you can’t buy an iPad without a touchscreen
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woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoThe MacBook doesn’t have a touchscreen. It cancels the keyboard cost out.
They don’t even put touch ID on the entry model.
Aatube@thriv.social 2 weeks ago
Zangoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ok but if you want to do actual work on it then these things absolutely do not cancel each other out because you have to spend $270 on a keyboard/trackpad regardless, and now have to use a clunky touchscreen on your 13 inch tablet half the time.
Yes, the M4 is much faster and it is probably only stupid product segmentation keeping it on the iPad. But the reality is, iOS/iPadOS puts OS-level limits on how much you can even take advantage of that hardware even if there is an iOS app for the thing you want to do
woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s Apple tax, not manufacturing cost. MacBook replacement keyboards sell for 10 dollars on Aliexpress.
Zangoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s great but hardware doesn’t exist in a vacuum. With an ecosystem as locked-down as an iPad’s you can’t just ignore the software. It’s not like you’ll ever be able to uninstall it because it’s intentionally locked down, unlike a macbook which allows installing apps and even modifying the bootloader to boot into a different OS.