Historically, Apple has been both fond of and great at working with plastic cases. Go for it.
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Apple Scrapped Plans to Launch Low-Cost iPad With Plastic Design and Keyboard
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I agree. My tattoo artist and his buddies at the shop all use an iPad with an Apple Pencil. My employer, a large semiconductor supplier, uses iPads for inventory and safety audits.
Yes, except they should then use the A15 instead of the A14 that is already more than two years old at this point.
You can get an iPad for $309 in the education store right now, that sounds pretty low-cost for an Apple tablet to me.
Oh come on… you know you miss that little bugger now.
Ain’t no device now have such comfortable curves.
Only because apple crippled iPadOS. It is even missing a way to sideload applications.
While this is true, most barely use half of this 64gb.
That's intentional, go buy an Android tablet if you want to install some crap apps.
The EU will thankfully break open that ugly rusty garden of Apple.
Finally I can use a torrent application or open source software that shows me BOOBS and nipples.
Your take is all wrong because you’re a viewing this as an either or proposition without considering that many people own two or more of these products and use them for varying use cases. There’s a great deal of overlap in what these different devices can do, but each device excels in specific scenarios over the others.
Just because you made a poor purchase decision in buying an iPad you have no use for doesn’t automatically mean the iPad is useless for everyone else. If you have no use for your iPad Pro, you should sell it ASAP before it depreciates in value any further.
Apple‘s failure to sell to the educational market is due to a lot more than just their pricing. Google put a lot of effort into building collaborative and administrative tools for chrome books that the education market needs. Apple made a minimal effort in this area.
I think you’re confusing an iPad with an Amazon Kindle... or with a cheap no-name tablet that has terrible performance and a low price subsidized by surveillance capitalism.
I use my iPad Pro everyday, as a Product Designer I still use a laptop (90% of the time hooked to external display and peripherals so it could almost be a desktop, but I don't want an additional machine for when I need to travel for work) but it's mostly for Figma, all the tasks I can do with the iPad I prefer to do them there, calls, research, reading for work, writing documents etc.
Judging by the number of recurring posts on Reddit from people with 64 GB devices asking for help managing their limited storage, I’m skeptical about the term “most“. This also applies to acquaintances who’ve come to me complaining about issues on their iPhone or iPad that boiled down to “you don’t have enough storage“.
On a 64 GB device, the operating system, system files, and applications will use up a huge chunk of your storage space before even considering your data. Even if you use cloud storage, some of that data must still be stored locally. Also, computers—iPhones and iPads included—need lots of empty storage and memory space to function optimally. When you buy a 64 GB device, you don’t have anywhere near 64 GB of available space for your apps and data if you want that device to run properly.
Can “some“ people get by with a 64 GB device? Sure! But I don’t think that demographic constitutes “most“ Apple customers in 2022.
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Middle school now makes everyone use the same crappy Chromebook. It’s not so much that they aren’t great, it’s now no one can do iMessage. Can’t use your phones anymore too. I guess it’s good from an education and policy point of view but it’s at the expense of tech education and the modern ways of doing things. Middle school, fine, but this is the same practice in our high schools.
‘Most’ people are people that don’t know what reddit is.
My company develops B2B iPad solutions. One of our clients is a medium-sized real estate firm. They deployed a custom iPad app to their staff. The staff considers the iPad the most powerful computer they’ve ever used because it significantly improves their professional workflow. In the field, they can upload real estate property pictures, edit the inventory database, prepare and sign documents, conduct video tours and conferences using the front and rear cameras simultaneously (and watch ESPN while waiting for clients! Shhh!) We are implementing AR functionality so that they can do virtual staging based on the potential buyers' style or corporate branding theme. We can also use LiDAR for automatic floor plan updates and measurements.
The tablet form factor and iPadOS are not a limiting computing environment for them; quite the opposite. They can do more on the platform than the previous Windows setup with laptops. Similarly, we’ve developed iPad apps for medical offices and corporate-meetings production companies that see higher productivity and significantly reduced IT maintenance costs after deploying iPads for some of their staff.
Again, these firms don’t consider the iPad a better computing device than traditional laptops. I think that many people on online forums may not need a tablet for their computing needs and don't seem to consider the wide range of uses for the iPad as a computing platform.
Just my *very informed) 2¢!
It's hard to imagine Apple competing in schools, or even wanting to. You can't tell an entire school district that they suddenly need to buy thousands of adapters because you have arbitrarily removed a port. That treatment is reserved for those of us who have time and money on our hands.
I agree the headphone jack is critical in education as students use headphones constantly. I have a friend who's kid is in an iPad school district and I'm not sure what they'll do next time they need to refresh. If Apple thinks kids always remember to charge their devices before school, I have some bad news... Dongles aren't good for students.