[empthought]

Tim Cook's comments about people using iPad Pros where they might have used notebooks before have precisely zero to do with either UI convergence or the long-term prospects for OS X.

> Just an aside: what a load of absolute horseshit. Just another example of how relentlessly people fall in line with the Apple party line on experience even as experts in UX and UI say, "They are doing nearly everything wrong."

So are you saying that they're lying about having done ergonomic research? Also, just like your "indications" comment, this is utterly unsubstantiated. Which experts? What research have they done?

> I reach up from a keyboard to a touch surface every day, and it was a revelation when I finally could.

How could that possibly be comfortable, if your display is at the recommended 25ish inch distance from your eyes and at eye level? Did you notice we're talking about "on a desktop scenario" and not a notebook?

> It's not like I've been in charge of shipping successful, highly featured and widely acclaimed iOS apps... What do I know?

Certainly not Apple's long-term plans for OS X.

[KirinDave]

If Tim Cook's comments I sourced about how iPad Pros can be a laptop replacement are not relevant to my original post, but your lifting of his quotes on the same subject are? Why was Schiller's unsubstantiated quotes about ergonomics relevant?

The rules you have set up for this debate are pretty one sided. Shouldn't you at least pretend to listen?

[empthought]

The comments I quoted were directly related to "UI convergence," which was featured among your bogus "indications."

Assessing the relative value of iPad Pro vs. a notebook to different market segments is not related to UI convergence at all.

The rules are simple: claims should be substantiated. I have refuted some of your claims with direct on-topic quotes from Apple execs. All you've tried is insinuation, complaint, and appeal to authority (nameless "experts," and yourself, comically enough).