Retailers are selling the Apple iPad at a significant discount right now. Here's why you should buy one

If you are looking for an iPad, you may have reached the best time in a long time to get one.

In recent days, retailers have lowered their prices on Apple's iPad. The 32GB iPad with Wi-Fi is on sale for $ 249 at Amazon right now. It usually costs $ 329. And if you want to adapt your iPad to the iPad Pro, you can get the 12.9-inch version with 64GB of storage and cellular connectivity for $ 999 – a saving of $ 150 on its usual retail price of 1 $ 149.

Likewise, Best Buy and other retailers charge similar prices on Apple's tablet.

But a cheap price is not the only reason to buy an iPad. The fact is that Apple's iPads have lost favor in recent years, largely because people are keeping them longer. In response, retailers, in the hope of getting rid of iPad faster, have turned to sales to empty their tablets.

The real reason to buy the iPad now has very little to do with its price and much more to do with WWDC 2019.

This week, during the Apple speech, the company unveiled iPadOS, a new version of its iOS operating system that takes full advantage of the screen of the iPad.

The problem with the iPad in recent years is that the same iOS version that you find on your iPhone is also used on the iPad. So, in many ways, the operating system fails to take full advantage of the iPad's screen.

With iPadOS, Apple corrects that. The software comes with a new, larger home screen for simultaneously viewing application icons and widgets. Add to that the ability to use the iPad as a second screen with the Mac and the option to display the Web in a desktop version of a site instead of the version mobile and the iPad is suddenly a lot more attractive.

Finally, the iPad truly replaces a laptop and not just a tablet.

So, perhaps this, combined with the more affordable pricing, is something that you should consider if you are looking for a new way to be productive.

Apple's iPads are generally powerful devices with solid designs, and starting this fall, with the launch of iPadOS, they will offer much better software features. Add to that a more affordable price, thanks to discounts given to retailers, and the time may have come to buy an iPad.