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
Guy Sedai@stroughtonsmith I think my issue was more with your quote “It began as doing very few things to a very high quality, but now it does almost everything, badly.” It still does everything well that it did well at its inception, but now also has a ton more features/capabilities (i.e. significantly better displays/speakers, multitasking support, pencil/keyboard/trackpad/mouse support, cellular, USB C/peripheral support, resizable windows, etc. But I do agree it has not lived up to its potential.
amonduin@guysedai @stroughtonsmith I think we're finally back to where we were at the iPads first launch. It took years and years to recover from the iOS7 reset in which sooo many Apps got destroyed, functionality removed or hidden, the iPad in those first few years of iOS7 design were the years where some apps really were just blown up phone apps. I think the past few years things are back to where they should have been with the iPad apps properly taking advantage of the screen size again.