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Apple has strong vendor lock-in. If you already have an iphone, apple watch, macbook, and you're in the market for a tablet, you are going to buy an ipad. So i
by dahfizz 5y ago
Apple has strong vendor lock-in. If you already have an iphone, apple watch, macbook, and you're in the market for a tablet, you are going to buy an ipad.
So if they make the ipads too capable, they eat their own laptop sales.
A company like samsung does not have as strong vendor lock in, so they may as well make their tablets fully capable computers, because they are not competing with themselves.
- chipotle_coyote 5y agoI think they're okay with eating their own laptop sales, at least if they're being eaten by iPad Pros. A 13" M1 MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD costs $1899; the same CPU, RAM and SSD in an iPad Pro costs $1799 -- which will easily cross over $2000 if you want to add a trackpad and keyboard to it. This isn't to say that they don't like vendor lock-in, of course. If you do buy both an iPad and a MacBook they'll be happy to take your money. :) But I think they're positioning the Pro as a genuine laptop alternative -- just not for developers. (Or speaking from personal experience, technical writers.)
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