I appreciate that Roon were part of Meridain, who are notorious for being very guarded about release plans.
Are you able to give us at least an indication of planned release date for the iOS app?
Just so you’re aware, this is an absolute pre-requisite before I’ll be able to sign up as I very much need to keep “she who must be obeyed” happy.
Speaking as an iOS developer, knowing that the Roon app will be Open GL based I would avoid the iPad 3 as that was the first retinal iPad and suffered from some serious graphics performance issues - basically the same (or very similar) GPU as the iPad 2 but 4x the number of pixels to push.
I would expect (But have no details) that their app will be iOS 8.1 (Or possibly iOS 9 - was are very close to WWDC when the new OS is bound to be announced) so I would recommend an iPad Air or iPad Mini 2 (You ca ignore the iPad Mini 1 as it is an A5 ARM processor (The original iPad Mini is basically a shrunk iPad 2))
The iPad Mini 3 is no faster than the iPad Mini 2.
The Air 2 is faster than the Air 1 (& iPad Mini’s) but the original Air is no slouch.
As the Mini 2 is still current you can bet your bottom dollar iOS 9 will be supported & will run well.
PS: If you are ONLY planing on running Roon then don’t worry about storage space (16Gb etc) but if you plan to use for other purposes the 64Gb is a realistic minimum.
It’s June. I’m now officially a paying (full price) customer now and wondering about the ios app. Which, if I remember correctly, will be part of my subscription. Or will that subscription be different?
+1 +2 wife +3 son for iPad app as soon as roonly possible. The normal rule of app development is iOS first, to get the early adopters and those who are prepared to pay for software (-:
I use my iPads for most of my music control now whether it is Sonos, Apple TV, old Escient Fireball and 2 audio systems so can’t wait for new IOS app to appear. I would have thought the same that IOS would come before Android but maybe it’s tougher to port correctly to IOS. Hoping for some good news on this soon now that I’m an annual subscriber. So far I’ve had no issues with Roon on my Macs but my Macbook Air is still a bit large for remote control.