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Tim Cook Says Apple Won't Create 'Converged' Mac and iPad

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Look at the lengths professionals go to for stylus input. THIS is definitely a niche case because it is the most inelegant solution to a simple problem. Change the screen hinge and support the Apple Pencil.

Professionals were Apple's bread and butter before iOS.
 
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Guys plz stop. Their touch os is iOS and it is buggy with some features on it. OSX for touch will be a very buggy OS. So until Apple can do an touch OS perfect, no need to make a hybrid.
The future touchscreen OS like OSX is iOS, probably now is still half way but the future is sure ios 10 ios 11 we will have icloud drive to be our file management between OSX iOS and icloud, we will have multiple user accounts since in 2-3 years we will have ipad pro with at least 64 gb 128 and probably 256 gb.
we will have the pro apps in iOS for ipad pro with the exact features maybe more for touch from the osx

and so on
 
QquegChristian said:
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Look at the lengths professionals go to for stylus input. THIS is definitely a niche case because it is the most inelegant solution to a simple problem. Change the screen hinge and support the Apple Pencil.

Professionals were Apple's bread and butter before iOS.
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That's the set up I had with my old PowerBook G4 and 5 inch Wacom tablet back in the day whenever I went out to cafes to do work. I longed for a true on screen tablet like the Cintiq for pro work and the reality is here now.
 
Well, Mr. Cook, where's the best Mac? Most newer Macs come with a crappy GPU.
Give us what we want!

Regarding your self-driving car, great idea; but the fact it will have to share the road with thousands of idiotic drivers is just going to cause more problems. Besides, not everyone will be able to afford it. It will just cause people to be more distracted on the road.
 
Fzang said:
Two devices for the price of one? Not on Apple's turf!
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Realistically, I doubt price is any sort of factor, since they'd probably make it "two devices for the price of three."
I mean, I'd still buy it...
 
Let us remind ourselves that this is the same Apple that said "no one" would want a smartphone with big screens and went on to release a 5.5" phablet iPhone, the same company that said they wouldn't make a smaller iPad and released exactly that afterwards:rolleyes:
 
Popeye206 said:
And plenty of us don't care about this feature too.

Maybe I'm the minority, but I do think what you do on a PC or Laptop is not something you'd do on a touch based tablet.... as well, the tablet is made for consumption with some authoring.

Let me put it this way... if my MacBook Pro screen could just come off and I could move to the couch and continue to work... I wouldn't. Nothing I do on my MacBook would I want to do on a Tablet.
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Sorry that’s complete bull.
If you had a device that behaved exaclty as a macbook with the keyboard attached and then transformed to be exactly as an iPad without, (assuming you like iPads), why would anybody not want that capability?
 
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jmpnop said:
Let us remind ourselves that this is the same Apple that said "no one" would want a smartphone with big screens and went on to release a 5.5" phablet iPhone, the same company that said they wouldn't make a smaller iPad and released exactly that afterwards:rolleyes:
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Yup. It's gotten to the point where if Apple is denying something, talking about how stupid it is, that probably means they've got their own solution right around the corner.
 
I remember seeing an old video the other day of Steve Jobs listing reasons Apple wouldn't make a stylus. Pencil anyone?

Never say never.
 
I'm getting quite fed up with Tim Cook's perspective. Sorry Tim, thats exactly what we want. Microsoft is really starting to find its way.
 
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Professionals were Apple's bread and butter before iOS.
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The important part here is unfortunately the past tense: they were the bread and butter. Now Apple makes a metric crap ton of money with the iOS toys, significantly more than they ever made with the pro users. And just like that, they stopped caring about the pro segment.
 
QquegChristian said:
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Look at the lengths professionals go to for stylus input. THIS is definitely a niche case because it is the most inelegant solution to a simple problem. Change the screen hinge and support the Apple Pencil.

Professionals were Apple's bread and butter before iOS.
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"Professionals" using Macs are the same professionals of today. Musicians, recording artists, graphic design artists, draftsmen and the like were not in high need for tablets with stylus's back in the day. The only exception were artists that needed to use the Wacom Tablet and they are not the majority.
 
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300+ comments and no-one can explain why they would want this. How would you combine both OS in one device: reboot to iOS when you unplug the keyboard?

The math is not that hard to understand: OSX + Touch = iOS

If anything, they will continue improving iOS so that it will become more capable. But they will never allow an OSX application to run on iOS because it was not built for touch. It's as simple as that.
 
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Steve was a visionary, Tim not so much. If you seriously think that we will be using contemporary computers in 20 years, just look back where we have come from, and think again. Like it or not the PC (and Mac) will be thing of the past sooner rather than later, and now is the time to boldly put yourself in front of that movement, that is: bring xcode to Ipad NOW.
 
My wife loves here iPhone and iPad. I'm happy with my nano and MBP. So to that extent we agree with Apple. What I would query is why every flavor of iPhone and iPad comes with cellular data as an option for life on the road, while cellular data is not an option for any of the laptops leaving me diving between wi-fi hotspots?
 
Mums said:
It would only be nasty because Apple no longer quality-checks its operating system software. Otherwise, it would be great to have the same OS on all devices.
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Well, I suppose we'll just have to agree to disagree on that. I like iOS - I just wish it was stepped up a bit. I have a Surface at work and it's just kind of eh. At least with my iPad I can honestly say that it is great at certain things. If I could just get a little more functionality out of iOS it would be perfect.
 
Incredible how many people here state they own Surface Pros. Personally I'd rather bite my head off and eat it than use Windows on anything, which is why I have an Android tablet, but obviously Windows 10 has won a lot of people back.

The real reason why Apple will never release a 2-in-1 is called Jony Ive. The screen would have to be at least as thick as the thinnest iPad (6.1mm). But then the keyboard must be heavier than the screen, otherwise the thing would fall flat on the screen all the time. That means at least 12mm thickness (unless the keyboard is heavier for some reason which it probably won't as all the guts will be in the tablet part), probably more if you want to have reasonable key travel. The new Macbook is 13mm at its thickest with its absolutely terrible keyboard. Apple aren't going to start making thicker products anytime soon. iPad Pro with a Whateveritscalled Keyboard Case is as good as it gets.
 
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Convergence... no, no, no. Divergence means more money! Why should you buy one toy if you can buy two, and spend more?


Latest’s OS X is plagued with bugs; iOS have them too. A tablet running OS X, would be a nightmare!


I’m still using Mavericks here, the last stable OS X. On the other side, Windows 10 is getting really, really good; maybe we should go the surface route.


Any walkthrough on how to install Mavericks on a i5 Surface?
 
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LMAO. What he really means is why sell us one converged device when they can sell us two devices and make twice the revenue and profit. Cook is such a BS-er.
 
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