iPad Pro 2015 Update: Reported Specs and Features of Upcoming iPad Pro, Product Launch at Apple Event this October

iPad pro is supposedly a new larger iPad, aiming to become the next professional tablet. It was initially said to be released within this year, but it is rather likely to be released in the earlier months of 2015. This is based on Bloomberg reports that stated "people with knowledge of the matter" are claiming the said release detail. Bloomberg also reported recently that iPad Pro suppliers are already preparing to manufacture the new gadget.

As for the iPad Pro features, the 12.9 inch iPad may come with "a new user interface that's more innovative and intuitive, so that input will be as efficient as a device with keyboard". It is also expected to come with an improved A8X chipset, as also found in the recent iPhone 6. This with an improved processor will help support the 12.9 inch screen.

It has been reported recently that Apple already "set internal project and marketing deadlines of mid-October, ahead of the planned unveiling of major new products during the second half of the month". This means that the fans can expect the actual iPad Pro to show up anytime soon. To be exact, Apple will be holding the marketing event on October 21.

Given that the iPad Pro features are intended to be better than the iPad Air, but not as far as the MacBook Air goes, the price for the new iPad Pro will be somewhere between the prices of the said two gadgets.

Liquid gold takes form as an iPhone 5S in Apple’s first TV advertisement for the device.

The spot debuted Sunday during an NFL broadcast on FOX, according to The Verge. It also played on CBS’s NFL coverage later in the day.

Apple introduced its newest flagship smartphone, along with a cheaper plastic-shelled iPhone 5C, last month. Early data indicates the 5S is outselling its less expensive counterpart by double. The gold iPhone 5S, which wasn’t available at most locations until weeks after its launch, has been in particularly high demand.

Keeping with the gold theme, Goldfrapp’s “Ooh La La” plays during the ad, which highlights the device’s design and fingerprint scanner. Watch it in the video, below.

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Apple has the prototypical good-news, bad-news scenario on its hands, with soaring sales of its flagship iPhone 5S contrasting sharply with souring sales of its “for the colorful” iPhone 5C.
“Our latest channel checks confirm that Apple indeed has cut back 5C production by 35 percent and increased 5S production by 75 percent,” NPD DisplaySearch analysts Tina Teng and Shawn Lee posted today.

There has been a ton of speculation on iPhone 5C sales, much of it saying that production has been cut back by 50 percent or more. NPD, which is generally fairly accurate in its channel checks, is slightly more credible than others. These number make sense given that the iPhone 5S has been outselling 5C by a large margin, both in the U.S. and overseas.

NPD says there’s two reasons why the iPhone 5C is not selling well: the actual price, and the market perception that the price should have been cheaper. Apple is prioritizing profit over revenue, as per usual, while generally consumers felt that the product would come in perhaps half or two-thirds of the iPhone 5S’s price, rather than just $100 less.

The good news for Apple is that the iPhone 5S is selling incredibly well. That’s good for short-term profits.
The bad news, for long-term investors, is that iPhone 5C is not really achieving what some — particularly those outside Apple — saw as its goal: expanding the universe of potential iPhone owners, and thereby expanding Apple’s customer list in developing countries. That said, the 5C is a great iPhone in my testing and experience, and has the potential to do very well for Apple, if the company can just get over its self-imposed need for what some would call unrealistically high margin expectations.

Especially since the iPhone 5 is schedule to end production this quarter, and the iPhone 4S is likely nearing the end of its production runs as well. Which means that Apple will need a low-end model that isn’t a year or two old design.

Although, there are other options:
“Perhaps Apple could have avoided the effort it took to develop the iPhone 5c, and just continued selling the two-year old iPhone 4 at a lower price to address the mid-range segment,” NPD says, tongue halfway into its cheek. (VB/SG)