Redesigned 11-inch and new 13-inch iPad Air
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Re: Redesigned 11-inch and new 13-inch iPad Air
#2So, a new M4 chip, up to 10 cores and all kinds of other hotness...yet Apple is still going to treat the iPad with all its big boy computer parts as just a toy computer incapable of compiling code or even giving me a terminal window, let alone run macOS apps.
Our house is chocked full of Apple gear, but the idea of spending a cool $1000 on a neutered consumption device gets less appealing with each generation.
Re: Redesigned 11-inch and new 13-inch iPad Air
#3No ipad mini for years is sad. Why not even bit of upgrade to ipad mini. I don't understand.
Re: Redesigned 11-inch and new 13-inch iPad Air
#4So, Apple is doubling down on messy, confusing product lines with no clear distinction or direction other than "must ship something every year"
Re: Redesigned 11-inch and new 13-inch iPad Air
#5So, a new M4 chip, up to 10 cores and all kinds of other hotness...yet Apple is still going to treat the iPad with all its big boy computer parts as just a toy computer incapable of compiling code or even giving me a terminal window, let alone run macOS apps. Our house is chocked full of Apple gear, but the idea of spending a cool $1000 on a neutered consumption device gets less appealing with each generation.
Hey, at least it can have native calculator app now. Lack of understanding the innovation about calculator app is real. It took them decade to make. Macos will take few more decades to integrate. Tech is not exist yet even with M4
Re: Redesigned 11-inch and new 13-inch iPad Air
#6So, a new M4 chip, up to 10 cores and all kinds of other hotness...yet Apple is still going to treat the iPad with all its big boy computer parts as just a toy computer incapable of compiling code or even giving me a terminal window, let alone run macOS apps. Our house is chocked full of Apple gear, but the idea of spending a cool $1000 on a neutered consumption device gets less appealing with each generation.
I'm also not in the target market, but it's definitely not "just a toy" simply because it's not suited for hackers like us.
Re: Redesigned 11-inch and new 13-inch iPad Air
#7So, a new M4 chip, up to 10 cores and all kinds of other hotness...yet Apple is still going to treat the iPad with all its big boy computer parts as just a toy computer incapable of compiling code or even giving me a terminal window, let alone run macOS apps. Our house is chocked full of Apple gear, but the idea of spending a cool $1000 on a neutered consumption device gets less appealing with each generation.
Conversely, I really like using my iPad Pro as a daily driver (eg. Slides, light blogging, Notion, reading, Zoom, Slack, etc) as most of my core apps and usecases are either PWAs or Apps already.
And I think this is the target demographic of the iPad - either creative types (eg. designers or musicians) or executives (eg. Consultants, PMs, etc) who are not code driven but still need a workbook style environment. From a security standpoint it is best for these users to be locked down (Least Privilege is a good security model to follow for non-technical users).
P.S. I do have my own ancient Macbook that I installed Ubuntu on for my own light hacking, but most of my personal tinkering dev is now on Cloud GPU instances so all I need is a dumb terminal for SSH.
Re: Redesigned 11-inch and new 13-inch iPad Air
#8So, a new M4 chip, up to 10 cores and all kinds of other hotness...yet Apple is still going to treat the iPad with all its big boy computer parts as just a toy computer incapable of compiling code or even giving me a terminal window, let alone run macOS apps. Our house is chocked full of Apple gear, but the idea of spending a cool $1000 on a neutered consumption device gets less appealing with each generation.
I agree, although having bought a Samsung Tab S9 for this reason, it too seems to be very limiting. Samsung Dex is cool and all, but the app selection on Android is worse than iOS and I couldn’t find a way to run Linux since Linux on Dex was killed off.
Re: Redesigned 11-inch and new 13-inch iPad Air
#9So, Apple is doubling down on messy, confusing product lines with no clear distinction or direction other than "must ship something every year"
I’m pretty sure they didn’t ship a new iPad in 2023 fwiw
Re: Redesigned 11-inch and new 13-inch iPad Air
#10So, a new M4 chip, up to 10 cores and all kinds of other hotness...yet Apple is still going to treat the iPad with all its big boy computer parts as just a toy computer incapable of compiling code or even giving me a terminal window, let alone run macOS apps. Our house is chocked full of Apple gear, but the idea of spending a cool $1000 on a neutered consumption device gets less appealing with each generation.
I’d much rather buy fully specced iPad Pro than a MacBook Air if only it wasn’t neutered by the iPad OS. And that probably is an issue for Apple since they don’t want products to canibalize each other. They want you to buy each and every product.
As it stands today even first gen iPad Pro 11 is more than powerful enough given software limitations.