{"id":15516,"date":"2016-08-13T14:29:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T18:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=15516"},"modified":"2016-08-13T14:29:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T18:29:50","slug":"ipad-unfinished-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/13\/ipad-unfinished-business\/","title":{"rendered":"iPad Unfinished Business"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jean-Louis Gassée<\/a>:<\/p>\n

On the surface (pun unintended), Apple proffers the iPad Pro as a computer<\/em>. We don’t begrudge Apple its right to ‘performance bragging’: Witness Apple’s rightfully proud statements about its powerful homegrown Ax<\/em><\/a> line of processors and the impending A10 64-bit processors<\/a> that easily outperform Seymour Cray’s<\/a> supercomputers. But simply promoting the iPad to ‘computer’ avoids the real issue: Is the iPad Pro a PC replacement<\/em>? Can we toss out our laptops and move wholly to our iPads?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Dan Counsell<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The problem with the iPad is both hardware and software related. Anything work related you can do on an iPad can, in most cases be done faster on a Mac. No question.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

This is still one of the fundamental problems with having the iPad attached to a keyboard — when you need to interact with the screen, you have to raise your arm out in front of you to interact with apps, it’s cumbersome and gets tiring very quickly.<\/p>\n

iPads are great to use while you’re lounging on the couch. However, they are not so great to use for extended periods of time at a desk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Dean<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Remember when @tim_cook talked about android tablet apps being blown up phone apps<\/a>?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Tim Oliver<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The new Apple Store app on iPad is just the iPhone version blown up<\/a> to fit the screen. Come on…<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jean-Louis Gassée: On the surface (pun unintended), Apple proffers the iPad Pro as a computer. We don’t begrudge Apple its right to ‘performance bragging’: Witness Apple’s rightfully proud statements about its powerful homegrown Ax line of processors and the impending A10 64-bit processors that easily outperform Seymour Cray’s supercomputers. But simply promoting the iPad to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,1137,145,1269,30],"class_list":["post-15516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-ios-9","tag-ipad","tag-ipad-pro","tag-mac"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15517,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15516\/revisions\/15517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}