Soli

MacPro said:

Perhaps this is in anticipation of 5G interconnectivity and they will showcase a wide range of products from refrigerators to smartphones, all made by Samsung all communicating.  That's something Apple won't be able to do as easily.  

If they stock their store with large items like home applicancs I think they’ll fail. Those items are large, dont sell in great numbers, aren’t a major draw like CE, and would have logisticsl issues in a typical store like Apple uses.

i can see Samsung noting they have TV and home appliances, but I’d wager the focus will be on smartphones, headphones, tablets, PCs, and other CE.

canukstorm said:

macxpress said:

tht said:

In a lot of ways, perhaps Jobs vision or market segmentation for the iPad, a device that sits in between a smartphone and laptop, became more of a ball and chain than a computer for everyone. Hard to explain why they limited the functionality of iPads for so long, and still are going a snails pace.

They should have sprinted head long into having iPads do everything a computer do. instead of it being an iOS device for a 10” display, it should have been iPadOS, capable of doing everything a computer can do. Mind that I’m all in with using an iPad flat on a table like a piece paper. Hardware keyboard support is nice, but it shouldn’t be advertised with it.

So basically you want macOS on an iPad...that doesn't work and Apple has explained this many times. Seems like people just don't want to listen. Just look at the Surface Tablet. Yeah Microsoft is selling some and sales to go up sometimes, but as @Soli said, they don't have anywhere near the marketshare of iPad and that trend continues. So I think the market has decided what works best. 

"So basically you want macOS on an iPad"

That is not what that person said.

It absolutely is. If you say you want a car that can do everything a speedboat can do then you don't want a car that is designed to be a great car no matter how much you argue that you don't want a speedboat. You can't have it both ways and he clearly stated that it wants it to do everything a PC can do.

Now, if one were to say that they wish the iPad has certain features that are available on MacOS then that's a very different argument. For example, if I said that I wish that the iPad offered a dual OS GUI (à la iOS for iPhone with CarPlay OS when connected to an applicable automobile) for a desktop-like experience when connected to an external monitor with a mouse and keyboard then that's a very different discussion because it's specific and in no way implies some ridiculous "everything" qualifier.


PS: You can't even use the "everything" statement when you're talking about PCs covering a span of years. I want more control over my internal storage in my MBP and I want better security and protection for my data. I could've kept my old MBP but I leaned toward better security so the T2-chip in my new MBP is what I settled on. I can't have it both ways. The same goes for all sorts of components. Do I want a better display and faster Mac or do I want cheaper and easier components if I need to repair it? How about faster USB ports over an abundance of USB accessories? Would I like a serial port instead of adapters and buggy drivers for connecting to old routers or do I want to just keep using a laptop so antiquated that it still has a serial port? We make these decisions all the time and this will not change for technology. 

Dudoji87 said:

Soli said:

Along those lines I hear Android users say that Android and Samsung Pay work in places that Apple Pay doesn't and yet I've seen no evidence of any payment processors artificially blocking NFC-based payments from an Apple device. 

Samsung pay works with 99.9999% of places that accept credit cards, whether it's a small bookstore, flowershop, gas station, food truck, barber, etc... Samsung Pay reads off the magnetic strip. So yes, those Android users are absolutely correct.

That's MST, not NFC. It's a very different technology and is less secure despite what Samsung would have you believe. But you're technically correct since Samsung uses the same term to refer to their LoopPay-based acquisition as their NFC-based Apple copy and they surely don't know the difference and clearly don't care about personal security if they're using a Samsung device.

You are aware that when payment processors say no swipe cards allowed—only chip cards and wireless transactions—that is extends to MST, right? Being wireless to the magnetic reader doesn't make it NFC. LoopPay is a dead end in every conceivable way.

There needs to be more awareness of the direct safety features of the Apple Watch. If her phone had been out of reach she still could've called 9-1-1 by long-holding the side button and sliding the Emergency SOS button over. Maps is also available and with a few taps on the screen will zoom in as relatively close as possible as on the iPhone.

bitmod said:

“The feature is available in the United States after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared it for sale, making the smartwatch the first consumer device to do so without requiring medical review.”

 Alivecore has the Kardia ECG that works very well and was approved by medical review. I imagine if one was truly concerned about their heart they would go with this device that is far more accurate, vastly less expensive, integrated with real-time medical review by doctors, or transmitted to you own. Even comes with a clip to fit to your smartphone. https://www.alivecor.com
They also support the iwatch.

 The watch probably isn’t accurate enough to pass medical review - thus the legal tie-up in other countries, not so much for the feature, but the ‘marketing’ aspect of it being a medical device. Neither are as good as an 8 point lead at a hospital - but can indicate something isn’t right with rhythm.

"without requiring medical review"? What the what what?!

Class I and II get FDA clearance. Class III gets approval. Both clearance and approval are synonyms in English, but in reference to the FDA and their device classes they have very specific meanings. They are all reviewed for their medical claims. There is no perfunctory rubber-stamp because Apple paid someone off.

AliveCor's KardiaBand looks to be a Class II device, too.

• https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf17/K171816.pdf (185KB, PDF)