The difference is that if e.g. the common teacher in europe has to use a cloud platform which acts in accordance with the european data protection laws, iCloud and all related services are “out”.
Never the less is iCloud probably on average the most used cloud platform in the group of european iPad users, isn’t it?
I like to propose that Apple doesn’t cater towards average. 😁
Their decisions are motivated by market research plus additional aspects and convictions - this is the reason for model differentiation in all Apple hardware lines actually IMHO - implementations of the least common denominator according to their market research¹
Did you never ask yourself “why is it, that all iPads offer battery capacities that independent of the model provide up to 10 hours of surfing the web on Wi-Fi or watching video”? Every year… every model line.
I agree that for example on average most iPad users will probably use Apple Mail, its for most people who decide or have to use an iPad the included solution.
Still there are hundreds of thousand iPads user who do not use mail - for whatever reason. And not because they are special, but because there are members of a group in which on average nobody uses Apple’s Mail.
Intrestingly enough this correlates not only with e.g. age groups but with the geographical location - on all kinds of scales:
seems like Apple’s Messages is a thing in the US, but members of various european countries will roll their eyes and tell you to install Whatsapp if you want to participate in their exchanges - si fueris Romae etc.… 🤪
There are platforms which are used only by single nations or a group of nations sharing whatever, but on that level of course there isn’t anything “special” about it.
Yes, within your scenario these are special users.
If you view it on a different scale? They are not.
Still the question of this thread remains: could they do with one of the iPad models, or is a laptop the better solution? 😀
My insight into this lies far back and was mainly restricted to a part of the european hardware and the education group - but yes, Apple does their research. 🙂
We probably agree that for a large part of the population which represents potential tablet, laptop, or desktop users there are common interests they like to participate in, resulting in common requirements: Mail, Web, Entertainment, Social - to list a few.
I personally tend to think that for each of these common interest there is actually no average user. There is variance on various levels - which makes this an insignificant, shallow designator.
Therefore it makes indeed a practical difference wether you address common use or average use cases.
And to throw in an additional point of view: when associated with skill sets, “average” becomes often a deeply subjective assessment - in most cases it doesn’t carry any verifiable sensible information.
I mean, what does e.g. “the average Photoshop user” mean?
I like to make an educated guess here - the use of “the average iPad user” isn’t often applied in some sensible form either, is it?
It can be of course, for both.
¹plus something, to which Apple often refers publicly and internal to as Apple's DNA.
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