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iPad is a product I want to love, but still never find a reason to use.
Yah, got a m4 ipad with a keyboard addon ... it just doesn't work, its not a computer.
It is a computer, just a little different.
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OLED display. There's also people who work in Procreate with a million layers and need all the horsepower and RAM they can get.
I guess OP's question is: If you need a million layers, and gigantic amounts of CPU and RAM, why aren't you working on a desktop workstation? I also had a hard time believing there's a real niche that tablets fill, but hey, they've been with us for years, so clearly somebody's buying them.
For purely technical editing a workstation is probably unbeatable but if you need to find inspiration there's very few things less inspiring than sitting on the same desk, within the same environment, day-in and day-out.
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It could be a great do-everything machine if they let you run macOS on it, but of course they don't want to sell one machine that does everything, they want to sell you an iPad and a MacBook even though they are basically the same hardware plus or minus an integrated keyboard.
I want that experience I seen on some other device at some point... Palm? I forget now. In tablet mode, iPad OS. Touch being the primary operation. Basically just as we see it now. In a pseudo desktop mode, macOS, where you get the power of a laptop in a smaller form factor. You can optionally try to use this in touch mode in a pinch but it's not necessarily designed for it. The win would be seamless switching. Inclu…
I just want an 11" Macbook air again. Even with the M2 it would fly. iPads with this horsepower just don't make sense. It's like a V8 Miata with 4 donuts for tires.
Maybe Apple moving into the modem space will get us there but it does feel like some sort of purposeful market segmentation
Were it not for constantly updated buying guides from tech news sites, Im not sure anyone even Apple employees themselves would know which iPad to recommend to anyone.
I don't really see the value proposition for the iPad Pro. It's got powerful hardware, but I can't imagine myself doing any heavy work on a tablet.
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This is a meme comment by now. I've been using an iPad Air (with Paperlike) for the past 4 years for basically running my life at school, and I can't imagine going back to working with actual paper for daily note-taking and homework assignments. It's great for reading whitepapers and marking them up while laying on the couch. That functionality by itself justifies its existence in my estimation.
For the same reason I bought the cheapest 10" Android tablet with external memory slot. I don't know what it's like now, but in the past Apple tried very hard to offer entry level models cheap, but for anything usable in terms of storage you had to pay a big premium.
How often do people upgrade airpads? I am not even sure who the target audience for them is anymore. Most people are comfortable with their phones and if it cannot be done on a phone, most people go to a desktop/laptop.
Why can't Apple just sell native macOS support for iPad at a rate where they wouldn't cannibalize their other offerings? I'd pay around $300-$400 for it without hesitation.
It's not about the money, it's about the principle. The entire reason why the iPad exists[0] is because they think fingers touching mouse software is a bad idea. Some people couch this request in terms like "well what if they made macOS touch friendly", but the answer to that is "that already exists, it's called iPadOS." What you actually want is for iPadOS to shed the limitations of the mobile OS it evolved from. Th…
I owned multiple iPads and never found a compelling use case for them. I don't know why I keep buying them but they have been great computers for my parents so it's not like I buy to shelf them. Are there any use cases (apart from drawing maybe. I can't draw a stick figure if my life depended on it so that's not for me) for developers?
iPads are useless for developers. When working I just use mine as a 3rd monitor for Slack, Notion, Linear, Grafana, or whatever I want to keep an eye on. iPads are amazing for other things though: - they're the best platform to read comics or mangas - they're great to learn/play piano with dynamic sheets - they're great for games (Balatro on iPad is top tier), and basically anything where tactile is good as an input…
I’ll know Apple is really in trouble when people stop complaining about each new product announcement
Are you new to this space? Complaining about product announcements, especially Apple's, is a game with many players and has been for decades.