{"id":17597,"date":"2017-04-03T14:05:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T18:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=17597"},"modified":"2017-04-03T14:05:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T18:05:01","slug":"the-ipad-turnaround-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/03\/the-ipad-turnaround-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"The iPad Turnaround Is Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mondaynote.com\/the-ipad-turnaround-is-coming-6d04747b215b\">Jean-Louis Gass&eacute;e<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gassee\/status\/848705714373640193\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mondaynote.com\/the-ipad-turnaround-is-coming-6d04747b215b\">\n<p>At the time, it sounded like a stream-of-consciousness ventilation that belied a hesitant inner monologue. Seven years later, we see how prophetic it was. We all know what a PC is for, and we &ldquo;get&rdquo; smartphones&#8230;but we&rsquo;re still debating what an iPad wants to be. Is it a PC replacement or just a media consumption device? Is it for knowledge workers, or couch surfers, or artists, or students&#8230; That we ask these questions points to an abundance of riches, but our culture needs certainty, it demands sharp taxonomies.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>This leads us to an easy guess for future iPad Pros. We&rsquo;re likely to see linear hardware and software improvements (keyboard, screen, stylus, more independent windows&#8230;), plus others we can&rsquo;t think of immersed, as we often are, in derivative thought.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I ought to stick to predicting the past, but there too many signs pointing to more muscular iPads taking business away from conventional PCs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To an extent, perhaps, but I think more than linear improvements would be needed for the iPad to become what Tim Cook thinks of it as.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/invalidname\/status\/848723253673828354\">Chris Adamson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/invalidname\/status\/848723253673828354\"><p>So where is the software of consequence for iPad? And who, given App Store economic realities, can afford to write it?<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean-Louis Gass&eacute;e (tweet): At the time, it sounded like a stream-of-consciousness ventilation that belied a hesitant inner monologue. Seven years later, we see how prophetic it was. We all know what a PC is for, and we &ldquo;get&rdquo; smartphones&#8230;but we&rsquo;re still debating what an iPad wants to be. Is it a PC replacement or just [&hellip;]<\/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":[31,1380,145],"class_list":["post-17597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-ios-10","tag-ipad"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17597","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=17597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17598,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17597\/revisions\/17598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}