>Since there is no alternative to inefficient software, products such as the 2019 iPad are praised because they can bludgeon through these tasks and still appea

>Since there is no alternative to inefficient software, products such as the 2019 iPad are praised because they can bludgeon through these tasks and still appear fast, but only due to their sheer power. The iPad is the alternative to inefficient software. In this case, the inefficient software is a web page that doesn't just have to load the media you want, but the entire application to run it too. It should be telling that a lot of shops use Electron, because even though it takes 500MB+ of RAM to run (for example) an IRC client, at least you don't have to download the code more than once. Contrast that to a thin client devices that already have this feature, have had it for the last 10 years, and have it already done natively. This is why it should surprise nobody that iPads are "good enough" today.