| Apple makes some great hardware and software. But here are things I think they drag their feet on: 1. iPhone on Lightning. USB-C is everywhere now, the only charging port on every MacBook for years, and on iPad Pro. 2. macOS not on iPad Pro. M2 processor is pointless, but they price the iPad Pro as though the M2 would benefit you... somehow. 3. you pretty much have to jailbreak iOS and iPadOS to compile real code (not Playgrounds), or to do your own things on hardware that you... own. For each of the above there are obvious monetary reasons not to make progress. 1. MFI lock in, licensing fees. 2. if iPad Pro could run macOS, there would (rightfully) be a lot of "lost" MacBook Air sales 3. if people could write real code on an iPad (or use "real" tools like XCode or Visual Studio Code, or just about ANY IDE), lot of "lost" Mac sales I would like to think that if Apple reversed course on their foot-dragging, they would actually gain a much wider market share, making up for any lost sales. Also, people would not think twice when a new iPad with M3 would be announced. As for myself (and I suspect a growing number of tech people), I refuse to spend one red cent, precisely because I refuse to reward this kind of behaviour. |