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You don't get why people who have full control over their current Pro computers wouldn't want to move to a locked down, walled in garden of a "Pro" device? The
by wayneftw 7y ago
You don't get why people who have full control over their current Pro computers wouldn't want to move to a locked down, walled in garden of a "Pro" device?
The vast, vast majority of the hundreds of millions of customers they gained with the iPad aren't doing any work that is even remotely similar to what can be done on a general purpose OS. And furthermore, even if they can do some of the same work - they can't do it with nearly the same efficiency.
The vast majority of iPad users aren't even doing any work on their iPads. They're consuming.
Apple can keep trying to make the iPad appeal to users who need full control over their computer, but it ain't gonna happen until they actually give us full control.
- HatchedLake721 7y agoI get why people wouldn't want to move to a locked down computer. I am a developer/engineer making a living off a MacBook, I'm not moving to iPad. What I meant is, I don't get why people don't understand why Apple doesn't care to their needs of "do network troubleshooting with MAC address access", to extent that they're angry, and say "[Apple] screwed the pooch so badly that you lost me as a customer and a developer". This is unbelievable thing to say, especially in this community. Should I stop using Apple as a customer and developer because they're not bringing out native Kubernetes integration to manage my serverless Knative functions on iPad? ...