Please, elaborate....WHY???Apple needs to make this. They will make this and you will eat your words when they do.
Apple's iPad business alone is larger than many of the competing tech companies entirely. WHY does Apple need to do this?
Please, elaborate....WHY???Apple needs to make this. They will make this and you will eat your words when they do.
And how do you run x86 apps on ARM? Or are you suggesting this device would have both an ARM and Intel processor? How expensive would that be?
The the idea here is to not innovate, and instead continue down the x86 rabbit hole.My answer to that would be... who needs ARM? All the software worth using is x86. Usual disclaimer: I own and like the original Surface Pro, my opinions may not be representative of humans, etc.
I am sick and tired or hearing this excuse. It would take a few weeks and a handful of good developers to either make OS X "touch-able" or maybe a few extra months to create a hybrid OS with elements of both OS X and iOS...I would bet my house that this has, in fact, alread happened, it is just has not, for whatever reason, come to GA as of yet. possibly because Tim Cook, absolutely, positively, does not know how to "Think different."
How is choosing arm over intel Innovation? Because you think it's good?The the idea here is to not innovate, and instead continue down the x86 rabbit hole.
ARM designs are nearly on par with x86 now, with apple making staggering advancements faster than the rest of the industry. You really don't see an A10/A11 chip being more than enough for 90% of computer users?
You're arguing for stagnation.
I don't think anyone is saying apple just make the switch for OSX In a matter of weeks.We really want some half assed OS that wasn't made for touch made "touch-able" in a few weeks? It would be a joke. It would be like the tablets from the early 2000's. I don't see it happening. I don't even think a converging of iOS and OS X would happen at this point. Unfortunately, and believe me I wish this would happen sooner than later, I see them continuing the path they are on. Adding more and more desktop like features to iOS to put it more on par with OS X. Or maybe even breaking up iOS into phoneOS and padOS. There needs to be differentiators and I think that is what people want from an iPad. Desktop like features specific to iOS. iOS, for a phone, is fine the way it is.
How is choosing arm over intel Innovation? Because you think it's good?
Expect x86 is a big world which caters to many different situations.Look at the product pipelines of the ARM architecture in the works. To be so close to parity with Intel in such a short time and fulfilling the computing requirements (which admittedly don't go much beyond games, web browsers, and email) for the average consumer isn't innovation?
Mobile is where the new titans of software are rising from (excluding the ridiculous amount of money in the predatory gaming industry), why in the world does the future of computing have to be tied to legacy software that is the norm today?
Hell just look at Adobe, you can bet your ass that the vast majority of their income is going to be in the mobile platform in ten years.
"Skate to where the puck is going, not where I'm tied to a certain architecture because that's all I know today" - Wayne Gretzky
Expect x86 is a big world which caters to many different situations.
Come to me when arm has the power to renders a 1 gig 3d Model in Revit, or can power multiple 4k displays while rendering the 3d model in real time.
My answer to that would be... who needs ARM? All the software worth using is x86. Usual disclaimer: I own and like the original Surface Pro, my opinions may not be representative of humans, etc.
I assume the reason to boot to ARM at all would just be to save battery, because OS X could easily have an "iOS mode" built in where its interface mimics iOS. They clearly started to do this with Launchpad and then didn't follow through. I can't really think of a single piece of software on iOS that I would care about losing, except maybe Procreate
I don't think anyone is saying apple just make the switch for OSX In a matter of weeks.
Apple have some amazing software engineers, are you saying they don't have the capability to make a touch enabled OSX, but microsoft can?
Expect x86 is a big world which caters to many different situations.
Come to me when arm has the power to renders a 1 gig 3d Model in Revit, or can power multiple 4k displays while rendering the 3d model in real time.
I was amazed last year my old surface pro 3, such a thin, light weight device, could run Autocad, revit, skyrim etc I wouldn't have dreamed to be able to do that 3 or 4 years ago. While also giving me 7/8 hours of battery life.
I don't think anyone is saying apple just make the switch for OSX In a matter of weeks.
Apple have some amazing software engineers, are you saying they don't have the capability to make a touch enabled OSX, but microsoft can?
For the record the iPad Pro can edit 3 streams of 4K video at one...on a tablet.
All I was getting at was the device is powerful from a hardware perspective.It can edit 3 streams of 4K in the native imovie app as long as that 4K was shot with an iPhone which uses the same dedicated encoding/decoding chip in the iPad Pro.
What I mean by this is that it can edit Apple's 4K. This is the same reason a $300 GoPro type camera can play back it's own 4K video with ease.
Apple has done well optimizing for h:264 (maybe it is 265?) video all around. It's in the chip. Helps with battery life with Netflix, YouTube, etc.
But no professional 4K is shot in that codec. Apple's own white paper for ProRes codecs lists their 150mbps 4K codec as a "proxy" not suitable for rendering to a second generation. The iPhone shoots around 50mbps, or 1/3 the bitrate of a codec that Apple already says is not good enough quality for editing.
Just because something is 4K, that doesn't mean it is high quality. iPhone 6S 4K = 50mbps bitrate. My camera shoots 1080p at 220mbps bitrate using Apple's ProRes HQ codec. So my camera shoots 4x the data for 1/4 the pixels. That's 16x less compression.
The 4K we have on consumer recording devices today is like a 64kbps MP3 from the 90s. It is far too lossy. Even GoPro footage goes through heavy duty noise reduction and texturizing to be used for quick cutaway shots by professionals.
4K is such a buzz word, but it would've been far crazier if Apple would have given the option for 1080p at the 50mbps bitrate used for that 4K video. 50mbps is the bare minimum 1080p shooting bitrate of many broadcast standards. Putting that on an iPhone would make the phone acceptable for broadcast television. I suppose you could cheat and down-rez the 4K to 1080p in post to hit the acceptable standards.
Exactly.
There is a reason it's so powerful. Soon iOS updates and pro level apps will take full advantage of the hardware capabilities. This is only version 1, geez it just came yesterday. Your experience today is nothing like what it will be soon enough.
Ummm software doesnt work that way... Well at leadt good software doest. Too much legacy hanging around.I don't think anyone is saying apple just make the switch for OSX In a matter of weeks.
Apple have some amazing software engineers, are you saying they don't have the capability to make a touch enabled OSX, but microsoft can?
True multitasking..I want it to be able to do things like having 2 safari windows open side by side..but it can't.
I'd love that, too. Is there another browser that does split screen, so you could have Safari and the other browser together?
Yes, Chrome does it too.Firefox does it. I think I heard/read somewhere that Chrome does it too, but I don't have Chrome, so I can't check.
Price might be a factor. The device is too expensive for what it offers.
Price might be a factor. The device is too expensive for what it offers.
When you're at home, sure. Not so much when your only internet available is cellular and overage costs $15/GB.128gb is fine for me since I have my own private cloud. A synology ds415+ which is a great thing to have when you have lots of devices and you can share storage etc.. Cloud apps like spreadsheet etc..