Steve Troughton-SmithiPad has probably had the most dramatic shift of all of Apple's platforms, since its inception. It began as doing very few things to a very high quality, but now it does almost everything, badly. I hope history finds it to have been more than just an incubator for Apple's Mac silicon during the wayward years
People telling me the iPad is the best ‘light computing’ platform are kinda proving my point. It’s not called iPad Light (and it’s not priced like one either). The Mac is a great light computing platform too, but it also does everything else too. iPad has just never lived up to its potential, and 14 years in I think it’s safe to say never will
Konrad Kołakowski@stroughtonsmith Apple still might have a chance though - but it needs a will from them!
Hardware is here - only software is the issue, they could really "fix" most of the most important roadblocks within one OS update cycle 🤷♂️ They just don't want to.
I remember when they introduced Face ID for iPads Pro in 2018 - I thought: "ok, so this time we'll REALLY add multiple users support and it'll be AWESOME experience!”
It was 6 years ago... 👴