<story><title>That awkward moment when Apple mocked good hardware and poor people</title><url>https://www.techinasia.com/awkward-moment-apple-mocked-good-hardware-poor-people</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vbezhenar</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t imagine how I would replace my laptop with iPad. Some tasks are definitely doable: Web browsing, Mail processing, Music listening, Skype (though chatting on iPad is terrible because you have to switch around all the time, losing your focus, may be split apps might help, can&amp;#x27;t experience it, because my iPad have RAM like 15-year old PC).&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking for power user every activity on iPad is strictly worse. I can&amp;#x27;t easily download ZIP, unzip it, open some text file, edit it, send it via Mail. Probably I can do it with right apps, but it would require much more clicks or taps.&lt;p&gt;What I can&amp;#x27;t even imagine doing on iPad: using Intellij Idea, using XCode, using Google Chrome to debug and develop web apps, using image editors like Sketch and Pixelmator (I know that I can get some kind of image editing, but I don&amp;#x27;t think that I can do what I&amp;#x27;m doing on PC).&lt;p&gt;Now things I could theoretically do but probably can&amp;#x27;t, because of walled garden: using Terminal to embrace full Unix power, downloading files with BitTorrent, using BitCoin. Probably possible with Jailbreaking, I&amp;#x27;m not sure. Also I&amp;#x27;m not sure whether I could download some huge 20GB file and watch it using another app without duplicating (does iOS copy file when I open it with other app or just hardlink?).&lt;p&gt;And, of course, keyboard is necessary. Mouse would be useful too, but iPad doesn&amp;#x27;t support mouse, AFAIK.&lt;p&gt;So probably the only users who can easily migrate from PC to iPad are very casual users, who use their devices to browse web, chat and play simple games. There could be some professionals who work with iPads, it&amp;#x27;s theoretically possible, but I can&amp;#x27;t imagine anyone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zamalek</author><text>&amp;gt; [From the article] I don’t need a wholesale upgrade.&lt;p&gt;The newest component in my desktop PC is likely 3-4 years old. The entire machine is, obviously, a good deal more powerful than an iPad - it can drive the DK2 just fine, and Oculus have specifically called Apple out on performance.[1] You don&amp;#x27;t even need to participate in frequent piecewise upgrades to match or exceed the iPad.&lt;p&gt;What Schiller might be missing is that people are using their PC &lt;i&gt;in addition to&lt;/i&gt; an iPad. This is an strikingly obvious conclusion but doesn&amp;#x27;t fit the typical Apple marketing rhetoric.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;4&amp;#x2F;11159700&amp;#x2F;oculus-rift-mac-support-apple&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;4&amp;#x2F;11159700&amp;#x2F;oculus-rift-mac-su...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>That awkward moment when Apple mocked good hardware and poor people</title><url>https://www.techinasia.com/awkward-moment-apple-mocked-good-hardware-poor-people</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vbezhenar</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t imagine how I would replace my laptop with iPad. Some tasks are definitely doable: Web browsing, Mail processing, Music listening, Skype (though chatting on iPad is terrible because you have to switch around all the time, losing your focus, may be split apps might help, can&amp;#x27;t experience it, because my iPad have RAM like 15-year old PC).&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking for power user every activity on iPad is strictly worse. I can&amp;#x27;t easily download ZIP, unzip it, open some text file, edit it, send it via Mail. Probably I can do it with right apps, but it would require much more clicks or taps.&lt;p&gt;What I can&amp;#x27;t even imagine doing on iPad: using Intellij Idea, using XCode, using Google Chrome to debug and develop web apps, using image editors like Sketch and Pixelmator (I know that I can get some kind of image editing, but I don&amp;#x27;t think that I can do what I&amp;#x27;m doing on PC).&lt;p&gt;Now things I could theoretically do but probably can&amp;#x27;t, because of walled garden: using Terminal to embrace full Unix power, downloading files with BitTorrent, using BitCoin. Probably possible with Jailbreaking, I&amp;#x27;m not sure. Also I&amp;#x27;m not sure whether I could download some huge 20GB file and watch it using another app without duplicating (does iOS copy file when I open it with other app or just hardlink?).&lt;p&gt;And, of course, keyboard is necessary. Mouse would be useful too, but iPad doesn&amp;#x27;t support mouse, AFAIK.&lt;p&gt;So probably the only users who can easily migrate from PC to iPad are very casual users, who use their devices to browse web, chat and play simple games. There could be some professionals who work with iPads, it&amp;#x27;s theoretically possible, but I can&amp;#x27;t imagine anyone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>umanwizard</author><text>I think you have a really skewed picture of what most people use computers for.&lt;p&gt;The iPad isn&amp;#x27;t meant to replace a laptop for people like you, which is why Apple is still selling the mbp.</text></comment>