There are too many iPads, iPhones, and Apple Watches

📅 Published: August 15, 2025

📰 Source: thestandard

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It’d be nice to have a faster tablet for odd tasks where my iPhone screen is too small and my laptop is too large — especially on vacation.

Besides, four years is a respectable amount of time to wait when all you want is a slightly faster (and perhaps more colorful) version of what you already got.

I moseyed on over to the Apple website.

There was the ninth-gen iPad and the 10th-gen iPad.

There was also the iPad Mini and the iPad Air.

I’m not a Pro, but there were two of those — an 11-inch and a 12. 9-inch model.

I’m a gadget reviewer.

I know several other gadget reviewers, and I knew what I wanted out of a new iPad.

You’d think I’d have been able to suss this out.

As my colleague Monica Chin aptly put it, the new iPad doesn’t make sense.

At $449, it’s too expensive to be entry level — especially when, as my editor Dan Seifert points out in his review, the Air can easily be found on sale.

Plus, I’m not buying a silly USB-C to Lightning Pencil adapter just to try digitizing my analog calligraphy hobby.