iPad - Next Major Upgrade Should Include Longer Battery Life
The 5th generation iPad Mini is my laptop. I’m semi-productive on it and I am very satisfied with what I can do with it. And with the lockdown and working from home, I have begun to explore more of what I can do with it including shooting and editing video with it. It means I am spending more time with it and not only consuming media, I am doing more CPU intensive tasks with it. So I think it’s time that Apple rethink what an all-day device means if Apple expects us to use our iPads for more than just play. Ten hours of battery life is so 2010 (when the original iPad was introduced. Ten hours might have been adequate in 2010. Maybe even through most of the decades but as more users use productivity apps, that might even be fine. From what I gathered, many users use their iPads to write and even do some light video work. But for the next decade, iPads with 12 to 15 hours of battery life is needed. And at some point, I think Apple will...