- a keyboard and trackpad worse than any of the macbooks
- slowly creeping to the same size/ thickness/ weight
- no structural rigidity
- an incredibly limited OS compared to macOS (no default apps, childish file-manager and overall functions)
- an incredibly CLOSED OS. Don't have the money to pay month after month for a calendar app that you previously used to own and pay only when the upgrade was worth it? Tough luck! Apple wants developers to move to a subscription model and you have to pay for it.
- an increasingly CLOSED device with close to ZERO repair possibility.
- a device that degrades from HW and SW perspective faster than what used to be called laptops/ workhorses
- being in need to exchange it like socks; don't worry though you can pay rent for it, as you never owned it even when you bought it. Tough luck if you can't afford to pay rent for a "WORKHORSE" in times like these.
Oh, and whatever happened to "we think Surface is dumb and people don't want to move the hand from trackpad and keyboard to a touchscreen, that is why we are not retooling macOS"?
I know they say don’t feed the trolls, but....
The Magic Keyboard appears to be the same mechanism from the 16” MBP And new Air.
The iPad Pro has more than enough structural rigidity.
There are an awful lot of people who are able to use their iPad as their primary machine now. Just because it doesn’t work for you...
Genuinely no idea what the next point is on about.
Zero repair possibility? You’ve seen what‘s happened to MacBooks over the last 4 years right?
Device “degrading” - the iPad seems to have an incredibly long useful life going by posts on here and the amount of hand-me-down devices i see in use, particularly amongst families.
As to the last point, I don’t think people ever said the Surface was dumb. Microsoft have done some really smart & interesting things with the line, but having a desktop OS at the centre of a touch-centric device just doesn’t work. If you’ve used one, it makes perfect sense as to why Apple isn’t adding touch to macOS.
.... and breathe.