Apple has a market valuation in the trillions of dollars, but that doesn’t mean the company is good at math.
Over the weekend, 9to5Mac reported something that felt a little fishy at the start. Apple’s website was altered to claim that the new M2 iPad Air only had 9 cores in its GPU, rather than the 10 Apple had been advertising. In a follow-up report, Apple confirmed to 9to5Mac that it wasn’t a case of false advertising — it was just a typo.
“We are updating Apple.com to correct the core count for the M2 iPad Air,” Apple said. “All performance claims for the M2 iPad Air are accurate and based on a 9-core GPU.”
Some owners of the new iPad Air may be thinking, “Oh no! Is this device not as good as I originally thought?” The good news is this isn’t the case. According to Apple’s statement to 9to5Mac on the matter, all of the advertised performance benchmarks (such as the claim that the device is 50 percent faster than a previous model) were based on testing a 9-core GPU, so they should still be accurate.
So, in short, basically nothing happened other than a website was updated to reflect a minor error. But at least the story is kind of funny.
