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Apple Shares Two New iPad Pro Ads Focused on Apple Pencil and Augmented Reality
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What's a computer? Certainly not what young 'It's Pat' is using.
The hypocrisy is always strong in any iPad Pro discussion.
Whenever it’s compared to a laptop people always claim it’s not a real computer and list all their various reasons (the most common is that it doesn’t run a “real OS”). Invariably a Surface Pro or MBP is brought up as being far superior.
Yet when comparing the iPad Pro to a Chromebook, suddenly these excuses go out the window (mainly because they also apply to a Chromebook). And new excuses are created to explain why a Chromebook (a garbage device for anything but the most basic things) is somehow better than an iPad Pro.
It seems the only thing consistent is that people look for excuses to bash the iPad Pro no matter what it’s compared to.
Whenever it’s compared to a laptop people always claim it’s not a real computer and list all their various reasons (the most common is that it doesn’t run a “real OS”). Invariably a Surface Pro or MBP is brought up as being far superior.
Yet when comparing the iPad Pro to a Chromebook, suddenly these excuses go out the window (mainly because they also apply to a Chromebook). And new excuses are created to explain why a Chromebook (a garbage device for anything but the most basic things) is somehow better than an iPad Pro.
It seems the only thing consistent is that people look for excuses to bash the iPad Pro no matter what it’s compared to.
Yep, the iPad is a great consumption device for some people, reading and annotating pdfs is very much a consumption activity, shared to Apple TV or not.
The issue is where does that pdf come from? Of course you *can* create it on an iPad and you may well claim that's how you do it it. But creating the pdf is so much easier on "real" computer where you've got a big screen and mouse and file system full of resources, images, etc to pull into your PDF. The iPad is a minor accessory you enjoy using for your presentations, not the central part of bringing the material to your students.
Personally I prefer the logitech presenter mouse to the do the same job, it's got slideshow navigation physical buttons on the bottom of the mouse and even throws in a laser pointer. Annotating during the presentation isn't as easy to do as your way, but I prefer to have good presentation slides and actually speak to my audience rather than standing in front of them scribbling on my iPad.
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I'm not sure how you take that as hypocrisy. Yes, the Chromebook is a garbage device for anything but the most basic of tasks. And yes the Chromebook is very much better than the iPad Pro which is another garbage device for anything but even more basic tasks than the Chromebook.
There is no hypocrisy there. Chromebook is bad, iPP is worse. It's a very consistent position, which you may not agree with but it doesn't undermine the position.
Its a computer, but you can't run VMWare fusion on it... It's 'limited' to what it can do.. and based on that limitation, although it is still a computer, its underneath a Mac, which can do more stuff.
That's not saying its bad. Its convenience, but somethings you still must use a Mac. The only way to think differently to this is, u abandon these Mac-centric things altogether, which not many will do.
I tried to get use to Iphone/iPad as my primary device, (Stick the Mac away in a closet) where its not available, but i always keep going back to pull it out because of these Mac-centric things.
Nothing at all, like most Surface and the like that are laying in dumpsters.
If a similarly restless type at Apple has accorded this new chaotic "Pro"-role model - that gives some insight in their own lack of focus as of lately
You mean like the "Lack" of focus how iOS 11 has been Tuned to the iPad Pro's? Please, specifically elaborate the correlation between an iPad Pro and the restless type at Apple? Have you ever used iOS AND iPad Pro?
The iPP is the central part of bringing the material to my students. Why discount the experience of other users?
Well I was on the fence about getting one now but after this ad, urgh.. definitely wont be getting one.
That "tuning" (which essentially is diverging iPad iOS from phone iOS) shows the lack of focus when a Pro device is designed to run a phoneOS, with all the compromises that stem from supporting very different HW & use cases.
Will Pencil support, 3Dtouch, SplitScreen UX, UniversalDock, drag&drop, OLED, FaceID....etc. ever become universal/scalable technologies ?
I don't expect an answer from you, because Apple hardly knows that itself.
It is all compromises - developed and designed by people who don't take the time and the rest to sit back and consider the consequences of platform specifics versus a universal, scalable iOS.
To me, it seems architecture management done by people hopping around between a tree, a garden and an avocado bar.
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Exactly! It’s all about qualifications and being entitled to express valid points. Like In order to be movie critic you have to run a film studio. Or to write car reviews you have to be a manufacturer.
“Brrrr... it’s cold outside today!” ———— “Go and create your own frikkin’ planet!”
No, it’s hypocrisy. People flip-flopping their reasons a device is useful as long as they can bash the iPad.
Sorry, the Chromebook is far below an iPad Pro.
There is nobody flip-flopping. I'm not sure where you think you're seeing that. I don't even understand what kind of flip-flopping you think is needed to bash the iPad. Perhaps if you say something more clearly than this hyperbole.
I do see plenty of iPad bashing, all well deserved imo, but I don't see any need to change what you're claiming to bash it.
Apple is objectively great at marketing its products. They are the largest and most profitable company in the world.
There are also movies that are objectively great, so it would also be stupid to call The Shawshank Redemption a bad movie. Apple is the Shawshank Redemption.
These commercials are so annoying. She is out and about enjoying time outside but her face glued to her iPad. Disconnect for a bit kid.
Is this what you call hypocrisy? Wow....people are pretty clear around here, the iPad is not a computer, it's pretty crappy and not capable of much. The Chromebook is also a piece of junk not capable of much, but at least it has a mouse and filesystem. So crappy junk but very, very slightly better than an iPad. Where is the flip-flopping?
I don't like these adverts. They come across as arrogantly ignorent. They are selling this as an laptop replacement, which if the last 7 years have shown time and time again, they are not. "Whats a computer?", oh, tell it to your blog!
Good lord those adverts are bad however I’m not the target audience. I must say an iPad is such a wonderful device now. I’ve owned them a new one each gen since they launched. However it was only with the Pro line and the stylus that made me go all in. What a powerful setup. I do about 75% of my work on that now as it’s much more comfortable. Combined with a Bluetooth keyboard of course.
However for long writing work I much much much prefer the new 13 MB Pro. I adore that keyboard... my hands just glide over it! Only criticism would be how easy it is to press the touch bar by accident.... needs force touch on it so one can select their desired pressure. And stick one of those linear actuator vibration doohickeys for a bit of feedback. For the love of god! *ahem* but still a wondrous machine.
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However for long writing work I much much much prefer the new 13 MB Pro. I adore that keyboard... my hands just glide over it! Only criticism would be how easy it is to press the touch bar by accident.... needs force touch on it so one can select their desired pressure. And stick one of those linear actuator vibration doohickeys for a bit of feedback. For the love of god! *ahem* but still a wondrous machine.
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AR could also be so powerful. Imagine apps that combine with the pencil so one could draw over buildings, recolour and redesign them. What a smashing future this tech could provide.