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Services revenue reaches new all-time high"
For anyone like me who didn't want to actually have to go a read them :D
Revenue: B$97.3, up 9% EPS: $1.52 Operating Cashflow: B$28 Returned B$27 to shareholder (buybacks, dividends I assume?)
Ah:
Divided: $0.23/share Share pepurchase fund increase: B$90
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I believe it is time for Apple to rethink iPad and MacBook. They both have the same chip now. iPad should be a Macbook Air. Apple already allows to run iPad applications on macOS. They should completely destroy iPadOS, and let macOS run on iPad. I would prefer to have powerful OS (macOS) with some glitches on iPad, than to have an iPad with limited OS (and still have glitches to be honest). I even ok to use similar t…
>iPad should be a Macbook Air. Isn’t there already a MacBook Air? It just seems that trying to use the Mac UI purely by touch would be godawful. I mean how do you Command-click, or right-click a UI element with your finger? These are solvable, but only with horrible compromises. The iPad has a completely different interaction model to very good reasons, and this would utterly butcher it. Microsoft tried this approach…
That's already in iPad OS/iOS. It's the long touch.
>Microsoft tried this approach and it was disastrous.
Surface Pro/Go is a pretty successful product for Microsoft.
I've ordered a new macbook 14" in early March, my delivery date slipped twice already, now it says it's going to be delivered in July. I wonder how much more money would they make if not for supply issues.
Fair depressing experience.
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>iPad should be a Macbook Air. Isn’t there already a MacBook Air? It just seems that trying to use the Mac UI purely by touch would be godawful. I mean how do you Command-click, or right-click a UI element with your finger? These are solvable, but only with horrible compromises. The iPad has a completely different interaction model to very good reasons, and this would utterly butcher it. Microsoft tried this approach…
> It just seems that trying to use the Mac UI purely by touch would be godawful. I mean how do you Command-click, or right-click a UI element with your finger? That's already in iPad OS/iOS. It's the long touch. >Microsoft tried this approach and it was disastrous. Surface Pro/Go is a pretty successful product for Microsoft.
Windows 11 on a tablet is really not that bad.
(I also run linux on a desktop and have an iPhone and Apple Watch, so not a hater by any stretch of the imagination)
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> I really understand when I want to use the phone or the notebook computer. The iPad is sort of in the middle. I'd never seen it put that way before, but I think it hits the nail right on the head for me. I do like my 2020 iPad Air when I use it, and the pencil is great; however, I basically end up using it as easy scratch paper or when copy-pastable handwriting is useful. Plus when I need an extra screen to go with…
The most compelling use case I've seen yet for the iPad is for regular people who don't want a desktop or laptop computer, but don't want to do everything on their phone. The iPad is just a really big smartphone that with a folio keyboard can become an impromptu laptop if needed. In my extended family I have a few people who are using it for this exact use case and love it. Only one of them even has the keyboard, and…
I am simply amazed by how much money this company makes. Nice boost to Mac business with the new Macbook Pros selling like hotcakes and OOS constantly.
downside are the two usb-c and the endless accessories that are quite expensive
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> It just seems that trying to use the Mac UI purely by touch would be godawful. I mean how do you Command-click, or right-click a UI element with your finger? That's already in iPad OS/iOS. It's the long touch. >Microsoft tried this approach and it was disastrous. Surface Pro/Go is a pretty successful product for Microsoft.
I got a Surface 7+ recently and really like it. I can put full desktop applications (firefox + ublock origin, pycharm) and have it better mirror my dev environment with WSL. Windows 11 on a tablet is really not that bad. (I also run linux on a desktop and have an iPhone and Apple Watch, so not a hater by any stretch of the imagination)
1. Linux support was pretty bad. You needed a custom kernel for an enjoyable experience, and even that was pretty unusable on anything other than x11 GNOME.
2. The overheating was a dealbreaker. I presume this was either a driver issue or hardware failure, but the device would regularly hit 55c in normal workloads, which was a no-go for that sort of product.
It was so close to being the Linux iPad of my dreams, but fell just short. I might give one of the later models a shot someday, but I'm not really in a rush. Maybe once Alder Lake makes it's way into a decent Windows convertible, it will finally be The Year of the Linux Tablet.
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My only gripe is the lack of USB-A to make it truly dongle free.
Just buy a USB-C to USB-A adapter and leave it permanently attached. USB-A is a legacy connector and needs to just die already.
I’m not surprised that the iPad has a decline. My son has a few year old 9.7” iPad and it works great still. Consume media very easily and even have games. I can notice the difference between it and my 2018 iPad Pro but I could see people are just not going buy new ones every year or two. I’d like the M1 iPad Pro but it’s not worth the jump in price.
It was what got me to go for the pro.