blargh4 wrote:The point about the OS holding back the hardware seems pretty clear. The ipad pro is a very nice piece of hardware. It'd be great if I could replace my laptop with it and, say, plug it into a dock to turn it into a proper computer I can do real work on. In theory, there's no real reason you couldn't. But given the limitations of iOS, I can't, so for my use cases it remains a luxury e-reader.
Then how would it be any different than the laptop you have
now?Wouldn't it just be the laptop you have
then?derfunk wrote:Great hardware trapped behind a limited OS, presumably.
OK, so *POOF* it isn't limited anymore. Now you just have a laptop, which isn't actually faster than current laptops. Just very competitive in performance, evidently.
Meanwhile, in reality, Apple isn't even listing unit sales anymore (cause they ain't going up). They're clearly going for services and software sales--I'm sure, JUST SURE, that they're getting ready to drop their ~30% cut of all software etc.... sales on the thing.
Like, those "limitations" ain't going away folks.