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Any device you cannot program yourself is a toy. Apple understands this, hence the pivot to entertainment rental services like Apple TV, Apple News, Apple Music

• _mlbt 3y ago
  Despite the name, Swift Playgrounds is surprisingly capable. It is much more than just a child's play thing and learning tool. I use it all the time to prototype ideas or whip up quick programs to solve an immediate problem when I'm away from my Mac. It even supports submitting SwiftUI apps to the App Store (with some limitations of course).
• Razengan 3y ago
  > Any device you cannot program yourself is a toy. That has to be one of the dumbest of dumb takes. A car is a toy. A fridge is a toy. A spaceship is a toy. (Hint: Those are all controlled by predefined knobs and bits and not ""programmable"" by the user. If your argument is that you can rip open a car and do whatever you want with it, well, nothing's really stopping you from doing the same to an iPad or iPadOS, if you can figure out how to do it.)
  • Zetobal 3y ago
    Even some toys are toys.
  • vundercind 3y ago
    It's a common POV on this site and I don't get it at all. All I can figure is there are a bunch of folks who think the only useful thing you can do with computers is make software for computers, so if a computer's anything less than excellent for that specific purpose, it's just a toy. Meanwhile everything important in my actual life that involves a computer takes place on my phone (an iPhone, the greatest bogey-man for that crowd, as far as I can tell) or on some purpose-specific device of one sort or another. Zero percent of it happens on a "real" computer—their role in my personal life is entirely toy-like.