There are a lot of Android phones on Amazon right now that cost more than this iPad. That is not a sentence that has historically been possible to write, and yet here we are. The Apple iPad 11-inch with A16 chip just hit a record low, down to $299, off its $349 standard price and the lowest this tablet has ever been sold for anywhere, with an 11-inch Liquid Retina display, 128GB storage, Wi-Fi 6, 12MP front and back cameras, Touch ID, and all-day battery life. No Prime membership required, and Apple’s official store is at $349.
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An A16 chip in a tablet that now costs less than some phones that can’t match it
The A16 chip in the iPad 11-inch is the same generation Apple put in the iPhone 14 Pro, which was the fastest mobile chip available when it launched. In a tablet at $299, it sits alongside no-name Android tablets and phones at similar price points that use processors from manufacturers most people haven’t heard of, running Android builds that receive irregular updates, with app libraries that don’t include the million-plus apps designed specifically for iPad. The comparison is not close on any metric that matters for actual daily use, and the price is now the same conversation.
