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Will Apple ever make the iPad/Mac hybrid "Surface Book"?
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Apple have their reasons for not including a flash on the backside of the iPad. Maybe they don't want everyone taking out their iPads, walking around and holding them up snapping pictures all the time, but who knows. I could only say that wouldn't be the best device to take pictures with because of its size alone, the situation would not be ideal.
But wait you just said this "You can use the term BETTER, that is a good and correct term, todays iPad is technically better than the last iPad.
However, also the current iPad is weaker and less strong than the 1st iPad, so iPad1 could be considered the BEST for strength, and iPad Air 2 is not the best in that aspect." So then you retracted your previous statements in your earlier posts saying there isn't any best and that is an artificial term, by saying the iPad one can be considered the best for strength?
You might be the only person on this planet who would argue that aluminum isn't the best material for an aircraft either. Well maybe we should make it with paper then. Your analogy is flawed, you're statements are contradicting, you are confused and you are trolling. So I will say again you should stop if you don't want to continue looking foolish.
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Sorry, but you are the foolish one, for not understanding "Best"
Aluminium is the best material for a plane?
What sort of plane? a glider, a human powered plane?
Note: We are not speaking of a material here, you can have the best material for a precise given task, however when it comes to a collection of parts to create a general purpose device then the term best becomes meaningless, as it's just does this product meet your list of requirement.
Perhaps Titanium would be best for the shell, but it's too expensive and harder to machine so they don't use it.
Apple making $200 profit could be their goal, so making that amount of profit would be best for them, not the best product.
Sorry, you need to use a different term as best only means meeting the goal you placed for yourself.
I can say I want to create a car for $100 and I do, it's the best car I can make for $100, and I have reached my goal in doing so, but it does not mean it's the best car I can make.
Perhaps that is where you are getting so confused.
I'm speaking of the word best. You wanted to start an argument about how the word best is meaningless and that there is no such thing as best. You even said it is an artificial term. Now according you there can be best in materials for a given task but not a product?
Using your analogy all these years many companies who've been using the best materials and technology put together to make what they thought was the best product they could make at the time have been so wrong. Because you can't make the best product you know how to even if you use the best materials, because there just can't be a best product. You contradict yourself over and over again talking this filth. Now see you words below as I have quoted it so you can read it again to see if it makes more or less sense to you.
"We are not speaking of a material here, you can have the best material for a precise given task, however when it comes to a collection of parts to create a general purpose device then the term best becomes meaningless, as it's just does this product meet your list of requirement."
That Macs can't be used with multi touch or any other on screen interface is a paradigm. With a nice VESA mount you can adjust the angle and orientation of a 27" iMac to place it in any ergonomic way you want it to be.
They can add the same tech they are using now for the iPad Pro to pair it with
Pencil and any other ForceTouch 3D whatever magic name they want to use. Just repeating what a marketing guy at apple wants to sell isn't what many of us want to have.The Surface has its own set of issue I guess Apple maybe be able to better solve. The last set of Surface Pros I check at a local Best Buy seem to be a grilling burning box needing all the vent ports all around therefore not looking comfortable to handle like a tablet.
It would be helpful if you quote my entire post and actually state what you disagree with. Or maybe you're just trolling.
Compelling speculation here:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/ipad-pro-macbook-2-in-1-hybrid-tablet-laptop/
http://www.zdnet.com/article/ipad-pro-macbook-2-in-1-hybrid-tablet-laptop/
Yes nice piece and great speculation but highly unlikely and definitely not Apple like.
The problem with the term Best is that then you are saying, given everything you know and can do, you cannot do any better, you have run the mile in 2.5 minutes, and that is trying your best, it's the best time you are ever going to do as you are at the very peak of your age/fitness, you cannot beat it, it's your best.
If you say Apple makes the best tablet it can with todays iPad, then you are saying, that is that.
Apple, given all it's resources and willpower in the world, could not make a better iPad.
We know this is simply not the case. As by the time any Apple product launches, they are probably well into the design phase of a better one, and even at time of launch, Apple could make any of it's products better.
So they are never the best they can make.
Likewise, Apple set a price point and a profit margin, so they are working within self imposed artificial constraints, so again the "Product" is not the best they can make.
hmm, fails to provide a pointer device? Let's see.. There's your finger, about any capacitive stylus out there, and umm, wait for it..
THE FRACKING APPLE PENCIL?
I disagree with you so I wish to silence you. The totalitarian impulse
I disagree with you telling posters that if they don't like the ipad pro then use something else and dont post here
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I like the progress but it really needs to run a real operating system file file management. I was hope the new MacBook released last spring would be a good upgrade from my MBA, but it was a step back in processor/memory in favor of slim design, fancy keyboard and longer battery life. The new Surface pro looks like the best game in town...except for the Apple pen...and that's coming shortly. I want an iPad that has force touch, can run OSX (be nice if it could make phone calls) and will allow me to upgrade and replace two devices (laptop and tablet) with one. Apple just wants me to buy two devices and they won't make the jump...I can't see any other reason.
While the analysis is correct, the perspective is wrong...at least for me. I don't want a desktop has tablet capabilities like a touchscreen, I want a tablet that has desktop capabilities like the ability to run a real operating system a file management etc.
I think the real motivation for Apple as they just make too much money off of selling me two devices instead of one. I must say it's difficult to remain in the Apple family when you feel like they're not advancing technology or customer needs for the sake of a dollar.
I honestly really want the hybrid. That would be amazing
A few of us have been beating that drum. Glad to see another "convert".I still contend that for some/many, adding pointing device support would go a long way toward moving the iPad closer to that point of convergence... certainly more than a magic crayon or pencil.
I like it! Definitely faster and practical one the screen is used primarily for display. Perhaps your phone could be used as a trackpad. I really want to consolidate my devices...love the iPad for videos/reading/games/music at parties. Smart phone/watch for quick access and portability. The laptop is only needed to process my email and photos fast because it has better input devices (and file management). Right now I'm typing this with one finger on my iPad...that's just wrong!
it would be SO great to have macbook 12" which you can fold back and use it as tablet...
I like Apple stuff and I love my Surface Pro 3 (though I have to fight Windows...) though I don't see the rest of my family or friends using the surface.
Anyway, I don't see Apple making a 2-1 device, losing their precious money from computers and tablets...
They are making money! and they are the best company on the world doing that.
I like Apple stuff and I love my Surface Pro 3 (though I have to fight Windows...) though I don't see the rest of my family or friends using the surface.
Anyway, I don't see Apple making a 2-1 device, losing their precious money from computers and tablets...
They are making money! and they are the best company on the world doing that.
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