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The trash can Mac Pro and butterfly keyboards are perfect examples of solutions looking for problems. But I don't think making the iPad's operating system usab

The trash can Mac Pro and butterfly keyboards are perfect examples of solutions looking for problems. But I don't think making the iPad's operating system usable is an attempt to somehow position the devices as "PC killers." For use cases where a tablet is sufficient to produce a particular work product, a more usable OS only enhances its effectiveness. This has no bearing on the huge number of use cases where a tablet is insufficient. I agree with the author that Apple would be barking up the wrong tree trying to switch the Macs to ARM processors. Macs are already comparatively a low-volume market and segmenting that market would not do them any favors in the face of increasing competition from Microsoft and Linux implementations.

blinkingled 7y ago
> But I don't think making the iPad's operating system usable is an attempt to somehow position the devices as "PC killers. I agree with that one - meaningful improvements to make the iPad a better choice for the users that can get away with using only the iPad as their primary device is a good thing. There's also a significant number of those users. But in practice, deciding what those capabilities are and how best to implement those are far more complicated questions - adding a mouse pointer is maybe a perfect illustration of the conundrum - should we, how should it look, what about the click targets, what about touch first, pencil etc.