[dahfizz]

I am not personally a fan of Apple products for exactly this reason. I think the user experience on all their products (iphone, ipad, mac) is not good out of the box and is really restricting in what you can do.

But, I still believe Apple is trying to make the best products they can. Their design philosophy is heavily opinionated, and therefore a lot of people don't like it. Google's core mission is to slurp up user data & sell ads, and they are willing to make their products worse for the user to satisfy that goal. I don't think Apple would intentionally make a product worse to boost some short term metrics in that same way.

> why do you think that the ipad (with the same processor as the laptop) has not gotten more capable over the years?

I think Apple has consistently shown that they don't really care about power users. Why can't I snap windows on a mac? Why can't I customize the launcher on an iphone? Apple doesn't care about that use case. They stuck an m1 into the ipad because they already make them and its a super power efficient chip; they still have the same product vision for the ipad.

> Make no mistake, Apple is no paragon of virtue here.

Certainly, no company is virtuous. I think its more about incentives. Apple is incentivized to make good products and maintain their brand. Google is incentivized to sell as many ads as possible.