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Wait, are you suggesting that iPads and iPads Pro are not mobile? In what sense are they tethered?

by pwinnski 5y ago

BizarroLand 5y ago
I think they mean systems with a SIM card or internet access without being tethered to WIFI.
- MBCook 5y ago
  You can buy iPads with cellular. You’ve been able to since the iPad 1.
  - BizarroLand 5y ago
    Yes, you can buy them, but not everyone does. Phones are by default portable with their own network connection, whereas iPads have to be specifically chosen to have cellular data service. It's alright to overlook them.
6gvONxR4sf7o 5y ago
The same sense as laptops. At a wild guess, I’m betting most people are buying ipads with wifi only, not cellular.
belltaco 5y ago
Are ultraportable laptops tethered? Would you call them mobile? Anyway, "mobile" has long been used as a short form for "mobile phone" rather than a "mobile device". E.g. the iPod was not called a mobile, and AFAIK barely anyone uses that term for tablets.
wvenable 5y ago
If iPads are mobile, why aren't laptops?
- toast0 5y ago
  Laptops use mobile cpus, but desktop oses and software. PC based tablets are kind of weird, but iOS/Android mobile OS based tablets are more or less phones with big screens and no/limited calling features.
  - wvenable 5y ago
    "Desktop OS's and software" is an arbitrary definition. Smartphones are just computers that make calls. Steve Jobs even famously said that the iPhone ran "OS X" when it was first launched.
    - toast0 5y ago
      It is somewhat arbitrary; yeah, smart phones can run whatever, but practically, they don't. For many reasons, the vast majority of people stick with the OS a device ships with, and mobile OSes are directed towards app stores and limited filesystems, and desktop OSes are directed towards applications (with a side of app stores) and visible filesystems and what not. You can run Android on a desktop PC, and you can (if you try really hard) run desktop Windows on a phone or a game console, but that's not how the devices are generally sold, and that's not how the devices are generally used. Apple sometimes claims their tablets are as useful as a computer running a desktop OS, but they don't provide Xcode for the iPad, do they?

Wait, are you suggesting that iPads and iPads Pro are not mobile? In what sense are they tethered?

BizarroLand 5y ago

I think they mean systems with a SIM card or internet access without being tethered to WIFI.

MBCook 5y ago
You can buy iPads with cellular. You’ve been able to since the iPad 1.
- BizarroLand 5y ago
  Yes, you can buy them, but not everyone does. Phones are by default portable with their own network connection, whereas iPads have to be specifically chosen to have cellular data service. It's alright to overlook them.

6gvONxR4sf7o 5y ago

The same sense as laptops. At a wild guess, I’m betting most people are buying ipads with wifi only, not cellular.

belltaco 5y ago

Are ultraportable laptops tethered? Would you call them mobile? Anyway, "mobile" has long been used as a short form for "mobile phone" rather than a "mobile device". E.g. the iPod was not called a mobile, and AFAIK barely anyone uses that term for tablets.

wvenable 5y ago

If iPads are mobile, why aren't laptops?

toast0 5y ago
Laptops use mobile cpus, but desktop oses and software. PC based tablets are kind of weird, but iOS/Android mobile OS based tablets are more or less phones with big screens and no/limited calling features.
- wvenable 5y ago
  "Desktop OS's and software" is an arbitrary definition. Smartphones are just computers that make calls. Steve Jobs even famously said that the iPhone ran "OS X" when it was first launched.
  - toast0 5y ago
    It is somewhat arbitrary; yeah, smart phones can run whatever, but practically, they don't. For many reasons, the vast majority of people stick with the OS a device ships with, and mobile OSes are directed towards app stores and limited filesystems, and desktop OSes are directed towards applications (with a side of app stores) and visible filesystems and what not. You can run Android on a desktop PC, and you can (if you try really hard) run desktop Windows on a phone or a game console, but that's not how the devices are generally sold, and that's not how the devices are generally used. Apple sometimes claims their tablets are as useful as a computer running a desktop OS, but they don't provide Xcode for the iPad, do they?