Every Apple review I read reminds me of Russians doing videos begging Putin for things that he definitely won't ever care about.
>First, as I’ve said multiple times, I love my iPad and want the platform to get better. If you care about something or someone, sometimes you have to tell them what’s wrong in order to improve and find a new path forward. I hope this story can serve as a reference for those with the power to steer iPadOS in a different direction in the future.
Then goes on to list a million reasons that it sucks, and has sucked for the last 12 years!
But Apple isn't a dictator and you don't have to stay with them.
If it doesn't do what you want, buy what does.
Or just don't buy a product that you know won't do what you want.
As an aside, both my Android phone from 5 years ago, and my Android tablet, do everything that he complains about his expensive ipad not doing (the only thing I'm not sure about is recording Skype calls).
That's what has been promised for 2024 Aug/Sep shipping devices, including mainline Linux support and Arm SystemReady UEFI booting of any compliant Arm distro, on laptops and/or tablets from Microsoft, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo and more.
Pricing is an open question, but even if the initial devices are "premium" due to post-IPO Arm licensing tax on Qualcomm, competition between multiple PC vendors and Apple will be good for everyone
In a year or two, hopefully that means Framework Arm devices with power and performance >= early Apple Silicon devices.
That will never happen, at least not at a scale that is a sustainable business, hence why after Netbooks, all OEMs went with ChromeOS and Android instead.
Plenty of commercial factors that the community isn't willing to compromise on, hence we only get those products that only kind of work, for tech savy communities.
The iPad’s hardware is so far beyond every other tablet ever made that it isn’t really reasonable to categorize it as a “tablet”: it’s an iPad. It’s a horse of a different color.
If you want an iPad, only Apple sells them. If you want a tablet (a different class of device that is nowhere near as useful or high quality as an iPad) then yes, you can buy them from other manufacturers.
Nobody but nobody is making hardware on the level of the current iPhones, iPads, and Macbooks. It’s not even remotely close. I bought a top of the line Dell “ultrabook” not long ago and half of the functionality felt like I had traveled back in time to the 90s.
Not sure what you're talking about here. Seems like the Apple reality distortion ignorance field.
Lol, the gatekeeping of your post to say the iPad is not a tablet.
All I want in a tablet is a nice screen, fast CPU, and quick switching between apps.
I want those things OP complained about in the article to work (background apps/multitasking/background audio etc).
For me the tablet is a media consumption device. I write notes in Obsidian a tiny bit, but I want a keyboard to do any real work. I can use a bluetooth keyboard if I want.
I have no complaints about my tablet now. It even has a headphone jack.
I can put youtube (revanced, adblocked and sponsorblocked) on a split screen with reddit below.
I can use Firefox with adblock.
I can ssh and vnc to my servers.
I auto-sync files with my own servers using Syncthing.
iPad can't do those things.
What magic features does an iPad have? A pen? The absolute worst input method imaginable.
I had a pen on my OG Samsung Galaxy Note from 2011, and I never used it. Also on the Note 3, also never used that, because Pens suck.
More cameras I won't use? No thanks. I have very good cameras on my phone that is always with me, and a dedicated mirrorless for when I care to take really good photos.
I recognize that I'm obviously not the target market for iPad Pro - I don't want to hold a screen that big while sitting on the couch.
But from reading your post, the market for iPad Pro appears to be people ignorant enough to be deluded that it's so different and somehow "better quality" than any other tablet.
Then you read the actual article to see exactly how deluded they are.
IpadOS sounds like a shit show.
Literally the only thing Apple has that I am somewhat jealous of is battery efficiency of the fanless macbooks.
I want a fanless laptop (am I even permitted to call a macbook a laptop when it's so clearly superior to your Dell laptop? lol), but I won't suffer Apple to get one.
I don't even use my laptop except if I take it when I go away on holidays. But it's not in any way lower quality than macbooks.
Linux/Windows laptops should be fanless soon I hope.
The only quality Apple has over other manufacturers is the quality of their marketing.
> All I want in a tablet is a nice screen, fast CPU, and quick switching between apps.
> What magic features does an iPad have?
> I am somewhat jealous of is battery efficiency of the fanless macbooks.
I want good battery efficiency on my tablets as well, and I doubt any Android tablet could match that. It's a tablet for god's sake, the whole point is to not have to tether it to a power outlet for any prolonged duration of work.
>First, as I’ve said multiple times, I love my iPad and want the platform to get better. If you care about something or someone, sometimes you have to tell them what’s wrong in order to improve and find a new path forward. I hope this story can serve as a reference for those with the power to steer iPadOS in a different direction in the future.
Then goes on to list a million reasons that it sucks, and has sucked for the last 12 years!
But Apple isn't a dictator and you don't have to stay with them.
If it doesn't do what you want, buy what does.
Or just don't buy a product that you know won't do what you want.
As an aside, both my Android phone from 5 years ago, and my Android tablet, do everything that he complains about his expensive ipad not doing (the only thing I'm not sure about is recording Skype calls).