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by threeseed 456 days ago
I read it and don't understand it at all.

He's bought something whose limitations and target demographic are well known.

And then complaining when he hits one of those limitations.
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raydev 456 days ago
You've never bought anything you knew could be improved?
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matwood 456 days ago
To paraphrase MKBHD, only buy devices for the features they have right now. Otherwise you will often be disappointed.
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raydev 452 days ago
That's independent of wanting obvious limitations removed from a device that is already otherwise useful for you.
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frosting1337 456 days ago
He's complaining because Apple of the year have started to blur the line between a personal computer and a device that you can personally compute on.
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idle_zealot 456 days ago
The infuriating thing is that a huge number of those limitations exist as a few bytes that Apple does not let you flip, somewhere in the OS's code or configuration.

It would be unreasonable to buy, say, a flip phone in 2007 and complain that it can't replace a graphics workstation. It didn't have the hardware for that workload. Today, it's the artificial nature of the limitations that make the device akin to a cage.

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threeseed 456 days ago
Yes because flipping those bits would make the iPad a Mac.

And the whole point of an iPad is that you have a simple and consistent experience.

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stickmunch 456 days ago
I don't recall which WWDC it was.. They had a slide with the largest text they ever used.

The question was "will ipadOS and macOS merge?

"NO"

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stickmunch 456 days ago
Found it.

it was iOS and macOS but still...

https://youtu.be/DOYikXbC6Fs

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Dylan16807 456 days ago
For a phone, you really do want a different interface. (unless you're tethering it) That's much more justifiable.
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armada651 456 days ago
Because that would either mean locking down MacOS or opening up iOS. Apple would love to lock down MacOS, but it'd be incredibly bad press to admit to that publicly.
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jvan 456 days ago
>a simple and consistent experience

Has that not been Apple's entire marketing thrust since 1984?

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idle_zealot 455 days ago
It's fine that Apple wants to ship with those bits unflipped. What's unreasonable is that Apple stops you from flipping them.
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