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This view seems to ignore the incredible success of the iPad.

bfrog 5y ago
The iPad really has been the only tablet worth buying, it doesn’t cost that much at its lowest end device, has all the great and fast apps creators want (procreate is amazing) and really does it all well. I’ve never used an android device that didn’t always feel slow. Didn’t matter how new/fast the device was.
bryanrasmussen 5y ago
Ok but is the iPad the future? I mean it seems to have plateaued at a very respectable position, but it doesn't look like it's going to conquer the world the way it looked a few years ago.
- hulitu 5y ago
  Maybe if they reduce the price. For what it offers, it's expensive.
manachar 5y ago
The iPad selling well annoys me, as it's prevented a touchscreen/drawable MacBook. Apple and most others would rather us have broken and locked down operating systems that sell us apps, it's more profitable for them and increasingly it's what consumers want to.
- LeoPanthera 5y ago
  > The iPad selling well annoys me, as it's prevented a touchscreen/drawable MacBook. I am extremely grateful that this has been Apple's path, because I don't want touch screen support in macOS. It would inevitably make it worse for keyboard and mouse usage, as has happened with both Windows and Gnome.
- ako 5y ago
  I have a laptop with touchscreen, mostly forget about it until i by accident touch the screen, and then usually it does something irritating. The touchscreen is more of a problem then a benefit. The only devices that really benefit from a touchscreen are phones and tablets. And there for certain types of apps it may even be a better input device than keyboard and mouse. This could be one of those situations: https://www.shapr3d.com/ https://www.shapr3d.com/
  - sdoering 5y ago
    I am in the other camp. I have a convertible and regularly use it in tablet mode. Be it when using whiteboard in a remote presentation, be it when reading pdf and doing annotations. Sometimes I even do work in photo editing with the pen on the screen. Afterwards I just switch back into normal mode and use it to create presentations, write code and just do my work. I think there are different types of people/users with different types of needs. Why not provide for both. Other vendors do this by providing the same model as regular and as convertible version.
tonyedgecombe 5y ago
Although it has never threatened the Mac in the way many expected. Even Microsoft pivoted their operating system to be tablet friendly, at the expense of desktop users, only to find the market is quite small.
pjmlp 5y ago
You mean the success where they were forced to make a laptop out of it with a set of Apple keyboards for iPads, because people were buying those from Logitech et al anyway?

The iPad really has been the only tablet worth buying, it doesn’t cost that much at its lowest end device, has all the great and fast apps creators want (procreate is amazing) and really does it all well. I’ve never used an android device that didn’t always feel slow. Didn’t matter how new/fast the device was.

bryanrasmussen 5y ago

Ok but is the iPad the future? I mean it seems to have plateaued at a very respectable position, but it doesn't look like it's going to conquer the world the way it looked a few years ago.

hulitu 5y ago
Maybe if they reduce the price. For what it offers, it's expensive.

manachar 5y ago

The iPad selling well annoys me, as it's prevented a touchscreen/drawable MacBook. Apple and most others would rather us have broken and locked down operating systems that sell us apps, it's more profitable for them and increasingly it's what consumers want to.

LeoPanthera 5y ago
> The iPad selling well annoys me, as it's prevented a touchscreen/drawable MacBook. I am extremely grateful that this has been Apple's path, because I don't want touch screen support in macOS. It would inevitably make it worse for keyboard and mouse usage, as has happened with both Windows and Gnome.
ako 5y ago
I have a laptop with touchscreen, mostly forget about it until i by accident touch the screen, and then usually it does something irritating. The touchscreen is more of a problem then a benefit. The only devices that really benefit from a touchscreen are phones and tablets. And there for certain types of apps it may even be a better input device than keyboard and mouse. This could be one of those situations: https://www.shapr3d.com/ https://www.shapr3d.com/
- sdoering 5y ago
  I am in the other camp. I have a convertible and regularly use it in tablet mode. Be it when using whiteboard in a remote presentation, be it when reading pdf and doing annotations. Sometimes I even do work in photo editing with the pen on the screen. Afterwards I just switch back into normal mode and use it to create presentations, write code and just do my work. I think there are different types of people/users with different types of needs. Why not provide for both. Other vendors do this by providing the same model as regular and as convertible version.

tonyedgecombe 5y ago

Although it has never threatened the Mac in the way many expected. Even Microsoft pivoted their operating system to be tablet friendly, at the expense of desktop users, only to find the market is quite small.

pjmlp 5y ago

You mean the success where they were forced to make a laptop out of it with a set of Apple keyboards for iPads, because people were buying those from Logitech et al anyway?