We thought they were going to take it off the market and either release an Air 3 or do something related to it. An update of such a product is not justified. There is no news that can be introduced without covering or surpassing the iPad Pro, so Apple cannot afford to update the Air range of its tablets. This being the case, they have had to go for another strategy: Wait, motivate and improve, without updating.
Is the iPad Air 2 a product that is lagging behind and should go away? No and a thousand times no. The only way for it to disappear would be to take out an Air 3 or something similar. If no one replaces you by matching and improving your specifications, you won't go away. What Apple has done has been to keep it as is but expand the storage capacity while maintaining or adapting the price. They will no longer be 16 or 64Gb. Very attentive to the news.
IPad Air 2 and Mini Expand Capacity
I am focusing this post on the 9,7-inch Air range, which is not only the one I have, but I also consider it to be the most attractive for users and the most important. But, because everything has a but, it is not the only one affected by this good news. Apple has also decided to modify the iPad Mini 4 And you could even say that also the Mini 2, which you will only find in a 32Gb option for € 289, If yours are the tiny iPads and adapted to take them with one hand and transport them as if they were a smartphone, then you can find the iPad Mini 4 with 32Gb or 128Gb for € 429 or € 539. The funny thing is the relationship it has with the Air range.
Very attentive, because 2Gb or 32Gb iPad Air 128 costs the same as Mini 4. Whether the size is 9,7 inches or 7,9 it will cost you the same. Seriously, Apple? Is this how you consider your tablets are worth? The fact that they have the same price has seemed very strong to me. Not because the Air is cheap, but because the mini is expensive. Of course, we must bear in mind that it has a very good amount of storage.
Rather than complain about the price of the Mini, I will be grateful that the Air has not gone up any more, but that it has remained with an attractive and positive price. It is the hope that not all Apple tablets will exceed € 650, as has happened with the Pro range, to which we must then add accessories. Both the keyboard and the Apple Pencil. Because since you buy the Pro you take it with everything.
IPads are the future of Apple
Little by little they expand their storage and their specifications. Its path is to become a replacement for the computer, the PC, and even the Macbook. In this, as has happened with the iPhone, they have found that 16Gb and 64 are capacities that fall short yes or yes. 32 is also a pittance, but as a minimum capacity it is not bad. It's always better than 16. AND for € 110 more, you jump to 128Gb. That is to say, quadruple it. What more could you want?
Apple is convinced that the future of the company is in the tablet. On the iPad, be it pro, mini or called Pepe or Juan. Computers will also be sold, iPhones will continue to triumph, and it won't mean the end of Macs or any other product. Some users will simply prefer to work on the iPad and use it and others, for needs or work, will choose the desktop operating system. Be that as it may, iOS and your devices must improve and grow. The iPhone is very complete and there are not many improvements that can be made on it, but iPad has a lot of headroom and travel.
We will see in 2017 what they surprise us with in this interesting range. If something happens or not with the iPad Air 2 and if iOS really grows and differs even more in the system for the tablet. At the moment we only know the changes that Apple has made in its store and the things that it has not presented this September.