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Clemario OP t1_it3bk2t wrote

Apple announced the new iPad a few days ago and it came with a hefty price bump, and that got me wondering about the actual inflation-adjusted cost of the iPad over time.

This graph only looks at the "base model" iPads. For the sake of this, the iPad Air and iPad Air 2 will be considered "base", even though today the iPad Air is considered a separate line. At the time, the iPad Air was the successor to the 4th gen iPad. It wasn't until the iPad Air 3 (2019) was released alongside the 6th gen iPad that they started to really treat it as a separate line.

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f10101 t1_it45az3 wrote

Is there an outsized performance bump for this latest generation?

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Clemario OP t1_it46vkh wrote

There’s a few changes… a bigger brighter display, all-screen design (no home button), more case color options, faster chip, better camera, USB-C, 5G support, 4K video. But the general sentiment is it’s a big price bump for what it has.

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