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That's an interesting perspective, but that is essentially Apple breaking everything for everybody and forcing obsolescence of their products. I consider that

• Silhouette 11y ago
  That's an interesting perspective, but that is essentially Apple breaking everything for everybody and forcing obsolescence of their products. In practice, yes, that is very much the result. Sadly this seems to be SOP for Apple across the board in recent years, but it's particularly bad with the mobile devices. The thing is, people don't notice the cost of their shiny new iPhone so much because it's obscured by ongoing contracts with their network. Tablets and laptops don't enjoy the same luxury, which I suspect is a large part of the reason tablet sales figures have been less impressive since the early new-shiny rush for a few years after the first iPad arrived. I consider that slightly different from "I can't do task x on my iPad because it isn't powerful enough". Fair point, but I think it starts to become relevant for much the same reasons if you want the iPad to be taken seriously as a laptop competitor. At that point, it doesn't just have to be powerful enough to run toy apps today, it also has to be powerful enough to run serious productivity applications tomorrow. Earlier generation iPads -- even ones just a few years old and well within the normally expected working lifetime of a professional computer -- demonstrably didn't have enough power to do that with the combination of hardware and software being offered.