I wonder how more years of the iPad underperforming Apples original projections until they stop pushing them so hard. They still seem to think there just <--> THIS close to exploding.
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I wonder how more years of the iPad underperforming Apples original projections until they stop pushing them so hard. They still seem to think there just <--> THIS close to exploding.
Are you serious? How many times has the old dude diving commercial been played? I almost never see a Microsoft commercial LOL
Hey remember all the way back to four months ago when Apple did this?
https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/macbook-pro/
People respond to more than just numbers. Raw horsepower and the user interface speed are different. The iPad pros are powerful, but even if the processor is not as "great" as my work PC, it feels tons faster. Light years faster. Snappy even.
The other two points just sound like you are trying too hard to complain. The price is never on ad.
I have to hand it to them , they saved up all 4 positive ipad tweets they got over the years and made four commercials out of them, kudos Apl.
Even in this post-facts world we're living in, this is a stretch. Have you ever looked further than the end of your nose?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/brianso...high-as-it-reveals-new-tv-shows/#64079e12b802
Really? Skype can not do it. Hangout can not do it? What purpose - simply to show what I am working on. For example if I'm working in Photoshop with another designer and simply want to share it to work live with each other. I will kiss your feet if you have a solution but I'm pretty certain Apple has restricted this.
So geekbench scores at roughly 60% of the 6700K in single core and about a third in multicore are meaningless? That's a high end desktop processor by the way. And this is in a light portable device that will go for 10 hours on battery rather than a tower that will double as a space heater in your office. Some hypothetical world in which MacOS is placed on an iPad Pro is meaningless, for every day general computing the iPad Pro is very fast and will beat most laptops in use today.
And please, define "actual operating system" for us, your definition seems to be contrary to the industry.
Do you know what their projections are? I don't recall ever seeing that.
Still, even with the growth still declining, they could easily settle in at a number that outsells the Mac by 2:1.
I don't think they get refreshed until the fall. Hard to imagine a new design coming first to the iPad and not iPhone.
Utlimately, the same users who can likely get by fine with a chromebook, can get by fine with an iPad Pro.
The problem is, when presented with $300 for a chromebook, or $900 for an iPad pro, if they can ultimately offer the same basic functionality, what is compelling about the ipad pro?
(This is software wise, not hardware, the iPad Pro hardware is fantastic, and the newest A series CPU's are more than enough for this sort of day to day activity). The problem is iOS. end of story. iOS is too walled for a "laptop replacement".
where's the full lightroom? where's the full word? where's the full desktop versions of software that can leverage the great CPU that Apple invented?
for the basic things? yeah, there's no real issues here. Heck, I use my iPad Air currently more than I use a laptop. it's lighter, and for sitting and the simple browsing and emailing, it's fine.
But as soon as I need to actually get work done, iOS is a restrictive mess that forces me to RDP into a real OS (either MacOS, Linux or Windows) to get anything more advanced done. all software limitations. Not hardware
THIS. Some people love their iPads, flaws and all. Whenever I have to jump to macOS, my blood pressure goes up.
Yeah, there's a disconnect between the profits / stock price and what the recent offerings are.
Not that the consumer/market signals are necessarily wrong, but sometimes they lag. Remember: Microsoft was earning crazy profits in 1995.
standard mr comments these days
-watch bands
-Tim cook is the devil
-where are the macs
-Apple is doomed