Exactly how does PC replacement mean laptop? PC is the generic term for computer. It refers to neither a desktop nor a laptop. Never has laptop ever been mentioned in any iPad commercial. Windows is the competition, so of course they want to get people to switch but that doesn’t mean they’re going to replicate the Windows laptop experience. “What is a computer” means exactly what it says. It means they want you to choose it for your computer. They didn’t say they wanted you to choose it for your laptop. Again computer does not equal laptop.
They consider the iPad a computer, and enforce as rigidly as possible the touch-first aspect of it. Craig Federighi even said that Apple engineers put macOS on an iPad and found the experience to be terrible, which is why they will never allow macOS on an iPad. Considering iPadOS and macOS are the same OS, only with different libraries, it probably took them five minutes to port it. If they ever intended to, they would have done it years ago. But they consider macOS to be touch hostile. Even when they put desktop-like features in their OS, they always make it touch first and do it differently than a desktop does it. I don’t understand how people still don’t realize Apple will never make it a laptop replacement because they consider it a terrible idea.
They could replicate Microsoft’s mistakes with the Surface Pro, but they aren’t that dumb. Microsoft has been trying for over a decade to create a hybrid and have failed miserably every time because a hybrid always means crippling compromises with battery life, power, and usability. Surface Pros are mediocre laptops and horrendous tablets. I had a Surface Pro, the worst purchase I’d ever made. I gave it to my son for taking notes in college, but he ditched it for an iPad.
