Exactly, iPads are fake news. They're just there to sell more stuff. Almost nobody actually gets an iPad without also getting a PC to do the stuff it can't do very well. Every improvement they make to the iPad just brings it closer to being a PC.
Possibly the least insightful comment of the thread. They are amazing devices. I gave up my MacBook Pro and use my iPad as my primary portable device.
Can you provide a source that backs this statement? I know many people who moved from laptops to iPads and are very happy with them.
Not really.
I see reaching up to the screen from the keyboard as the hard way lol. I’ve never thought of trackpad gestures as hard or finger gymnastics. I mean, they’re the exact same gestures as those on touch screen but on the trackpad 😳.
iPad OS was exactly that, more PC features for the iPad. Previous iOS updates were also that to a lesser extent. The MS Surface already proved that you can have a tablet and laptop in one, and though I'd never touch Windows with a 10' pole, I'll admit they've done well there. iPad sales were highest when the iPad was first introduced, and a downward trend followed, suggesting they were all hype. (There was a recent uptick in sales, but that was amid tech companies broadly selling more products due to covid19.)
I have both, I dunno how wide your thighs are but at the last Microsoft Ignite(formerly TechEd) all the MS fans sat in the front row with their new Surface pros... every 10 mins you hear a Surface slip off their lap and smack onto the floor lol
Is a Ryzen 5000U version forthcoming or just your wish list? I'm impressed by the link you sent me, and it sure does look pretty darn cool - thnaks!
Shortly after Christmas, I showed off my iPhone 12 Pro Max; when messages locked up, and the phone keypad screen froze. My friends and family asked me how much that thing cost. Yeah, I felt kind of stupid. I just finished installing 14.4, and things seem to be working better. So, things can go either way with our fancy technology.
You mean what "some" gamers want. You need to admit that there are segments in a market, and that's true for gaming as well. Flappy Bird (50M) and Candy Crush (2.7B) outsold by a huge margin even the mighty World of Warcraft (14M), which shows that gaming is a relative term, and frankly in the long run as a game developer, I'd rather be in the segment that sells 50 million or 2.7 billion copies than 14 million. When you look at it like that, "serious gaming" is a pretty small segment.
I think they have been waiting to disconnect themselves from x86 before they attempt to shore up bigger game developer interest in the Apple ecosystem, which I am sure there will be a lot of considering the performance of the M1 devices so far and the cross platform compatibility with iPad and iPhone - it has the potential to be a very lucrative platform to develop for, and offer some very unique gaming experience possibilities that will just not possible in the fragmented PC market.
First, by ”not interested in gaming” you mean ”not interested in pushing hard at the moment on hard core PC gamer games”? If so, you are correct that Apple Arcade does not yet target that market. Not sure why you think that Apple Silicon shows that though. We will have to see what Apple’s higher end GPU story is, but I fully expect their next generation of Apple Silicon products to beat any of the competition in CPU performance. This gives them the option to release an AppleTV targeted at console gamers that would allow the Switch-like ability to play in the family room on the big screen, seamlessly move to mobile on an iPad and finally end up on an iMac in one’s bedroom.
Not sure why you think that Apple invented in app purchase. FarmVille and other Free-to-play games did it on Facebook well before they did it on iOS.
I think they have not yet decided if they want to pursue a hard core gaming strategy, but I do agree that it made no sense for them to do so when they had no way of differentiating from less expensive PC hardware. Their unified platform gives them the opportunity to offer developers a seamless path from the console to mobile and desktop, with games that can move among these platforms.
