Phil Schiller43:26
Thank you. Good morning, everyone. I couldn't be more excited to be the one to be able to tell you all about iPad. Customers really have fallen in love with the new iPad Pro in the six months that it's been on the market. They're in love with the huge 12.9-inch Retina display, all its performance, all the capabilities, the speaker system, and the Apple Pencil. That is a true revolutionary breakthrough. We're hearing so much from customers around the world, customers like John Lasseter, Chief Creative Officer of Pixar and Disney Animation Studios. John had this to say, "The iPad Pro and the Apple Pencil are the closest we've ever been able to get in the digital world to actually drawing on paper." Or Stephen Gates, Head of Design at Citi. "At Citi, iPad Pro is truly transforming how we work. Our design team has incorporated iPad Pro into their daily workflow, allowing them to create, collaborate and share ideas in new ways." And Alex Valdman, Head of Design at Rapha. "iPad Pro goes with me everywhere. For everything I do, including designing the latest cycling collection, it has not only replaced my laptop but my paper notebook as well." People love iPad Pro. It is a revolutionary device. And so, that's why, today, we're so excited to introduce to you, for the first time, the second member of the iPad Pro family. An entirely new iPad Pro based around a 9.7-inch Retina display. And it weighs less than one pound. It is an iPad Pro through and through. But why make a second iPad Pro that's smaller? Well, there are two really great reasons. First, we started iPad with a 9.7-inch display for a very good reason, it's a large enough display to get all of your work done, but small and light enough to carry with you everywhere you go. People have loved the size. And from the beginning, it has remained our most popular iPad size. In fact, I'm really happy to tell you that to date, we've sold over 200 million iPads with a 9.7-inch display. So, for all of these customers, when they learn about the features of iPad Pro, they'll all see that it is their ultimate upgrade. There's a second group of people that we would love to reach with this new iPad Pro, Windows users. You may not know this. But the majority of people who come to an iPad Pro are coming from a Windows PC, a desktop or a notebook. Now, of course, we all know, Windows PCs were originally conceived of before there was an internet, before there was social media, before there were app stores. And this is an amazing statistic. There are over 600 million PCs in use today that are over five years old. This is really sad. It really is. These people could really, really benefit from an iPad Pro. And when they see the features and performance and capabilities of a product like the iPad Pro designed for a modern and digital lifestyle, well, many of them will find that it's their ultimate PC replacement. Best of all, they can get access to all those incredible apps in the App Store. And we're so happy to tell you, there are now over one million apps in the App Store designed for iPad. And they work beautifully on iPad Pro. So let me tell you a lot more about this brand new iPad Pro. First, it has a pro display. It starts with the same materials used in the 12.9-inch iPad Pro, an oxide TFT display driven by a custom Apple timing controller. The custom controller has a variable refresh rate. So it runs really fast but power efficient. We use our photo alignment technology to line the individual crystals so that it has incredible contrast ratio and sharp text. But there's so much more to this display. It is 40% less reflective than an iPad Air 2. At just 1.8% reflectivity, it is the lowest reflectivity of any tablet. And if you're a pro working, you really appreciate that low reflectivity. And it's brighter too, 25% brighter than an iPad Air 2. It puts out 500 nits of light. It makes it the brightest tablet available. And there's a very wide color gamut. It uses the digital cinema's spec, DCI P3, which gives it a 25% greater color saturation than iPad Air 2. In so many ways, this is the best display we've ever built for an iPad. In addition, it supports two really breakthrough features. The first, you've heard about from Jos. It works with Night Shift. So as the sun goes down, the brightness dims a bit, the blue light wavelengths get reduced. And some people find that it makes it easier to get to sleep. But the second feature is a breakthrough that's never appeared on any device before. It's incredibly innovative. We call that a True Tone display. A True Tone display measures the color temperature of ambient light and adjusts the display to match. I heard an "oh" out there. Somebody already gets this. This is great. It has two new four-channel ambient light sensors that measure both brightness and color temperature. So how does that work? Let's start with a piece of paper. A piece of paper reflects light. So when you use it in different environments, it reflects the color temperature of the light in that environment. Our optic nerves were designed to be comfortable with this experience. If you go into the warm incandescent light of your home, the paper takes on a warm tone. But now you use a digital device. Digital devices emit light. And that light has the same color temperature no matter where it is. So the color cast isn't right. It doesn't match paper white. Well, except now if it's a True Tone display, it does. No matter where you use it, it automatically senses the color temperature of the light and becomes warmer or cooler and matches paper white and it's really natural to use. Once you use a display with this True Tone technology, you never want to go back to old technology again. It is quite a breakthrough. Next, it has a pro audio system. It's four speakers working in a stereo system to adjust automatically the frequencies between highs and lows depending on how you hold it. It also puts out twice the audio volume of an iPad Air 2. But best of all, this has an incredible level of performance unlike any other mobile device. It has our fastest chip ever, an A9X. This is a third generation 64-bit chip with over 3 billion transistors. It's made with a 3D FinFET architecture. If you don't know what that is, it is unbelievably state of the art and people are noticing. TechRadar wrote, "iPad Pro packs powerful enough hardware to be a genuine laptop replacement, with more than enough grunt in terms of processor and graphics performance." And it has a ton of grunt. Twelve cores of graphics delivering over half a teraflop of graphics power. That's more than an Xbox 360 in a device that you hold in the palm of your hands. It's incredible for gaming. It's also incredible for professional applications, modeling, rendering, just fly on the new iPad Pro. And it's absolutely enough performance for the great iOS 9 features from multitasking where you can have apps side by side and video streaming, and picture in picture. It is an incredibly powerful chip. It also, as Jos told you, includes our embedded M9 motion coprocessor. With that, apps that use our built-in sensors are instantly calibrated and up and running quickly. It also supports "Hey Siri". I said it that way because I know it also sets off people's phones when I do it. This means you can talk to your iPad and you can ask it to open your mail and check for new messages. You can talk to your iPad and ask it to go to a website or look up a contact and it can do it all automatically for you. And the iPad Pro supports a great line of pro accessories. There's a smart keyboard designed specifically for the size of that 9.7-inch Retina display. As you put your iPad on, it just automatically starts to work and the software adjusts. For example, my favorite feature, Command-Tab, I can switch between my multitasking applications just like on my desktop Mac. And it supports the greatest accessory Apple has ever made, the Pencil. This is an amazing device. It's a breakthrough and people are really falling in love with it. Christopher Phin of Creative Bloq wrote, "Let me be completely clear, this is the best digital drawing tool there has ever been." We couldn't agree more. It is an amazingly precise drawing tool. It senses pressure. There's also a tilt angle for amazing drawing. And you can draw just like you do on paper by putting your hands on the iPad because of its built-in palm rejection software. And it recognizes the pencil as well as your fingertips. So you can use both simultaneously to advance techniques for your drawings, your illustrations. People love drawing and doing illustrations on it. They also like taking notes on it. It's an incredible device. There are other pro accessories as well. A great new line of Lightning adapters, for example, a new Lightning SD card reader that's incredibly fast and this is a really powerful accessory, a USB card reader. Sure, it lets you plug in your camera which many of us do but because it's powered you can use a lot of powered USB devices. For example, you can plug in an Ethernet adapter to get on your corporate network. And for those of you who are podcasters, you're likely to plug in a microphone and do your podcast right from an iPad Pro. Customers love taking photos with their iPads as well. Certainly photos for personal use but more importantly they can use the camera for work as well. You can use the camera in augmented reality apps. You can use it to scan documents. You can use it to see constellations in the night sky. There are so many great uses for that camera. And in the new iPad Pro, we've put our most advanced camera yet. It's a 12-megapixel iSight camera with Focus Pixels, True Tone flash, that amazing image signal processor built into the A9X allows you to take pictures quickly with amazing color and low noise, huge panoramas and beautiful live photos. And you can shoot 4K video with it. So right on your iPad Pro, you shoot 4K video, you can edit multiple streams right there on the device. There's a 5-megapixel FaceTime HD camera which is wonderful for doing video conference calls. And again, the whole display is Retina Flash so you can take great selfies with you and your friends as well. There are so many new features and innovations packed into this iPad Pro. Hopefully you see what we do. This is the best upgrade ever for every iPad owner. And it is the ultimate PC replacement for all those old PCs in the world. Like everything we do, the team works hard to make it environmentally friendly, mercury-free, LED-backlit display, arsenic-free display glass, BFR-free, Beryllium-free, PVC-free and highly recyclable glass and aluminum. The iPad Pro comes in four metal finishes, silver, gold, space gray, and for the first time rose gold as well. And there are great cases and covers that you can add. They come in a variety of beautiful colors. So this is the iPad Pro. With the 9.7-inch Retina display, what will it cost? Well, we're really excited to offer a 32 gigabyte iPad Pro for just $599. That's $200 less expensive than the 12.9-inch. And we hope to reach a lot more customers with it. For 128 gigs for $749 and for the first time ever in an iOS device there's a configuration now with 256 gigabytes of storage. Orders begin this Thursday, March 24th and they also start shipping next week on the 31st. We are so excited about this iPad Pro. The team has worked so hard on it. We really love it and we've created a brief video to tell you just a little bit more about it.