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Hopefully, this means we’ve reached some critical mass of Mac apps moving over. Because the iPad is the future of computing, much the same way the GUI supersed
by gallerdude 8y ago
Hopefully, this means we’ve reached some critical mass of Mac apps moving over.
Because the iPad is the future of computing, much the same way the GUI superseded text interfaces.
- seba_dos1 8y agoAfter some initial craze in the first years, I rarely even see an iPad (or any other tablet) in the wild anymore. Smartphones getting bigger seem to have already replaced them.
- orbifold 8y agoIt is a really valuable tool for knowledge workers. If you study medicine for example a lot of courses provide you with tons of slides with low information density. The last thing you want to do is carry them around as printed out stacks of paper. You need to be able to annotate them and draw little diagrams on them. For that an IPad Pro is perfect.
- mb_72 8y agoiPads are used a lot by myself and musicians I know; there are a lot of cheap apps that cover virtual synths, drum machines, song learning, DJing, even full DAWs. They are amazing machines that 'just work' for many musical situations.
- 1over137 8y agoThe "future of computing" is a device where you can't install your own software without the permission of a large undemocratic foreign company? Sounds horrible.
- gallerdude 8y agoCars and trucks, right? As much as us on HN don't like to admit it, regular users don't really care that the App Store is the only place to get apps.