Yeah I soon as I saw the price, this article fell apart completely.

The Neo has a great screen and an older iPhone processor. You can take the keyboard off a Neo add a touch screen but you still have to make a device that fits the battery and has all the same technology. You're back to at least a $600 tablet.

I’m confused as well. Did the author not consider the existing product line? iPads are not that expensive for the base model especially during the holidays.

I think the idea not explicitly said is it’d be MacOS not iOS.

They should rename it the iPad Neo so we don't refer to as "the just iPad" or plain ipad.