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I just want someone to explain the $99 stylus. What's so special about it?
It's like the $80 magsafe charger. Thing probably costs $3 to manufacture and distribute, but good luck using your macbook without one. Simple price gouging, but most customers are happy to pay.
The announcements today just make me hang my head in chagrin. I love Apple products. Both my wife and I only use Macbooks, we have multiple iPads, iPods, and a second generation Apple TV. I look at this iPad Pro though and I see a totally useless device. For a device at that size, weight, and cost you would be better served buying an Macbook Air. If you want a tablet form factor then you would be better served buying…
My girlfriend have me have already decided to get one so we can watch Iplayer and YouTube in bed. We already use an iPad but our number one complaint is its too small!
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None of that really matters though. It's all about the applications. If you need to run Windows software, buy a Windows machine. If the applications you depend on require iOS, buy an iPad. Other non-software features (like battery life and weight) matter as well. Price doesn't really matter though.
Lots of businesses build their own software. Do you think it's easier to deploy private software onto an iPad or a Windows machine?
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I agree with the fact the the windows10/surface idea is the best for my use and purposes but... I would not call it a success, at least not commercially. The surfaces aren't selling so well atm, even after already 3 iterations.
I wonder if parent didn't mean to add a /s that statement.
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Right, it's competitive... But being competitive and "most advanced", to me, are two different things. Not knocking Safari's performance, the battery life you get from it kicks butt. Still, different. (Also, wow. Comex replied to me. Very cool.)
I mean, there's definitely a good argument that V8 is most advanced, but, for example, JSC is the only one that has the LLVM 'fourth tier', and it shows on asm.js benchmarks, where it mostly beats V8 (loses to Firefox, but that has asm.js-specific code while the others don't): http://arewefastyet.com/#machine=29&view=breakdown&suite=asm... So I think the question of "most advanced" is basically subjective. Don't get…
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"if you see a stylus, they blew it." - Steve Jobs, after the 2010 iPad introduction.
I just can't figure out why Jobs, and apparently lots of other people, are against adding an extra, more accurate method of interacting with a touchscreen, without removing any of its current capabilities . I'm not taking handwritten notes with my finger, get real. A stylus totally changes the range of interactions I can have with a device.
You'll notice that they introduced this stylus for the iPad Pro, and not for the regular iPad. This stylus is for a specific pro user that actually needs a pen input.
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https://developer.apple.com/programs/enterprise/ Enterprise customers can already sign their own apps for internal use.
Yeah but still sandbox restrictions no?
What do you get without the sandbox?
Predicted by a 3 year old comic: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COenroJWEAAjLoi.jpg:large
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I just want someone to explain the $99 stylus. What's so special about it?
It's like the $80 magsafe charger. Thing probably costs $3 to manufacture and distribute, but good luck using your macbook without one. Simple price gouging, but most customers are happy to pay.
You may not appreciate the "diminishing returns" of increased quality for increased price, but Apple's bottom line shows a great many do.
no USB port to be able to easily copy files to/from seems a bit detrimental to pro usage, as well as no way to connect an external display for presentations. This said there are plenty of use cases for a larger ipad with a stylus, I am sure it will be a very successful product.
> no USB port to be able to easily copy files to/from It's networked. iCloud, Dropbox, email, etc. > as well as no way to connect an external display for presentations. All current iPads have a dongle for HDMI out. And they can output to Apple TV. Do you think they removed that for this one? Despite the cute size and gorgeous screen I still haven't found a great use for the iPad. edit: Just looked at the dongles avai…