It’s an iPad forum. The discussion is on iPads. Yet you feel compelled to come here to ‘defend’ your legacy workflows? Im not making blanket statements. I’m stating facts. For most of the world an android phone is their computer.
Mac sales for Apple are 8% of all sales. There are millions of people doing without a MacBook just fine.
Im sorry that hurts your feelings.
Feelings not hurt, I just speak frankly. Sorry if I appear aggressive, I don’t intend to be.
Yes, it’s a forum. People are free to state their opinions. But I will counter anyone who states their opinion as fact. Anyone who does so on a public forum needs to be ready to defend their statements.
Your first blanket statement/opinion stated as fact was:
”If you need a laptop, you are either doing a legacy workflow, 3D rendering, or video production work.”
Blanket statements are dangerous because though there can be many counterexamples that prove it false, all you really need is one. I am one. As I alluded to, my workflow is on a laptop (among other devices including a desktop, an iPad, and an iPhone), is not one of your exceptions, and cannot be done as effectively on a non-laptop such as an iPad or Chromebook due to their nature (of which I am knowledgeable). Also, again, I don’t believe in the term “legacy” workflow. Anything that implies that one workflow is better than another based on anything other than results is at best useless, and at worst stifles actual results. And though I believe this is true, it is an opinion because it is not proven. Feel free to disagree with your own opinion or prove me wrong with fact.
Your second blanket statement/opinion stated as fact was:
“For most of the world an android phone is their computer.”
If you would have said that most of the world
owns an Android phone, that would have been a fact. But, assuming you’re staying on the topic of workflows, you went a big step further and implied that most of the world
uses their Android phone as their work computer instead of a Mac or PC. That’s not a fact.
The only fact you stated so far, besides your own anecdotal evidence, was the Mac sales statistic.
But I’m not entirely clear on why you brought up this statistic, nor the Android phone argument. They seem to support a somewhat contradictory idea to what you said before:
The problem is Legacy processes: “denoting or relating to software or hardware that has been superseded but is difficult to replace because of its wide use.”
Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems like you said that laptops are old inferior workflows but are difficult to replace because they are widely used—but your supposed supporting evidence is that laptops are not widely used? I’m confused on which you’re trying to say.
Regardless, however, all that the lower Mac sales percentage means is that people are buying a lot more iPhones, Airpods, etc than Macs; it does not prove that people are not using laptops for work. Just like the fact that there are a lot more iPhones in landfills than Macs does not prove that people have no use for iPhones.
And regardless to that, I don’t think the point is even to prove what the majority use. What we’re really talking about is what is the better workflow. Again, my position is that the better workflow cannot be generalized (again, opinion).
Again, opinions are fine, but statements of fact cannot be based on anecdotal and merely suggestive evidence.
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