The key different is the AIR has an operate USB-C off die controler compared to this iPad that is just using the USB controler within the SOC that is used for lighting.

Refurbished iPad Air is far better value than iPad basic…

Apple Lightning port supports up to USB 2.0. That while USB-C supports DisplayPort, Thunderbolt, USB4 and more if needed, like on the higher end iPads.

​Lightning supports display, audio and can reach higher speeds with the appropriate controller on the board. USB C is a clear downgrade in terms of durablity. Bring lightning back with an updated controller already. ​@@Arutemysu

Lightning and thunderbolt should still be the way to go for Apple. As of today, USB-C still has no standardisation and every manufacturer can be different in specs which made consumers confused and of course, money wasted.

The self service repair was designed to hold off the right to repair movement long enough so interdependent repair would die off. They will probably keep it around as something to point to when anyone questions them.

The iPad was brought back as the ‘school model’ and has always had a separate digitizer since then. Glad they haven’t gone back to the iPad Air 2 debacle with the digitizer bonded to the LCD (they were selling the Air to schools at that time).

I don't even Apple

Repair community. Is that a thing? Seriously asking.

@@zc7396 I feel like it might be less so repair community and right to repair community.

@@zc7396 As generic name hint partly Right to repair and others of us that isn't much for throw away society. Excellent tools and parts available plus the guides, hard to beat!

don’t agree

They could have put it on the other side or make a new apple pencil pro like samsung that's full blue tooth and can attach to any magnet on the tablet

that sounds really plausible, the deadline explains the non-existant macbook 2022

You mean, the self-imposed deadline? No, sorry. This is not a hard engineering problem. This is a problem caused by setting a weird requirement for a camera placement and where the pen charges, ahead of more important things. Bear in mind this is the company that thought their first pencil design was good, and not an accident waiting to happen.

@@StarLightFIlmProductions The other side of the iPad is used by the keyboard pins. I’m not sure what you’re trying to say with the second point - the pencil is already “full Bluetooth”, the problem is how to charge it. When I look up Samsung’s pen, it looks like they need to be connected via magnets to a specific location on the tablet to charge, which is what Apple did with Pencil 2.

@@bawbsmith they should at least make the iPad a bit thicker to implement that but also I'm not talking about the samsung pens that come with the galaxy tab I'm talking about the spen pro the one that you can charge by hooking it up to your USB c charger all you have to do is grab the cord and plug it in to charge even tho that was the past with the first Gen apple pencil this spen pro dose not need to be in the tablet but also at the same time it's nice to just have it connected to the tablet itself

Im assuming you mean car wheel being not tier. Very few consumers have the equipment to correctly replace a car tire, we can swap out a spar wheel but the needed tools to properly replace a tier on a week and do it properly so that there is no dirt/grime etc in the seal is non trivial. In fact many tiers do use a form of glue like martial to bond/seal that needs some heat to remove. The last thing you want is any dirty making its way into that seal.

​@@hishnash You' re correct. I was thinking of changing a flat or worn down bicycle tire for some reason. 🤔🤷‍♂ Wasn't really thinking about the technicality, just an example. Let's say sneakers (soles) glued down to our feet? 😂

@@em0_tion true while one would not glue to sneaker shues to your feet as you might want to change what you are wearing the soles on all sues made in the last 200+ years have been glued (and sometimes also sown). the use of glue has many functions but one of the most common is to ensure a seal to stop water, dust etc. Glue in most situations can be removed (like the glue used to seal the screen or battery in an iPad) but as a user case. I see many people wanting batteries to be screwed down but the nature of lithium batteries is that if you put a single point of pressure (such as a screw) into them when they expand they become spicy and start to smoke/burn, (and all of these batteries at some point expand). So gluing (with pull tabs) a battery on one side is the best option as this does not provide and localised compression points on the battery when it does expand (they all expand at some point). It is much better for the battery to gradually push open a device. Just think of how many of these devices will be forgotten at the bottom of peoples draws etc in 10 years time when the batteries start to swell. It is very important that when this happens the swelling can happen without starting a fire, by just gluing the back of the battery in when the battery expands there is uniform pressure across the battery and that pressure is low enough that the expansion can slowly pop of the screen (as the alternative is starting a fire).

@@hishnash bruh tires are NOT that clean to seal. its mostly pressure that does it. ive seen a tire glued but its rare and only done when the wheel is minorly damaged, anything more and you just have to replace the wheel. ive actually done tires for a living, have you? doesnt seem like it

The iPad Air 4th Gen has the same A14 chip as the new iPad so under the hood they're essentially the same device in an almost identical enclosure

They are nearly the same. I've already had to do quite a few repairs on them and they mostly use the same parts as each other.

There are some speculations on the 5th generation build quality (thinner aluminium compared to 4th generation) and iFixit never did a teardown, lol.

@@mochimejika do they share the glass and lcd like other iPads compatibility wise

@@MrMariovideo13 It's a fused display on them rather than separate like on standard iPads. The air 4 and 5 do use the same screen though yes.

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You already know why, it's to force unnecessary logic board replacements, therefore forcing consumers to consider premium support/a brand new device. Good old eco-friendly Apple, throwing away devices just because a port was damaged 🙄

Manufacturing cost and capacity. Building the cable and welding it to the board can be all done on an automated production like. Attaching a ribbon cable using a socket required manual labor this costs money but also right now is very limited (given the issues with supply chain). I expect right now given all of these devices are supply constrained based on manual labour not automated production like. if apple can 1/2 the amount of manual production time needed for each device they can ship 2x the number of units.

Easier said than done

If only the world was that simple🫥

Apple will never do that because they prefer to keep the magnetic charger centered.

@@peterthepanda for which no human being should be an apologist. They should only be criticised for that sort of design aesthetic thinking.

Sounds like Apple

@@BrybryToo Think different

most phones are usb 2.0 type c

Yeah but they just HAD to retire the 9th gen by now. ..oh wait

But muh shareholders

cost cotting.

Actually, Apple takes this gap as a downgrade that is supposed to push people upwards in their product stack.

@@terriplays1726 Makes it easier to repair tho

@@frokfrdk Honestly, I feel Apple should make a "repairable" version of their devices. And call them "R", iPhone R easy to open, not laminated screen, screw in battery and main board, modular charge port. Same for an iPad R and an MacBook R. It will lose some of the high end features because of it, but you can make a device that is fully repairable.

@@SanderEvers iPhone XR

Agreed. Apple Pencil has it's place, and the Apple Pencil 2 is awesome-for those who use it. Far more prospective buyers will find themselves using the webcam for videoconferencing though. Reviewers seemed confused by this iPad, but lots of people will buy it who would never buy an Apple Pencil, and those people will thoroughly appreciate the camera placement and the USB C charging connector. Apple made this product with certain users in mind, and those users will really appreciate the design decisions, without even noticing the drawbacks (even the USB 2.0 speeds are a budget-meeting measure that won't affect most consumers).

And it looks cheap as f. Wish they just supplies cheaper replacement screens

@@nami1540 since it is non-laminated the front glass can be replaced without replacing the display panel this means it is much easier for third parties to make replacement options.

These folks will never be happy

@@hishnash That's not what he's saying. Apple didn't do this for better repairability, they did it to cut costs on the lower end iPad. Laminated screens looks much better but are more expensive, and more expensive to repair. That's why they're only on the more expensive models.

The battery is 28.6 Watt hours. No specifics as to how much that is in mAh. Battery life on iPads is typically 10 hours.

Thank you very much, I just googled the MAH for this iPad and it’s exactly the same as the 2020 iPad Air. It’s rated as 7606 MAH

Don't need to but always should

The gen 1 has always come with a Lightning to Lightning dongle in the box so you can charge it at the end of a Lightning cable. It's easy to lose though so it was never a good design choice!

It's soldered, if you listen he said it's the same as previous models and they weren't welded.

@@AndrewWhitham right. so he shouldn't have used the word "welded" in this case. I mean he mentionedthe word "welded" a couple times throughout the video and it creates an assumption that it's actually welded rather than soldered. afterall: welding != soldering

@@iamwisdomsky it's small things like this as to why I usually avoid ifixit. They market themselves as anti apple and pro repair but they have sub par knowledge on a lot of things and also then charge you apple prices for their spare parts.

welded just means its not got a connector you can flip up and detach it from the mainboard. soldering is still technically welding. you're melting a metal and using it to fuse metal to metal.

Maybe because the iPad 10 is $449 while the Glaxy Tab S8 is $850

@@FlorianWendelborn Doesn't matter, if they can produce an adaptor for the pen, they can add some magnets to the back of the iPad for charging a pen. Magnets are cheap, they already have produced the wireless charging for the other iPads, they just need to move the magnets from one position to another, the work has been done before.

would make very little sense. The only people buying this in large volumes that use pencils are education market and that market is mostly getting the logictec crypon that has a female USB-C option for a few years.

@@hishnash The dongle would be to help the schools that have already bought Gen 1 in bulk. They need to quit selling the Gen 1 regardless and just go for the Crayon. But I agree to the Logitech Crayon is much better then the Apple Pencil. Its just bizarre.