In a few years time every computer will be a tablet and even the keyboard whiners will use them (albeit using a wireless keyboard).
So software for developers, artists and everyone else must run on it to be useful and key components such as a Unix command shell must be available.
That makes the least sense of anything. Tablets are great for some things. They're otherwise limited, and it's unlikely that you're going to see them really be able to work with all necessary peripherals as well as drive all older hardware out of the market within a few years. As for Xcode, it's not fun to use an IDE on a small screen. It's too easy to miss typos and things when scrolling through text, and your IDE will not always flag things that produce undesirable behavior.
That makes the least sense of anything. Tablets are great for some things. They're otherwise limited, and it's unlikely that you're going to see them really be able to work with all necessary peripherals as well as drive all older hardware out of the market within a few years. As for Xcode, it's not fun to use an IDE on a small screen. It's too easy to miss typos and things when scrolling through text, and your IDE will not always flag things that produce undesirable behavior.
It does make a lot of sense, what limitations are you talking about?
Peripherals are connected via a few hardware busses (USB, Thunderbolt), but connect mainly via Bluetooth and Wifi.
Thats not a problem at all for an iPad.
The small screen is not a problem when its 12 or 13 inch as I stated earlier.
You must of course use one of iOS most powerful features 'pinch and zoom'.
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It does make a lot of sense, what limitations are you talking about?
Peripherals are connected via a few hardware busses (USB, Thunderbolt), but connect mainly via Bluetooth and Wifi.
Thats not a problem at all for an iPad.
The small screen is not a problem when its 12 or 13 inch as I stated earlier.
You must of course use one of iOS most powerful features 'pinch and zoom'.
As I said before its a no brainer.
I've never heard of anyone using bluetooth or wifi to access files needed to compile a program. I don't actually own an iPad at the moment, but I have used them. I wouldn't personally enjoy trying to scroll through a larger program on that screen size.Your options for typing are to allocate a portion of the screen to bring up a virtual keyboard or if you used an external one you would still have to go back to the screen to do that pinch to zoom. It sounds awful (to me) for general use even at 12 to 13". I would still download it, but I wouldn't go through significant revisions on that. It wouldn't be as bad if you were just talking about reviewing code where a keyboard isn't really required and the entire screen can be devoted to code, especially if they came up with a good method to traverse the project quickly in iOS. I don't think it's about competition though. The idevices are their biggest success, so I think they may be more likely to allow cannibalization of the Macs there than they are within the Mac lineup itself.
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No it won't.
It's a bit of a no brainer.
In a few years time every computer will be a tablet and even the keyboard whiners will use them (albeit using a wireless keyboard).
So software for developers, artists and everyone else must run on it to be useful and key components such as a Unix command shell must be available.
That makes the least sense of anything. Tablets are great for some things. They're otherwise limited, and it's unlikely that you're going to see them really be able to work with all necessary peripherals as well as drive all older hardware out of the market within a few years. As for Xcode, it's not fun to use an IDE on a small screen. It's too easy to miss typos and things when scrolling through text, and your IDE will not always flag things that produce undesirable behavior.
Good. So where's the xMac?
It’s the first 600 of those thousand ‘Nos’ they talk about so often.
That makes the least sense of anything. Tablets are great for some things. They're otherwise limited, and it's unlikely that you're going to see them really be able to work with all necessary peripherals as well as drive all older hardware out of the market within a few years. As for Xcode, it's not fun to use an IDE on a small screen. It's too easy to miss typos and things when scrolling through text, and your IDE will not always flag things that produce undesirable behavior.
It does make a lot of sense, what limitations are you talking about?
Peripherals are connected via a few hardware busses (USB, Thunderbolt), but connect mainly via Bluetooth and Wifi.
Thats not a problem at all for an iPad.
The small screen is not a problem when its 12 or 13 inch as I stated earlier.
You must of course use one of iOS most powerful features 'pinch and zoom'.
As I said before its a no brainer.
With a zero resale value when you want to sell it.Apple has a great resale value.
It does make a lot of sense, what limitations are you talking about?
Peripherals are connected via a few hardware busses (USB, Thunderbolt), but connect mainly via Bluetooth and Wifi.
Thats not a problem at all for an iPad.
The small screen is not a problem when its 12 or 13 inch as I stated earlier.
You must of course use one of iOS most powerful features 'pinch and zoom'.
As I said before its a no brainer.
I've never heard of anyone using bluetooth or wifi to access files needed to compile a program. I don't actually own an iPad at the moment, but I have used them. I wouldn't personally enjoy trying to scroll through a larger program on that screen size.Your options for typing are to allocate a portion of the screen to bring up a virtual keyboard or if you used an external one you would still have to go back to the screen to do that pinch to zoom. It sounds awful (to me) for general use even at 12 to 13". I would still download it, but I wouldn't go through significant revisions on that. It wouldn't be as bad if you were just talking about reviewing code where a keyboard isn't really required and the entire screen can be devoted to code, especially if they came up with a good method to traverse the project quickly in iOS. I don't think it's about competition though. The idevices are their biggest success, so I think they may be more likely to allow cannibalization of the Macs there than they are within the Mac lineup itself.
Save your eye sight and buy a bigger screen many eye doctors have told me that.The i pad will ruin your eyes eventually by using it all the time.
You’d think that in the 38 years that personal computers have had screens we would have seen any instances of this crop up already.