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> Why can I not get a tablet like that? You can: https://pine64.com/product-category/pinetab/
Was very enthusiastic to check this out, but then >Resolution: 1280×800 pixels Yeah...I'm out. Even cheapo Android tablets now have 2000x1200 displays. I bought an ARM Windows tablet for 200 Euro and that has a 2880x1920 display. My eyes are grateful when reading text, not going back to displays reporting in inches per pixel. I'm really sad Intel pulled the plug on X86 Atom chips for tablets. It was super easy to boo…
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My 2019 iPad Pro is kind of obsolete, its battery life isn’t great. But it still does mostly what I need it to do, so I can’t bring myself to buy a new one.
What does obsolete mean to you? There’s nothing obsolete about a 2019 iPad Pro. It received the most recent iPadOS update and it’ll certainly receive an update to iPadOS 17. The hardware is as good or better than current entry level iPads. The battery should still be good, but maybe yours needs replaced.
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> Is Google or any Android manufacturer doing security updates for a phone released in 2013? lol, goal posts moved. To demonstrate the absurdity of this logic, let's talk about how much better Linux is than Apple. Linux (various distributions, collectively referred to here as "linux" for convenience) still supports many systems that are 20+ years old! In fact, Linux is often used to give unsupported Apple devices a l…
How is this moving the goalposts? We are comparing phones. Unless you have a phone from 20 years ago running the latest version of Linux. > Google is also much more serious about backward compatibility than Apple, and How is Google “better” at backwards compatibility when they don’t support devices as long? The iPhone 5s which was introduced in 2013 got a security update earlier this year. Is the same true for Androi…
No the conversation is not comparing phones in general. They're discussing specifically when the Pixel (from 2016) stopped being supported. Your comment is the first one that expanded/changed the subject from when one specific phone lost support to all phones/Apple/Google in general, and it was in a reply/rebuttal to a defense of when the Pixel 2016 stopped receiving updates. Classic definition of the fallacy of moving the goalposts.
If you want to debate all phones in general, you should clearly bring that up rather than sneak it in as a rebuttal to a different subject.
For the record, I'm not disagreeing that in general Apple > Android on updates. It clearly is IMHO and this is a major thing Goolge needs to improve on (and I say that as someone who will never buy an Apple product again).
> The included charging dock is also a speaker. I've gotta say, charging docks are a killer feature for me and I don't understand why Apple doesn't do the same. There used to be the Logitech Base [1] that I still use with the previous-gen (9th) iPad, but the smart connector in the newest iPad (10th gen) is no longer compatible with it, as the angle of the edge changed. It's been years since I plugged in my phone or A…
The HP Touchpad had an awesome wireless charging stand all the way back in 2011.[0] What I especially liked about it is that WebOS (before I blew it away and loaded Android onto the tablet) could switch to a slideshow mode when it was left on the stand, and so your Touchpad could serve as a digital picture frame while not in use. [0] https://www.phonearena.com/news/HP-TouchPad-Touchstone-Charg...
> The included charging dock is also a speaker. I've gotta say, charging docks are a killer feature for me and I don't understand why Apple doesn't do the same. There used to be the Logitech Base [1] that I still use with the previous-gen (9th) iPad, but the smart connector in the newest iPad (10th gen) is no longer compatible with it, as the angle of the edge changed. It's been years since I plugged in my phone or A…
Apple isn't good at charging. There's a lot of aspect they excel, graphic design, ergonomics, material etc. Charging has never been their forte. I present as evidence: - the original humongous 31 pin ipod cable - the harpooned mouse - the wireless charging mat they never could deliver - the first Apple pencil (and its usb-c charging cable...) - their previous gen desktop keyboards charging over lightning Their only g…
And even then they botched the gen 1 magsafe connector joint's design so badly it resulted in a lawsuit and settlement to replace every one of them.
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Lightning out-lived micro USB, two types of mini USB and a thousand proprietary device specific connectors. What are you talking about?
Lightning was put on the iPhone in 2012. Other phone manufacturers switched to micro-USB in 2009 at the behest of the EU. Apple even released a micro-USB -> 30 pin connector to comply with the law. Digital cameras, and other devices do have a habit of picking other connectors.
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Apple isn't good at charging. There's a lot of aspect they excel, graphic design, ergonomics, material etc. Charging has never been their forte. I present as evidence: - the original humongous 31 pin ipod cable - the harpooned mouse - the wireless charging mat they never could deliver - the first Apple pencil (and its usb-c charging cable...) - their previous gen desktop keyboards charging over lightning Their only g…
>- the original humongous 31 pin iPod cable The first two iPod models had a 6-pin FireWire port. It wasn't until the third generation that they introduced the 30-pin connector that worked with both FireWire and USB on the PC side to introduce Windows compatibility.
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I had a previous generation Pixel C some years back and they absolutely don't provide software updates for nearly long enough, it became useless junk within a couple of years. contrast to iPads which work for 5+ years. i have a pixel phone but for tablets it's only Apple.
What made it useless junk for you? I still use my Pixel C daily.
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How is this moving the goalposts? We are comparing phones. Unless you have a phone from 20 years ago running the latest version of Linux. > Google is also much more serious about backward compatibility than Apple, and How is Google “better” at backwards compatibility when they don’t support devices as long? The iPhone 5s which was introduced in 2013 got a security update earlier this year. Is the same true for Androi…
> How is this moving the goalposts? We are comparing phones. No the conversation is not comparing phones in general. They're discussing specifically when the Pixel (from 2016) stopped being supported. Your comment is the first one that expanded/changed the subject from when one specific phone lost support to all phones/Apple/Google in general, and it was in a reply/rebuttal to a defense of when the Pixel 2016 stopped…
The iPad support is basically inline with the iPhone that was released at the same time.
And by the way, the iPad released in 2017 is still capable of running the latest OS (there wasn’t a regular iPad released in 2016)