{"id":1192,"date":"2024-06-19T14:06:42","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T14:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2025-04-28T11:27:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T11:27:52","slug":"thin-and-light-is-back-in-style-and-apples-m4-ipad-pro-is-proof-it-can-be-done-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/2024\/06\/19\/thin-and-light-is-back-in-style-and-apples-m4-ipad-pro-is-proof-it-can-be-done-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Thin and light is back in style, and Apple\u2019s M4 iPad Pro is proof it can be done right"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ipad-pro-thinness.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>Not too long ago, Apple was on a mission to make all of its devices thinner and lighter. This ambition resulted in <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2014\/09\/30\/bendgate\/\">iPhones that bent<\/a>, and MacBook Pros that removed pro ports and had a <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2023\/01\/09\/macbook-keyboard-lawsuit-settlement-eligible\/\">terrible keyboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the past few years, Apple has shifted gears, prioritizing battery life, ports, and other important features over thinness. But the tides are set to turn again.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/06\/16\/new-iphone-macbook-pro-apple-watch-thinner-design\/\">new report<\/a>, Apple\u2019s thinning agenda is back and it\u2019s coming for the iPhone, MacBook Pro, and Apple Watch soon. But the recent iPad Pro shows that Apple may just succeed this time around.<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"apple-watch,ipad-pro,iphone-17,macbook-pro\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"954796\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/06\/19\/thin-and-light-is-back-in-style-and-apples-m4-ipad-pro-is-proof-it-can-be-done-right\/#more-954796\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not too long ago, Apple was on a mission to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipad-pro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}