Comment on Apple’s Craig Federighi on the long road to the iPad’s Mac-like multitasking

the_q@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m sorry, but I didn’t realize that the phone that fits in my pocket is the same as the fourteen inch computer that lives on my desk. And the 1500 nits screen on my MBP is exactly the same as the 500 nits screen on my iPad Air. Fuck you for treating me like a dumbass. I know what I’m paying for.

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  • the_q@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m not treating you like a dumbass, Apple is.

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    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Thanks for belittling my intelligence. You’re an asshole.

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      • the_q@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Alright then.

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• DJDarren@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As someone who uses and enjoys a MacBook, but who has recently moved away from iOS; one of the biggest problems I have with tech right now is how much ALL of the companies cripple their products so as to not cannibalise another. And I think Apple are the worst for it.

  I have a 6th gen iPad mini. It’s form factor is perfect for hand held reading, social media, and the like. If I could plug it into a monitor and use Stage Manager to carry out light computing tasks it would be perfect. But Apple decided it simply wasn’t powerful enough, so didn’t enable it. It absolutely could do that, but that would have been one less selling point for the Airs and Pros. So Apple restricted it.

  I’m old enough to remember when you’d buy computing stuff that had no restrictions beyond what it was physically capable of. You could buy a shitty graphics card and you could play a game, but if the card wasn’t up to the task it would run like crap. There are games and apps you literally cannot buy for lower end models of Apple devices. If you’ve already bought it on a device that can run it, it’s not available to another that can’t.

  All so they can maintain their air of quality.

  Fuck Apple. They make great hardware, but they’re run by cunts.

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  • the_q@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You get it. Apple fans, which by the way I think it’s stupid to be a fan of a product/company, can’t admit that the devices they buy and the company that makes them have flaws. They view the marketing as objective truths when the objective truth is Apple is first and foremost a very profitable company and those profits matter above everything else. They aren’t a “good” company and will follow the path that leads them to profits. Taking a single chip and making 30 devices that all do different things is proof of that.

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• just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Exactly. Made similar comment, but people really need to know.

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• shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yep, you could use your iPad as your primary device if Apple would let you, but they’re never gonna let it run OSX

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  • Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Have you used a Surface Pro? It’s a terrible tablet and a terrible laptop. Thats what the iPad would be if it ran MacOS. Also the battery life would be horrendous. Maybe as an option or something but if it’s not gonna be used by a significant chunk of usersApple is not going to spend time on it. People online are not representative of the market.

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    • MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yep. They don’t understand how hardware and software are interconnected, yet love to call us fanboys and zealots if we don’t bash Apple from the start.

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• MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think it’s hilarious that people will see an iPhone, iPad and Macbook and think the only thing that’s different about them is the software. Any mental restriction is manufactured.

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• rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I use my iPad with a keyboard/touchpad as my primary fuck-around-the-house computer streaming my windows pc and MacBook, there’s obviously no reason an iPad couldn’t be running those OSes natively. That said I don’t really need for iPad os to be more in the way

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  • baronvonj@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I would have absolutely bought an iPad instead of a Surface Pro if I could run desktop MacOS applications on it when docked to desktop peripherals. I want one single convergent device for tablet and desktop.

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    • rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah my MacBook is a workhorse, the kind of absurd one that actually does need to not be a tablet, but the MacBook Air and an iPad with a magic keyboard are only different in exceptionally arbitrary ways (and the iPad would be way more convenient with its touch screen, pencil support and modularity).

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• ilmagico@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t think a macbook can fit in my pocket … and I don’t think the (virtual) keyboard on an iphone is a “manufactured restriction” compared to a macbook

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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    A small box you can stick into 3 different cases, one looking like a laptop, another like a tablet and another like a phone, can.

    Or a phone you stick into the former two, like a dock station. One could do this with Ubuntu Phone, sadly they failed.

    One can argue that the case of a MacBook and its screen and the keyboard account for much of its cost, but I think the fact itself that it’s a single device with different UIs would make many situations more convenient. No need to synchronize files - it’s already the same storage medium. No need to charge 3 separate devices. No need to stop your work when switching.

    And yeah, I still think the “computer” part costs a lot.

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    • MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It has been done before. It was deemed impractical.

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      • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Has been done before by whom and for what?

        Say, the particular case could have been a failure because of Android not being a very good desktop OS, or the hardware being too weak. I can’t think of a precedent though, even such.

        Deemed impractical by whom and for what?

        Say, if it was a braindead monkey or an Apple fanboy, then irrelevant.

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  • MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Either they are idiots, or they are dumb AI bots…

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