Model numbers please(!). I know there already was an iPad Pro, and now there's another iPad Pro. Is this the iPad PRO version 11 then (to correspond with the IOS version it was released for), or iPad PRO version 2017 (the year it was released)? Or is it version 2 or 3?
Microsoft appears to be doing the same thing with their Surface Pro, so it's not just Apple.
Look at Lenovo's site, e.g. for an X1 Carbon, and it tells you we're now on Gen 5. Thank you, Lenovo. And Dell doesn't try to hide that their latest XPS 15 is the 9560. Thank you, Dell.
I think they do fine with simple year numbers. The silly "air" and "pro" monikers seem to be confusing them. They seem to want to sunset the "air" qualifier, but they just refreshed it's CPU. I wish they would move back to a standard hardware set. Have their ultrabooks named one thing and keep them up to date. Do the same for the pro and desktop lines.
The net effect of the generic non-versioned "ipad" naming is to make me feel a bit dumb. I can recite spec changes between Samsung Galaxy models, and keep close track on aforementioned Dell and Lenovo products, but for the iPads I just draw a blank.
I don't know. I bought an iPad (Air?) a few years ago for my son. It may have been in September 2014; it's one of the slim ones (perhaps "2nd generation slim"??), and it looks pretty much the same as the newer ones.
I struggle to tell the difference between them; as long as it works I really don't feel an incentive to upgrade it. (Protip: The thick child iPad cases are just about bulletproof).
Microsoft appears to be doing the same thing with their Surface Pro, so it's not just Apple.
Look at Lenovo's site, e.g. for an X1 Carbon, and it tells you we're now on Gen 5. Thank you, Lenovo. And Dell doesn't try to hide that their latest XPS 15 is the 9560. Thank you, Dell.