one used said device.
Bertie
1. Start a rumour.
2. Samsung builds the rumour.
3. Evaluate Samsung's product, and it's performance in the market.
4. Decide whether or not to build your own product.
Seriously, I've said before that the MacRumours website could publish a rumour about an iTurd, and Samsung would take the bait.
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