The new iPad Pro is Apple’s most impressive tablet to date. One of its biggest changes is an ultrathin design. And you know what? I just don’t care about it.
Apple revealed the next generations of the iPad Air and iPad Pro last week during its Let Loose event. This week, the first wave of new iPads will arrive in stores and reach consumers worldwide.
Though we got a new 13-inch iPad Air in addition to the regular 11-inch size, the real star of the show was the iPad Pro. Now both the 11-inch and 13-inch models are equipped with a new tandem OLED Ultra Retina XDR display and the blazing-fast M4 chip, and the 1TB and 2TB models have a new nano-texture option for a matte finish display to reduce glare.
But don’t forget that Apple made the new 13-inch iPad Pro its thinnest product yet — coming in at a mere 0.2 inches thick (5.1mm), down from 0.25 inches (6.4mm) for its predecessor. Apple even made a highly controversial iPad Pro ad that showed a hydraulic press crushing many creative tools — such as musical instruments, books, cans of paint, computers, and more — into a superthin tablet.
That’s great and all, but did anyone really ask for a thinner iPad in the first place?Apple’s obsession with thinness
This isn’t the first time that Apple has shown its obsession with thin products. It’s been an ongoing thing for Apple, especially when Jony Ive was the chief design officer. Ive departed Apple in 2019 to form his own design firm, LoveFrom, but this apparently hasn’t stopped Apple from obsessing over creating the thinnest products possible.
One of Apple’s biggest controversies revolving around the thinness of its products related to the iPhone 6/6 Plus. At the time, this was Apple’s thinnest iPhone, but it had structural problems that resulted in it just not being rigid enough. The iPhone 6 eventually started bending from being in pockets, and we had the infamous “bendgate” debacle.
It became a bit of a joke at the time, but it’s also left many people wary of unbelievably thin devices.
