Can't speak for other "grumpy" people, but it appears to me that Apple's push of the iPad as a laptop replacement is concurrent with its design of the newer Mac laptops having fewer ports, faulty keyboards, throttling issues, and overall decreasing functionality. Add to that Apple's refusal to incorporate true touch screens into their laptop lines, and yes, the iPad can mostly replace such laptops. It is why, at least until the latest iteration with no headphone jack and bending problems, I have bought 3 generations of iPads, but have left Apple laptops in favor of PC laptops running Linux, incorporating touch screens, plentiful ports, nice keyboards, and overall up-to-date spec's.
As I keep saying - you just don’t like their products and their direction. It’s fine. Some people do. I love the ports on my MBP. I don’t think its functionality decreased. I don’t really want touch screens on my laptop.
You do? Well, you did the right choice - for you, a really great Mac replacement is “a touchscreen PC laptop running Linux”. For me? I can’t do my work on a Linux laptop. The software I need isn’t there, for one thing.
So, again, iPad is not a laptop replacement for everyone. For those that need a laptop - there are, you know, laptops. So, I have to ask for the nth time: what, exactly, is the problem? Show me the ad where Apple is claiming iPad does Linux-related tasks better than a laptop running Linux?
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I am agreeing mostly, but you seem to ignore that that "selection" of things you can "also" do with an iPad (implying the computer still is the reference) doesn't warrant its price nor it's Pro-label.
It's just the lower hanging fruit and cheapest way for Apple to add 2000 grand to their balances.
Whether they market an expensive hammer as a Ferrari or the other way around - I don't know.
They'd probably do both at the same time if that would suit their purpose.
And either way, it remains customer deceit by labeling something Pro that's merely sometimes- or semi-Pro.
Ah, but that’s a different question: does it warrant the price and the Pro label.
The “Pro” part is easy: it doesn’t mean anything. As I said - a PS4 can be “Pro”. And a Surface
Pro is actually less powerful (and by your account) less
pro than a Surface Book. Pro is just a marketing term and usually it means “premium” more than anything. If you don’t like this word used in such a way, I get it, but that’s an industry-wide thing.
As for the price - well, that is so relative. Like beauty, value is in the eye of the beholder. For me, iPad Pro is worth every cent and, no, a regular computer can’t do the things I need it to do well. For someone else - it’s a total overkill. For a professional - the price comes down to a simple question: “does this tool help me make money” - and the answer there is “depends on what you do”. For others it may come down to “how much premium are you willing to go?”. We don’t go crazy when people spend $1000 on a phone (well, some here do) even though you can get most of the features on a $250 phone as well.
At the end of the day, all you have to do is say: “nah, this is not for me”. And yet, some people have this need to prove it’s not for anyone else, either. And that’s what I’m disagreeing with.
