Why would the experience be disappointing? Mouse vs touch support is the only real difference atm. Win tablet mode sucks because it didn’t run full windows. Arm win sucks as well in terms of virtualization etc. Apple killed it w Rosetta 2. I own a win rt and still works, but so limited. IMO MBA will go the way of the dodo in 2gens.
At the BARE MIMIUM full screen display on an external monitor. IF they gave us that, a lot of the noise you are hearing now would go away. That alone is half way to a desktop replacement in a tablet form.
Design language, mostly. Touch works entirely different than a mouse cursor, click targets need to be considerably larger on a touch screen based device, contextual menus and drop down menus don’t make sense in a touch context, either. Plus, macOS is very much a legacy way of designing and structuring interactivity that doesn’t make sense on a device that doesn’t include a mouse by default. That’s the thing, an iPad bundled with a mouse is just a laptop with a virtual keyboard, while an iPad without a mouse by default is something else entirely. The iPad is increasingly a device that lets you use a keyboard, a mouse, a stylus, if it makes sense for your current task but not require you to carry them if you don’t need it for the task. Mac apps on iOS would require a mouse, they’re not designed for touch. If they were designed for touch, they would already be iPad apps. It seems what people on MacRumors seem to want is just a touch screen Mac (sans keyboard), but (despite liking Macs), I actually like that the iPad isn’t a Mac.
I’m a coder. I work with very large teams. The notion that efficient coding is done by folks zoned in at home is not applicable for all types of environments. When you have multiple engineers working on say a game engine and submitting and checking in code it does help to have those working on the same product physically accessible or within earshot. Not saying you can’t have conf or video calls going, but that just brings another layer.
Eh, as the owner of both a 2017 and 2020 iPad Pro, I’d say they’re extremely similar. The newer model is smaller, but Face ID sucks compared to the fingerprint sensor. User experience is exactly the same for me, except the added hassle of Face ID.
+1 full screen support and proper file management was all I was really after, thunderbolt port seems pointless with out these features. If Samsung can do this with inferior hardware, why can’t apple. Some better office apps would also be a bonus.
I do QA, and even we could stand to benefit from being co-located again. It’s so much easier to ask the person two desks over about something than it is to shoot them an IM or email that they might miss.
Agreed. I’ve been following every Apple event since 2010.
YES! when paying up to $2400 for a device marketed as a computer replacement, I would like it to have similar capabilities to a $999 MacBook Air!
Work from home is legitimately less productive for me as a developer/QA tester (I wear both hats). I can totally understand an environment like Apple taking some time to get up to speed with universal WFH. Coding isn’t burger flipping, after all.
tweaked version = with the ability to code and deploy iOS/iPadOS apps while offering almost complete Pencil support. +
