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Schiller wasn't talking about you. He qualified it as people using PCs that are more than 5 years old. They have usage patterns and goals completely different
by caseysoftware 11y ago
Schiller wasn't talking about you.
He qualified it as people using PCs that are more than 5 years old. They have usage patterns and goals completely different than anyone on HN. They don't use IDEs. They don't need "full Unix power" or anything similar.
Their usage probably looks like web browsing, sending/receiving email, and listening to music at most.
For them, an iPad is a probably a good functional alternative, even if the price point doesn't work.
- mrob 11y agoI use a PC that's about 6 years old. I use IDEs, I need "full Unix power", but I don't play modern games so 6 year old hardware is good enough. I have a quad core CPU and 8GiB ram so I'm rarely waiting for the hardware. I did upgrade to a bigger SSD but it's not subjectively much faster than the original SSD. A good 5 year old PC is much more powerful than any mobile device.
- cableshaft 11y agoHe didn't mean every single person who has a computer 5 years old or more. Just the average person who has an older PC. Specifically the type that only do a few things on the computer. Anyone who needs to use an IDE is already excluded from the iPad target market club, because its support for programming is pretty abysmal.
- rhodysurf 11y agoThen why call it "Pro"
- caseysoftware 11y agoIt could be branding? Just like most people don't like a "basic" offering. I could be "Pro" doesn't just mean the "professional software developers" and could mean any kind of professional?
- rhodysurf 11y agoIn this case it means pretty much Artistic professionals cuz Pencil is the only distinguishing feature.