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Tim Cook Insists Merging Mac and iPad Would Result in Compromises

"We don't believe in sort of watering down one for the other," said Cook

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Open a Mac from 10 years ago, back when it allowed you to DO things.

For all his faults at least Tim has a sense of humour.
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ThisIsNotMe said:
Maybe Tim Cook should be focused on important things like the hundreds of thousands of users currently being impacted by Apple's removal of DisplayLink compatibility. Doesn't see like Apple/Tim Cook is too concerned with 'compromise' when business users have their workflows blown up for no reason.
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Tim's "important things" begin and end with the balance sheet.

Which is super-healthy, so why worry?
 
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So, should a near 1 trillion dollar company be compromised on the cost and effort to innovate, or should a consumer be compromised to have to carry around two different products they are required to pick and choose to suit their needs?

Tim Cook is only trying to save face after his initial fridge/toaster comments and shortsighted obtuse dismissal of Microsoft's Surface product, now Apple is doing everything it possible can to dupe their customers that merging the two does not make sense even though customers are increasingly demanding some kind of better integration of the two platforms.

What Tim Cook is saying is that Apple CAN'T innovate without watering down their offerings, which is a sad statement for a CEO to make. What Tim Cook should say is Apple is investing effort into finding the best way to move forward to leverage the quality of both platforms into a solution customer actually want, instead of constantly telling us what Apple is unwilling, or more likely CAN'T, do.

Also is iPad Pro, in docked keyboard "desktop" mode the best UX that Apple can offer? Apple claims that touch on a laptop is a bad experience, and then tries to convince customers into believing that they should live in a "post PC era" and use iPad Pro to handle all their professional needs, and then offers a completely horrible desktop experience. I mean even adding mouse/trackpad support in iOS would be a huge leap forward for "professionals" that opt to use iPad Pro.

We have already seen examples of a hybrid system, one where you can support cursor on a tablet UI, and touch on a desktop UI. Apple unable to even match competitive platforms that can provide both features should cause a lot of investors to start to wonder about the leadership and direction of this company.

Personally, in spite of what your personal opinions is about all this, having a CEO constantly say he can't or won't do something is getting tiresome, and a bit worrisome, because instead of Apple fighting to keep things the same they should be working hard to create a new paradigm customers will actually want for the future, and having a bag full of equipment is not a future most people want.
 
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This is a horrible idea. A laptop is not a tablet and vice versa. I know that Cook was really a huge promoter of the iPad as a workplace replacement for the laptop, but it isn't even close in my opinion. I would probably buy an MS laptop (shudder) and flood it with anti-virus and whatever else security measures I could before letting the iPad take its place.

Methinks this is just nonsense questions that journalists already know the answer to. Just article fodder, really.
 
Its all about profits and selling you more. But, based on what I have seen on the Windows side, it really doesn't provide any advantage merging Tablet and Desktop. I never use my Surface Pro as a tablet.

I have a MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and iPhone; even an Apple Watch and actually use each of them in their own respective way. But this is Apple's strategy, to sell you more. My way to keep things under control is upgrade less often. Because if you were the follow their path, they would want you to rob a bank to upgrade every year.
 
Are there any Apple products Tim Cook doesn't like? :)

I don't think what Tim Cook said precludes Apple from making an IOS laptop though. :)
 
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viperGTS said:
Well, they were originally against the stylus too, so... it's still possible.
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The Apple Pencil is not a stylus, in the sense that styli of the day were required to operate with precision on the resistive touchscreens of the day. Being able to operate a capacitive touchscreen with fingers alone was a huge advancement in user interface design. The Apple Pencil is a tool that further enhances specific use cases of touch.
 
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Fix the iPad apps and file system to work the same as MacOS. Problem solved. Apple for whatever reason, dumbed down iPad IOS and apps too far.​
 
Please get the software fixed and back on a more reasonable release schedule. That is all I ask beyond reasonable specs, and price points for some hardware.

I am very glad he realized there is room for Macs and iDevices, now let’s see what they do as far as improving their software.
 
As it makes sense for macOS and iOs to remain separate, it makes sense for the apps to remain separate. Rather than have an app that works across both, it would be better to have 2 apps, but let the customer make a joint purchase for a discount.
 
magicschoolbus said:
Apple has clearly taken a stance that the iPad is what they want customers using over Macs.
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They'd rather everyone buy an iMac Pro every year or two. But they know it's not going to happen.

Apple wants customers who can't afford Macs to think of the iPad as a laptop replacement.
 
You know what peeves me? Everyone there acts like its going to completely replace the two. So what if you have a third product? You have a starter iPad, then you have an iMac or MacBook Pro, then why not combine the two WITHOUT discontinuing the two lines? Some people are rather annoyed that the MBP doesn't have a touch screen. So, I mean, why NOT?!
 
The answer is so simple.


iOS will be dropped altogether and iPhones/iPads will run macOS. I don't see Apple continually evolving iOS and macOS for years and maintaining two separate and complex OSes that approach feature parity with each other.
 
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