Apple Updates Entry Level iPad with Pencil Support

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Apple updates its most popular iPad. I'm Rich Demiro. This
is Rich on Tech Daily. Apple held an event today
to update its most popular iPad, that's the nine point
seven inch model that starts at three hundred and twenty
nine dollars. They held an event in Chicago that was
at a school and it was all about education. Apple
really wants to get the iPad in more classrooms, and

(00:26):
this is what they're doing to it to make that
possible with a better processor and now it can support
the Apple pencil. And that's a big deal if you're
in a classroom, because you want to be able to
jot down notes, you want to mark up screenshots, you
want to do all that good stuff that you can
do that the Apple pencil lets you do. This isn't
necessarily a new iPad. It's basically the same iPad we've

(00:47):
seen before, that three hundred and twenty nine dollars model,
just above the Mini and just below the iPad Pro.
And this is the model that I think most people
are going to be interested in for the everyday user.
The new iPad now as the A ten fusion chip inside,
which is faster than before. This is not a brand
new chip. It's been around since twenty sixteen. It was
first introduced in the iPhone seven, but now it's in

(01:09):
this iPad as well. Apple says it's forty percent faster
and fifty percent faster for graphics. The new iPad's going
to come in silver, space, gray, and a new gold finish.
It will sell for three hundred and twenty nine dollars,
which is the same price as the model it replaces.
That's for a thirty two gigabyte Wi Fi model. If
you want that cellular connectivity built in, that's going to

(01:30):
be four hundred and fifty nine dollars for a thirty
two gigabyte model. Now, if you want that Apple pencil,
it is not built in. You don't get that for free.
It is still a ninety nine dollars add on. Apple
has some educational pricing for the iPad. Schools can purchase
it for two hundred ninety nine dollars. That Apple pencil
just ten dollars off. At eighty nine dollars, you're looking
at three hundred and ninety dollars for just one student

(01:51):
to get the iPad along with the Apple pencil. That's
kind of expensive. The iPad, the new one is available
to order today. It's going to arrive in stores later
this week. Now, this is all very interesting because Apple
is big. We know a lot of people have iPhones
and I still think the iPad is definitely the gold
standard when it comes to tablets. But if you look
inside the classroom environment, a lot of schools that I

(02:15):
visit are using chromebooks, and I think with that in mind, Google,
if you heard the news they unveiled a tablet yesterday,
a tablet sort of aimed at schools as well. This
is their first tablet that's running the Chrome operating system.
It's called the Acer Chromebook Tab ten and this is
also three hundred and twenty nine dollars. But the difference
between this tablet and previous Android tablets is that it

(02:37):
doesn't run Android software. It's running Chrome OS. It's the
same software that Chromebook laptops in a lot of classrooms
are running right now. The device also has a stylus
built in, so you don't have to pay extra for
that stylus. So this is three hundred and twenty nine
dollars for everything. There you have it. New products from
Google and Apple aimed at the classroom, and at the
end of the day. I think it's great if kids

(02:59):
are exposed to a combination of these products. So they
have an iPhone, they know what iOS is all about.
iPads are great, they run that same thing. But it's
good for them to also know what Android is all about,
what chromos is all about, and of course what Windows
is all about, because they all offer different things and
work in different ways, and for the kids to be
the most successful in their lives, I think it's going

(03:19):
to be great for them to be exposed to a
combination of platforms. Thanks so much for listening. If you
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Apple Podcasts app. That way more people discover it. I'm
Rich Jamiro. You can find links to everything I mentioned
here Rich on tech dot Tv. Thanks so much for listening.
I'll talk to you real soon.