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
Matt Smith@stroughtonsmith disagree. A) light computing isn’t just about price. B) You can get an iPad for less than half the cost of a Mac.
For casual computer users an iPad does pretty much everything they need to. My 70 yo father would rather spend £1k on an iPad vs any computer for the same money because of its ’lightness’. There are plenty of people who don’t need the complexity of a Mac, including its hardware complexity.
MarkV@mttsmth @stroughtonsmith I think the ship on saying iPad was only ever intended for media consumption and “light” couch computing sailed when Apple decided to launch an “iPad Pro” and market it as a computer replacement for the next gen (“what’s a computer?”).
Apple themselves made promises that the product simply hasn’t lived up to. Retroactively saying it was never supposed to be a touch-first productivity device is, in my opinion, ignoring Apple’s own messaging about their product.
@markv @stroughtonsmith they do sell just the iPad, and a lot of people use that in pretty much the identical way as SJ demoed it on its launch.
I’m not ignoring how Apple market a segment of the product line. I have owned every 12.9” iPad and do use it as my main computer attached to a Studio Display.
Who was retroactively saying it’s touch first?