An iPad Pro could easily be made with the same thermal headroom as a MacBook Air. It's almost the same device now.
Almost the same device? Really? Can I ask where your engineering product design degree is from because I suspect your average 4 year old Sesame Street watcher could get this game right... "One of These Things (Is Not Like the Others)"
not meaning to pick on you, sad thing is many people also handwaving in this thread would say the same thing.. because in their minds, same CPU, same machine. Just. Not. True.
But my particular point was thermal headroom. Let's start with on a MacBook the screen is literally separate from the rest of the computer. It's a giant thermal sail radiating heat on its own.
and even the lowly 13" MacBook Air weighs a hefty 2.7 lbs compared to the 13" Airpad Air at half the weight, 1.36 lbs. Mass is a critical component of thermal dissipation. This is a HUGE difference. There are many other factors and I dont claim to be the expert, but the experts know that thermally these two devices are nothing alike. People will wave their hands, but apparently they forgot what happens when the Intel Macs built up heat...
Yeah, nothing alike.
An iPad Pro is a terrible user experience for actual professional work. I've tried to make it work, I really have, it's just not a Pro device. The window management is terrible, and more importantly you can't reliably switch between pro apps without one of them closing. That alone disqualifies it from being Pro.
BTW, I said zippo about the iPad Pro in my message or user experience, so thanks for you opinion, but maybe someone else would have benefited more. My point is that people who smugly claim apple manipulates the devices to increase sales (as the only reason) are just wrong.
But since you brought it up, you are the definition of a Professional? You related to the MIT student Oliver Smoot perhaps? They used his height as a unit of measure, the Smoot, to measure the The Harvard Bridge (364.4 Smoots long, plus one ear.). Point is just because it didnt fit your nice of professional work (which is btw? dont you think that is critical in this analysis?), you dont get to say it doesnt work for other. shrugs.
How many mazz0 professional units is a MBA? a MacBook Pro? Is the Ultra Studio like 21 plus one gpu mazz0's?
If they want to admit that an iPad isn't a Pro device and never will be, and that you need a computer too, then fine, they can stop pretending, stop calling it Pro, stop suggesting someone with an iPad doesn't need a "computer". If they do want it to be Pro, then it needs to have those features (and ideally, for me, a full terminal experience too, though that's more specific to certain industries and not a general purpose pro requirement). And once it has those features, it's basically MacOS. I think that's the main point - it's not how you get there, nobody *really* cares which OS it has on it, just that it works like that.
again with the iPad Pro... this time you want to debate marketing terms?! Sorry, not interested. Could care less what Apple names its devices (as long as I can say it in polite company which regrettably excludes your typical MR hater), but if you want to claim ownership on what a 'pro' name is... let Apple know. Me, I read 'pro' and I dont think that I have to use a device at work, I think, 'more features and more expensive.'
It's an iPad. Thats what it is. For some people it does fill all their needs. For some it does not. Me, I am glad to have a choice in devices.
As for "they're not afraid of cannibalising their own stuff", I agree the iPhone precedent is a strong argument, and I can't say for sure what's different this time, but clearly something is. Could be Jobs vs Cook; could be that they didn't feel they could sell iPhones without cannibalising iPods whereas they do feel they can with iPads and Macs; could be the different competition; could be lots of things. Of course we're really all guessing when make assertions about their motives, all we can safely say is that their excuses don't hold water.
No, those that want to believe in Santa Clause and the Fairy god mother can smugly, I mean safely, declare all they want. Truth is none of us know what motivates Apple in their decisions, yes they are a for profit endeavor, but their road to gold has been about good engineering and design. They dont sell out for profit alone. They wouldn't stay in business if they did.
But okay hey, since you actually do seem to put some thought in to this...just what is the insistence to turn an iPad into a Mac? is it economic? what? I get people like to ridicule the spork analogy, and there are some very very few niche cases for very very few people where a spork IS the right choice, but 99.99% of us could buy sporks, but prefer to eat with a separate fork and spoon. Why is that? Could it be that sometimes there is a right tool for the right job?
People want something for nothing and clicks for free, life doesnt work that way for most things.
