Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Monday, August 28th, 2023.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

Apple looks to refresh the iPad line to invigorate sales. Huge network crashes grounding planes in the UK, some

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Here's what you miss today in the world of Tech. I don't remember how much I highlighted this in the last Apple

earnings report report but in a period where basically all of their hardware

sales have been down, the real outlier for

Apple was the iPad.

So Mark Germin says that for 2024, Apple is planning the iPad Pro's first major upgrade since 2018 featuring a new

M3 chip and oled screen and a magic keyboard with a larger trackpad quoting

German in Bloomberg. The product was once seen as a

potential successor to the Mac, but now the iPad generates the least amount of

revenue among Apple's major segments. This past quarter, sales slipped to the lowest level

since the cusp of the pandemic in early 2020.

And it's not just a revenue problem.

Apple's unit shipments decline 17% in the second quarter according to data from I.

On its most recent earnings call, the company blamed a tough comparison with last year

when it rolled out a new iPad air.

But there's clearly a broader problem.

Like desktops and laptops, tablet sales have slumped since a pandemic fueled surge.

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