I think one thing that would help is if Apple would stop pandering to 14-year-olds and replace the smiley face on the iOS keyboard with a Command key. They could also throw in the Option and Control keys while they are at it. Heck, they should have keyboards in iOS that mimic all of their other keyboards (MacBook, wired keyboard with the numeric keypad...). They control the software and the hardware. It shouldn't be that difficult for them. iToys.
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I think one thing that would help is if Apple would stop pandering to 14-year-olds and replace the smiley face on the iOS keyboard with a Command key. They could also throw in the Option and Control keys while they are at it. Heck, they should have keyboards in iOS that mimic all of their other keyboards (MacBook, wired keyboard with the numeric keypad...). They control the software and the hardware. It shouldn't be that difficult for them. iToys.
No, the graphics chipset in A9 devices has caught up with the integrated Intel graphics built into the i5. The actual processor portion isn't close when you compare like operations, and the graphics "parity" is only when compared to the embarrassingly slow performance of the integrated Intel graphics. When there are consumer graphics cards with well over 100x the computational power of Intel's integrated graphics, there is no respectable reason to use that as a benchmark.
I have 2 touch screen PCs. One is an HP Flip, and the other is ASUS Ultrabook. I have no problem using touch on the desktop side of Windows. It's not perfect, but 95% of the time, my touch input is accurate with my finger. And Windows icons and menus are smaller than on OSX. If anything, OSX is much more touch friendly than Windows.
So I don't get the agruement that everyone is claiming, that OSX is not touch friendly. With only some minor OS changes and app updates, OSX can easily become optimized for touch.
So I don't get the agruement that everyone is claiming, that OSX is not touch friendly. With only some minor OS changes and app updates, OSX can easily become optimized for touch.
I don't know about that. The integrated GPUs in Skylake are pretty stout, matching the power of most entry-mid level discrete laptop GPUs. If you look at gaming benchmarks on even the entry level Core M3 SP4, you'll see that they hold their own on quite well up til this most recent generation of games. And even then they surprisingly well considering what they are.
Typically to emulate another architecture in software the one doing the emulation has to be significantly faster then the one being emulated. Sadly Intel isn't licensing x86 anymore.
See my point being made for me, why did Apple go with Core M in the rMB if the A8X is so powerful?
That is both my children, and makes perfect sense.
Sales of cheeseburgers are on the decline too. Is THAT connected to sales of the Surface?
Apple doesn't want to make it because why sell 1 device when you can sell 2. It's not because people don't want it, plenty of people want it. You don't know how many times someone says to me that they are tired of carrying around an iPad and MacBook and wish they had 1 device that did them both. The iPad Pro and the MacBook are what don't make sense. The MacBook is an overpriced NetBook that basically does what an iPad can do. The iPad Pro is a NetBook that doesn't run a desktop OS and has a very awkward keyboard. I don't know anybody that could use an iPad Pro for all their work, unless all they do is write emails and do work processing.
I want a device that has the body of the new MacBook but with a screen I can detach and use as a touchscreen tablet or computer. They should have iOS and OS X separated, not a unified OS, and be able to switch easily between them and handoff my work between an app running on iOS and OS X. The keyboard should be wireless so I could mount the screen on a stand if I choose.
This would really be the ultimate travel device.
I want a device that has the body of the new MacBook but with a screen I can detach and use as a touchscreen tablet or computer. They should have iOS and OS X separated, not a unified OS, and be able to switch easily between them and handoff my work between an app running on iOS and OS X. The keyboard should be wireless so I could mount the screen on a stand if I choose.
This would really be the ultimate travel device.
i feel the exact same way. i mean, just look at any 13" mac and imagine pointing a finger at any menu item/icon on native resolution. also doubt a fraction of a percentage here use a wacom for the same thing: with an apple Pencil this would be a dream.
You mean the quarter before they announced the SP4? Just like when iPhones slow down before the new ones come out? This is your "Enough Said" point? Lol
I fully expect there's a prototype device running both as we type at some secret Apple test lab.... especially for usability purposes. This is a route Apple have absolutely experimented with and feel at this time, the software combined with the hardware just doesn't work as well as they'd like.
That is entirely based on the iPhone. But the iPad has been declining for many quarters. That is what is being discussed here.
In 1 quarter, Apple sells more iPads than MS has sold Surfaces in 3 years. The Surface has a tiny market.
The point is... you can manage that cost too. Upgrade what you want... and also take advantage of what's hot.
The bottom line is, I just don't like the "all-in-one" concept (for many products)... you almost always you have to compromise on something and I like having choices.
The general consensus is that your physical CPU has to be at least 3x as fast as the CPU its emulating to run smoothly, and that's assuming that your emulation code is as efficient as you can possibly get it, without any overhead whatsoever.
Apple's made HUGE strides with ARM over the last couple of years, but they're only now starting to match Intel's low voltage offerings. They've got a ways to go before they can say that claim you can get native performance through x86 emulation without chewing through a battery in an hour.
Of course. But how about the ENTIRE hybrid W10 market? The OEMs are selling hybrids like hotcakes. Surface paved the way.
You really can't understand a simple joke about similar input devices? or how the apple "pencil" and a mouse work?
Delusion? Because that experience is **** as well, even more so because the iPad Pro does not have an adjustable tilt angle.
By the way: you might have noticed that Microsoft included a trackpad in their Touch Cover keyboards for the Surface. Guess why.
So did the iPad sales. And you might have noticed that I also gave the peak revenue Microsoft got from the Surface. It never came even close to what Apple achieved.
…and yet the projected sales* for 2015 still are dwarfed by the total tablet sales (ca. 22 million units vs guesstimated 230 millions) and also by the classical "clamshell" laptop, that according to the same Gartner analysis that predicts the rise of the hybrid device will still be making up 87% of the mobile PC market in this year, and is also prognosticated to dominate the market for the coming years.
(* And it's interesting that suddenly an analyst's word has suddenly so much worth when it's usually dismissed here when it comes to Apple related predictions…)
My point stands firmer than ever: the hybrid market is miniscule.
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But don't forget that at the same time, the MacBook Airs have been getting smaller and smaller, lighter and (Jonny Ives Akbar!) thinner! Did I mention thinner and lighter? So the Mac laptops are closing the gap with the portability profile of the iPads.
They won't do it now, but they will eventually. That will happen once hybrid laptops become the norm. If Surface Book becomes a success, and there is nothing that says it won't (it's completely sold out everywhere and has a 4 week back order list), other manufactures will start making hybrid laptops because people will demand it. Apple will no have other choice but to follow. Same thing happened with an iPhone and the iPad. Eventually, even Apple has to follow the demand of the market.
If you think Apple won't make a hybrid laptop (ala Surface Book), you don't understand how economics work.
If you think Apple won't make a hybrid laptop (ala Surface Book), you don't understand how economics work.
Not only children. My mother never used a zoom feature on her machines trackpads until she had a touchscreen and uses it constantly. touching a screen is much more intuitive than using a trackpad.