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iPad Pro: amazing hardware, but still limited by software
by jdlyga 5y ago
iPad Pro: amazing hardware, but still limited by software
- onkoe 5y agonot sure if i'd call it amazing, but it certainly does its job
- rowanG077 5y agoI'm not kidding when I say that I would pay a literal 3x premium for an Ipad Pro that can run linux.
- Google234 5y agoLinux should still be a subpar experience on the iPad. Apple is not going to write Linux drivers for their hardware.
- rowanG077 5y agoWell iOS is also a subpar experience on the ipad pro. Besides Apple does not need to write drivers for it. The ipad pro is just a macbook with no builtin keyboard and with a 120hz mini-led touch screen. Work on getting linux to work on it is essentially a few months to a year away most likely. Apple only has to allow users to run non-apple OS on it.
- theThreeTuples 5y agoThese things are a trade off. Developers should be targeting a platform rather than the hardware. Why would the user be concerned about the app pegging their ram and how to deal with it.
- tomjen3 5y agoYes. It seems to me that Apple really, really wants the iPad to be sold as a computer replacement and likes to think the problem is how powerful the hardware is, which is an issue for approximately 0.1% of their users, when the real issue is that it runs a toy OS. With Mac OS X on ARM, Apple needs to port OS X to the iPad, otherwise they should stop production.