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Yes. I wonder if this is about education. Essentially I think Apple have realised their new developer pipe is drying up; the devices are too expensive for hob
by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
Yes.
I wonder if this is about education.
Essentially I think Apple have realised their new developer pipe is drying up; the devices are too expensive for hobbyists and they are vastly too expensive for almost all schools on earth.
The Pi 400 is a wholly credible device in those markets; it solves a lot of the practicality issues of the earlier machines.
A device with even an old style A14 or the M1 in an M2 future, tucked inside a keyboard, could be made viable for this market, I think, and it's seemed obvious to me for some time that the only reason Apple don't make the Apple TV into a general purpose education computing device is that they don't care about the market.
If they've started to care about that market again, it's a good thing.
- em500 5y agoHow do laptops without screens make any sense in schools, which are largely already deploying cheap laptops with screens?
- sanjayio 5y agoI’m terms of user experience Apple is unparalleled. If I was a teacher and there was a cheap option to educate kids with less hands on from me, I’d go with that option in a heart beat.
- ksec 5y agoCould be targeting library or desktop business uses cases? There is no reason why it cant be squeezed down to $299. Basically the iPad ( $329 ) without screen. Or more like with A14 but $399. Cool idea, the problem is I still dont understand where the target market are, the two above doesn't seems very Apple to me. There are ~700M business PC ( both laptop and desktop ), I would imagine this is attractive enough for Apple to make exception.
- csunbird 5y agoor, just make ipad a proper handheld general purposed device that can be used for more sophisticated purposes, instead of crippling it.
- ta988 5y agoIt is also because the developer experience on a mac is a disaster when you have to use docker (and can't do it in a VM).
- mcphage 5y ago> I think Apple have realised their new developer pipe is drying up Is this actually happening? New iOS apps seem to be coming along in a flood like usual.