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This reads like "my use case defines what a computer is," which is absolutely as tiresome an argument as any fanboy debate. I imagine iOS can't do those things
by ubermonkey 4y ago
This reads like "my use case defines what a computer is," which is absolutely as tiresome an argument as any fanboy debate.
I imagine iOS can't do those things, either, and yet an iPad is the computing platform of choice for an awful lot of people because it meets their computing needs. Examine your biases here.
- nine_k 4y ago(1) Good hardware with good software support goes a long way. I'd say that iOS is much more of a polished OS than macOS. No wonder, considering that it's the iOS devices that fuel Apple's profits, not Macbooks. (2) For a lot of people, an iPad is more of a consumption device, or a device to run 2-3 specialized apps (e.g. for drawing or music). Maybe they would be glad if iOS offered wider universal computing capabilities, but their choice of a powerful and mobile device is pretty limited.
- ubermonkey 4y ago(1) It depends, as ever, on one's needs. iOS is limited by design in order to deliver the things it's intended to do more smoothly. There's a lesson there. (2) Many people really only use any computer as a consumption device, but the general ding of iOS as "read only" has always rung hollow to me. A large number of people work primarily with text -- emails, posts, documents, spreadsheets, presentations. An iPad with a keyboard is a GREAT tool for them, and that's not a "read only" use case. As an aside, when I last updated my camera kit I added an iPad Pro to use for photo processing and culling when traveling instead of a laptop. It's actually GREAT for that, too, but this level of power is relatively new to the platform.
- Damogran6 4y agoYour #1 is not a valid statement. OS, be it Mac, iOS, WatchOS, TVOS has a huge shared codebase. It's all OS, tweaked to the particular need of the hardware.