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Apple Poised to Become World's Top-Selling PC Vendor with Tablets Included
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And few people do them, outside of tech forums.
But you could say the same of laptops: many complex things cannot be done on a slow, tiny Linux netbook. Is it not a PC, then?
Many complex things can be done on an IBM mainframe computer that can't be done on a typical desktop PC.
Since when can you use an iPad as a development workstation?
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That's why it's a mainframe and a PC is not.
It's not a workstation, but most PC stuff can be done, albeit slowly.
On the iPad there are many essential things that you just can't.
So, if you need significantly more power than a PC can provide, an iPad makes perfect sense.
Yes. So?
Many complex things can be done on a PC made in 2011 which couldn't be done on a PC made in 1990. Does that mean the PC made in 1990 is not a PC? This is clearly an argument with no logical conclusion.
We define something by what we do with it. It's basic logic.
All homes are things we live in.
I live in my flat.
My flat is a home.
So...
All PCs are machines used for personal computing tasks.
The iPad is a machine used for personal computing tasks.
Therefore the iPad is a PC.
The argument is only about what a personal computing task is and, frankly, that's just clutching at straws. An iPad is used for the vast majority of the same things any other form of PC is used for.
When employees could use them to play minesweeper or solitaire when the office network was down, same as they can do with iPads now.
In fact, with a 3G iPad, they can do their farming on Facebook even if the office net has crashed.
if you brought an iPad back to the 1980s Mac users, would they have considered it a computer? i think Yes, since it does more than they did. if so, then why would it not be a computer today? does not compute.
So a 2011 game console is a PC because it can run heavier games than an eighties PC?
can you hook up an external monitor, keyboard and perform common computing tasks such as word processing, spreadsheets, image editing, email, scheduling, web browsing, and running any number of applications? yes, yes, and yes.
I know I will be flame for this but I think its time for some other tech company to come up with new OS and hardware configuration like Apple did years ago. Apple loosing grip with all inventions; there is so many glitches, problems which I have never seen before. The same with hardware; my iMac's seen Apple store guru many times as the same for MBA and iPhone. The quality is still there but its degrading year by year.
Honestly I will be very happy to see some competition at this level. I just feel the need to swap over but there is nothing out there at this moment.
Just my $0.02
Honestly I will be very happy to see some competition at this level. I just feel the need to swap over but there is nothing out there at this moment.
Just my $0.02
What code a Developer can port and run on an iPad and what Apple allows in its App store are two completely different things.
(I enrolled as an iOS Developer, so there's lots of stuff on my iPad that's not on yours.
What code a Developer can port and run on an iPad and what Apple allows in its App store are two completely different things.
(I enrolled as an iOS Developer, so there's lots of stuff on my iPad that's not on yours.
Can you develop Java and .NET? You can do that on PCs.
You? Maybe not.
Me? Been there. Done that.
And there are already several VMs in the App store.
