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Comment by BiteCode_dev

14 hours ago

It is exotic, and bring only a little to the table for a stiff price increase.

Not really. It's an iPad + iPhone. That's hardly exotic. Both of those product categories sell very well. People who own an iPad mini and an iPhone have every reason to consider this for the merged cost.

  • Exactly. Maybe not v1, but the Duo will likely lead me to not buy another iPad.

    • I use an iPad Mini every day (I’m on it, right now). I also have a big iPad Pro, that I never use.

      It’s likely that I will end up getting a Duo, eventually. I’m not in a hurry. I’ll bet that there will be teething problems.

      I suspect all my apps will run OK on Duos. I have been designing for flexible iOS screen dimensions since Day One (2012). It was a habit I already had, from MacOS development, and all my apps work in landscape mode (It’s shocking, how many apps you can break, simply by turning the phone 90 degrees). Looks like an open Duo is about the same dimensions as running an iOS app on Mac (by default—you can easily resize Mac iOS app windows).

      I am interested in seeing if I can leverage running on inside and outside screens. That might be interesting (but I don’t know if that’s possible. They probably switch off the outer screen, when the device is open).

      I’ll bet that Apple ships an Apple Pen Mini, for Duos.