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M4 iPad Pro: Thinner, Lighter, and More Powerful!
Mar 11, 2025
Discover why the M4 iPad Pro is the biggest leap forward in iPads we've ever seen. This segment dives into its impressive new features, from being visibly thinner and lighter to its stunning OLED display with tandem technology. Ed Hardy, our resident iPad expert, shares unique insights you won't find elsewhere. 📱✨ Timestamps: 0:00 – Intro: Best parts of the M4 iPad Pro 0:22 – Why wait for a refurbished model 0:49 – The durability and longevity of iPads 1:08 – Ed Hardy's review highlights 1:21 – Noticeably lighter and visibly thinner 1:34 – Improved screen, performance, and battery life 2:00 – Tandem OLED technology explained 3:48 – Reducing screen burn-in with tandem OLED 5:01 – Higher spec M4 chip in 1TB models 5:27 – Performance comparison in Geekbench tests 6:11 – Efficiency gains of the M4 chip 6:33 – The real game changer: lightweight design 7:12 – Future of Apple's slim devices Learn how the M4 iPad Pro sets a new standard and why it's worth the upgrade. Subscribe to our channel for more in-depth reviews and the latest Apple news! 🚀🔔 More Apple news: http://www.cultofmac.com
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let's talk about the best parts of the
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M4 iPad Pro which no Griffin I have not
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purchased yet I know that's coming I
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have not purchased one yet
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preemptive I am probably G to buy one
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though because this is I think in my
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opinion the biggest Leap Forward in
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iPads that we've ever received and I
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definitely want one but I'm going to
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wait for it to hit the refurbished store
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I don't need one yet that's the problem
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with the iPad you just never need to
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replace it they last like 15 years or
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until you crack the screen or your kid
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cracks the screen out for you buy it
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that's also an option that that is the
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voice of someone who has definitely had
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that happen to them before and my
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daughter's like I didn't know putting my
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knee on it would hurt
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it oh well I guess we both learned a
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hard lesson today you learn that iPads
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are not indestructible and I learned
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never buy a brand new iPad for your kids
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sorry Griffin I
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digress well anyways we've been talking
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about the iPads for you know a couple
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weeks now but Ed Hardy has uh you know
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he's he's the the iPad guy called ma he
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uses it every day for his as his only
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computer for doing all of his work so he
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is really the guy to do the review of
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this and he's I've picked out a few uh
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interesting details from his review that
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I don't think we've really heard talked
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about elsewhere you know the kind of
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stuff that you can't get you know just
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from reading about it online so what
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stands out most about Apple's new tablet
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is that it's noticeably lighter and
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visibly thinner than its predecessors
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without compromising any of the other
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features the screen looks better the
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performance is improved and the battery
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life is unaffected it really is
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amazing the nearly quarter pound
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decrease and the weight of the M4 iPad
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Pro makes laying uh makes laying back on
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the couch and reading undeniably more
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comfortable the M4 iPad Pro here's an
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interesting tidbit is 50% thinner than
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the iPhone 15 plus wow we all knew that
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it was a thinnest Apple device ever but
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like 50% thinner than a current model
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iPhone that's kind of crazy
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the screen of the M4 iPad Pro you know
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utilizes what Apple calls tandem OLED
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technology that Stacks two OLED panels
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on top of each other for greater full
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screen brightness um which we' heard
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about but to get a different perspective
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on it Ed spoke with Ross young the CEO
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of display display supply chain
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Consultants who said quote tandem OLED
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panels significantly boost emitting
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efficiency lifetime brightness and
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reduce Burnin one of the suppliers of
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the tandem OLED panels on the iPad Pro
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LG display has indicated that tandem
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panels offer 1.5 to 2x higher efficiency
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4X higher Lifetime and cut power
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consumption by 40% while boosting
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brightness by 30% I don't understand how
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they Implement a tandem OLED I mean once
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you put two oleds together together
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isn't that just one OLED at that
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point it's two separate panels but it is
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it is driving as if it's one display so
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like from the iPad's perspective like
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the processor is only drawing the screen
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once and sending that out of the display
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controller but then it's just outputting
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that to two separate panels that are
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stacked on top of each other so like one
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in the top half one in the lower half no
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they're they're actually like two
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displays that cover the entire surface
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of the display but they're just on top
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of each other like on the z-axis so like
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one like sandwiched like an ice cream
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sandwich of display so this kind of goes
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back to our Maybe conversation last week
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where if you have two of these panels
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together neither of them ever needs to
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get as bright or reach their Max
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brightness which is what I think causes
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burning if you have oleds that are too
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bright for too long it can cause burning
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so maybe that's how they achieve a
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reduction of burn anyway sorry you're
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probably going to read this in the next
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paragraph It's probably in there I'm
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just taking oh yeah I bet I bet that's
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it because like I have an old iPhone 10
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that I got from a friend when they
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upgraded their phone and like if you
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it it looks perfectly fine in normal
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usage but if you turn the screen
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completely white and turn the brightness
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up you can see exactly the sorts of
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things that burned into the display like
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you can see a little square from where
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the Apple Maps app shows the uh the
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speed limit sign you can see like tabs
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on the bottom of the screen that I
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burned in from like the the Facebook
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tabs that are on the bottom of the
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Facebook app like stuff like that so I
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bet I'm I'm really interested when
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they're going to bring a tandem Ola
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display to the iPhone if ever maybe this
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year maybe next year maybe maybe it's
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you know such an expensive technology
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that it'll be a while on a lower margin
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device I don't know um it is also the
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first OLED tablet panel with what is
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called a rigid plus thin film
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encapsulation substrate oh um I I don't
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really know what that is but Apple
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required the panel suppliers to
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chemically etch the single substrate
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from .5 mm down to2 mm making it even
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thinner H so that that that's partly why
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it's so thin um iPad Pro Models with one
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terabyte or more of storage also come
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with a higher spec version of the M4
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chip with 10 cores iPads with a lower
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spec storage get lower spec chips with
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only nine cores I believe we we knew
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about that and I think the open question
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was well how much of a difference is
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that going to make you know is is it do
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you really need to avoid the lower spec
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model but uh Ed ran some geekbench tests
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he got a multi-course score of
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13,272 whereas the higher spec models
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score about
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14,600 so from that we can learn that
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it's really not a significant difference
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in speed between the two you know you
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don't have to worry about getting the
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one with all of the
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cores uh
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finally um a lot of people have been
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asking and you know writing spewing
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thousands of words in the iPad discourse
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about ah why do people need so much
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power why does the why does ANP IP ad
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you know need need such a powerful chip
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iPad OS is is wasted uh well it turns
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out that like the thin design seems to
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be like largely enabled by the
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efficiency gains of the M4 uh Ed writes
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that without the M4 a larger battery
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would have been necessary and you can
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see that the like physical capacity of
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the battery has gotten
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smaller but it actually offers improved
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battery life because the M4 is so fast
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and
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efficient and you know that that's only
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enabled with like the latest generation
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of Apple
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silicon um and he he concludes that
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finally the lightweight of the M4 iPad
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Pro is a real game Cher it means I use
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the 2024 version more than its
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predecessor and honestly it makes my
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iPhone seem thick so well this kind of
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ties into the whole iPhone slim
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discussion which is a really
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interesting new product direction for
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Apple to create a phone that is going to
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be so slim that they think it's worth
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calling it the iPhone slim and and it
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seems as though what they're doing with
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the iPad is coming in iPhone 17 and
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there's going to be like a slim option
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like this is a preview of where we're
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headed for iPhone 17 it seems if you
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could get a phone that's Slimmer but
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sturdier more rigid and have it have the
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same battery life and and better
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performance but also be significantly
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Slimmer like I don't I don't know if
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that's exactly where we're headed
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because they're removing the backlight
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from iPads which I think allows them to
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make the iPad much Slimmer because now
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it's OLED and it's self-illuminating
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pixels and stuff and you already have
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those in the iPhones but if you could
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make something that's super slim but
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also extremely rigid obviously that's
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going to be a big part of it right we
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don't want an iPhone 6 uh situation on
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