Ross Rubin
| September 20, 2021 — 13:23 GMT (14:23 BST)
| Topic: Apple
iPhone 13 wasn’t the biggest star of Apple’s California Streaming event
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After offering tributes to the Golden State and promising its streaming subscribers a golden slate, Apple turned the attention of its California Streaming event to what have been its least glamorous iPads: the baseline model and the iPad mini. The specs for both have long lagged behind the company’s stages for advancing the tablet, In its divergent upgrades for each, though, Apple set a new roadmap for the products by resolving a longstanding conflict in their related histories.
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First came the iPad. With its classic Home button planted in the center of a bezel expanse just above the glacially fading Lightning connector, the baseline iPad’s design remains the last to bear the design DNA that defined the modern tablet. To be sure, the way Apple talks about the iPad has evolved 180 degrees in the decade since the original Pad. First positioned as something for tasks that fell between the smartphone and laptop, Apple now touts the device’s “amazing versatility,” a more grounded variation of its characterization as “a magical sheet of glass.” (Fret not, fans of silicon sorcery. Apple calls the iPad’s panning Center Stage camera functionality “magical.”)
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Ross Rubin
| September 20, 2021 — 13:23 GMT (14:23 BST)
| Topic: Apple