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  • Editorial: The future of Steve Jobs' iPad vision for Post-PC computing

    BizTravelerBizTraveler
    If Apple wants to sell a significantly larger number of iPads, it only needs to do two things to iOS: implement a file system and give mouse capabilities. (After all - it was Apple that said your hands belong on the keyboard when defending the MacBook Pro's touch bar. It's hypocritical to call the iPad Pro a "Super Computer" and not apply that same logic). 

    But Apple won't do that because they're more concerned with revenue from their laptops than they are in bringing a true solution that customers want. 

    So I bought a Surface and am loving it (you know - that whole "toaster/refrigerator hybrid Cook said doesn't work). And if Apple ever does make those two changes to iOS I'll be the first to come back. But as it stands now it's a real pain to even download stock video from the Internet to an iPad for a video project - something I do with ease on my Surface daily. 

    So much for the iPad Pro being a "super computer."
    GeorgeBMack2kw

  • Editorial: The future of Steve Jobs' iPad vision for Post-PC computing, part 2

    BizTravelerBizTraveler
    Well-written article - until the last line. Apple has indeed marketed iPads as a computer. Their website page for the iPad Pro even leads with "Super. Computer." - not as some other, special "post-PC device" as the author suggests. 

    With that said - a basic file system and a mouse would go a long ways towards dramatically increasing the capabilities of the iPad in terms of production and ease of use. 

    The ONLY reason that hasn't happened is because Apple doesn't want its iPads directly competing against its laptops. 

    Anyone else think differently about why they don't implement these two ideas?
    GeorgeBMac