New iPad released one month after purchase!!

If you are really saying that you want the larger 10.5 inch screen iPad Pro model, then your only option is to sell your 9.7 inch screen iPad Pro, yourself and use the monetary proceeds toward the new 10.5 inch screen iPad Pro.

No one knew what Apple was going to introduce at WWDC2017.

With technology, new stuff is always only a year or less away.

There is no real reason why you should be unhappy with your purchase.

You got want you wanted that was currently available.

don6988 wrote:

Look forward to some favourable responses...

I'm not sure what you would consider to be a "favourable response," because ASC is just populated by a bunch of users just like you.

You could go to an Apple Store and plead your case with the staff, or just sell your previous purchase and get the new one.

Why would it be obsolete?

It can still run the current software, it will continue to receive updates for the foreseeable future, and will in fact be able to update to iOS 11 in the near future. How is that obsolete in any way shape or form?

So unless you really think that there being a new model somehow affects the functionality of yours, I don't see how a new release is an issue.

There will always be a newer model coming out. Regardless of when you buy it/

With that said, Apple has a 14 day return period no questions asked. After that you can sell your iPad and use the money towards a new one. Or attempt to plead your case at an Apple Store and see what they say. There is no real loophole other than asking nicely and hoping the employees at the store are nice enough to accept the return.

I don't know why you think your 9.7 inch iPad Pro will stop working?

It won't!!

And it is NOT obsolete!!!

As a matter of fact, your 9.7 inch iPad Pro will be plenty eligible to upgrade to iOS 11 in the Fall of 2017 where it will get a huge amount of new features!

iPads do not just stop working because Apple isn't making a certain iPad model any longer!

That is just ridiculous thinking!

Your 9.7 inch iPad will always work and continue to be supported and continue to receive both iOS and App updates for, at least, another 4 years, or so.

Your 9.7 inch screen iPad Pro is just fine!

sorry this is no DIRECT help

BUT in the future there are the two main dates apple Refreshes(or totally updates) its products every year

The are MID Year, June July (month 06 - 07)

and end of year September October (month 09-10)

So keep in mind that around these dates refrain from buying new apple products and wait and see what they have in Store

remember if for some reason your product does not work how it should you shold be eligible for a refund

and plan B is just straight up going into a store and seeing what they can do for you

Sorry i couldn't be as helpful as you need

Distanzia wrote:

BUT in the future there are the two main dates apple Refreshes(or totally updates) its products every year

The are MID Year, June July (month 06 - 07)

and end of year September October (month 09-10)

Just because that's when Apple has released things in the past at those times of year does not mean that's when they will release things in the future.

whats the harm in waiting around those dates? and as well since they have a whole marketing department that has strategically chosen these dates from statistics and have followed them for a long while (since the 1st iphone, june 2007)

i cant see why they would change , but who knows what the future holds , they might change Xmas to February

It's certainly important to take past behavior into consideration. But the harm lies in implying these are somehow fixed dates. Apple has released devices at different times on occasion and may well do so in the future. Leading people to think that there is a fixed schedule may end up causing disappointment.

don6988 wrote:

Does Apple have any loophole where I can trade in my "now old" iPad Pro for the new one? It is already past the 14 day refund policy period..!

No such thing but you can always sell your iPad and buy a new one.

Apple has a 14 day unconditional return policy and after that you cannot return or exchange it.

Every tech company is constantly bringing out new hardware, be it laptops, desktops, monitors, tablets, cell phones, smart watches, etc. They are not obligated to tell you when buying what may be coming out or when (and the store staff would not know anyway). If you were still within the sellers return period you could swap it. Otherwise, you made your purchase decision as you chose to.

What if you'd bought it 5 weeks before a new release? Or two months, or 16 days? At what point would you be "satisfied" that the time difference was acceptable?

While it may no longer be produced, it is by no means not used, nor is it out of date nor outdated.

So what exactly is so bad about it not being made anymore?