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kiltedgreen said:

mfryd said:

However, this is not a reason to prohibit running Mac OSX on an iPad.   Users should have a choice as to which OS they run.

I have nothing against the iPad OS.   It's a great solution for many (but not all) users.   Why not allow users to choose which OS they are running?    

The iPad OS can be the default, but please allow power users to install OSX.  iPad apps already work inside of Mac OSX, so no functionality is lost.  

An iPad with an M4 processor, 16GB RAM, 2TB SSD, Thunderbolt 3, and a Magic Keyboard Folio (Keyboard and trackpad) would make a damn fine portable Mac.

Please, just buy a MacBook if you want a “damn fine portable Mac”, it’s already here. I for one do not want my iPad running macOS - I’ll leave that to my Mac thanks.

Comments like this convince me that reading comprehension has become a lost skill in America. Pretty aggressive response considering he didn't say that you--or any iPad user--HAD to have their iPad running MacOS. What he said was: "The iPad OS can be the default, but please allow power users to install OSX." See? Not only do you not have to run MacOS on your iPad, you don't even have to install it! He would simply like that option for people who do want to install it. And your problem with this request, which would not affect you in the least, is WHAT exactly? I have suggested this as a possibility myself, since Apple Silicon can boot into either OS, and this kind of separate solution doesn't involve ANY compromise in either OS--no need to try and kludge a touchscreen into MacOS or complicate iPadOS--both OSes work exactly as they do now, which is why he specifies the need for a Magic Keyboard folio, because you'll need a keyboard and trackpad for MacOS. Of course, we all know why this will never happen: Apple wants to continue to sell us two devices, not one. It's also why they've resisted ease-of-use functionality in iPadOS (the files system, multitasking, etc) that would make it more of an easy laptop replacement for more people. It's really as simple as that. 

sflagel said:

The iPad should not be “as powerful as the Mac”; it should have been a different computing experience.  Now we even have menu items, towel thrown. 

Instead of a natural human experience using fingers, eyes, voice, and a pen, we have a substandard Mac with a detachable screen that you can scribble on. 

The “iPad experience” needed a lot more work annd imagination, and it would have turned into a useful magical third device. 

The world would beg to disagree with your assertion that the iPad has failed to turn into a useful third device. The iPad has been such a runaway success that it actually has no real competition in the tablet space. There's only iPad and everything else, most of which is unprofitable, forgettable or both. While I've never been a fan of iPadOS, I also don't confuse my personal opinion with how the product is performing in the marketplace. 

To a degree, Apple is damned if it does, damned if it doesn't. While I have sympathy for developers whose businesses get upended when Apple Sherlocks their app's functionality into the OS, surely no developer could be unaware--24 years after Sherlock--that this is always a risk. But the apps keep coming, so I assume that developers have made their peace with this possibility. 

Apple, unfortunately, will get criticized either way. When it Sherlocks apps into the OS, it's accused of being the 800 pound gorilla stomping on small businesses. And if Apple leaves it to consumers to either purchase or pay ongoing subscription fees (mostly the latter these days) for third party apps to provide these functionalities, then Apple's various OSes get criticized for being "behind" in features.   

tiredskills said:

F1 looks terrible.  Expensively terrible, but terrible nonetheless.  The idea that it is art in any meaningful sense strikes me as fanciful, it's Bruckheimer trash.

It doesn't open til June 27th, but awesome that Tim invited you to the Monaco advanced screening for F1 drivers! 

Speaking as someone who has spent a career either giving notes as a network executive or getting notes as the owner of a production company, I will tell you that "F1 looks terrible" is the kind of lazy, meaningless, gibberish note given by someone who has no idea what they're talking about but feels they need to say something critical to justify their job. It's a comment that's not actionable because it could mean a million different things. So... care to step up here and tell us what "looks terrible" specifically means to you? Is the color correction off? Is the picture out of focus? Do you not like the cinematography and, if you don't, how would change it? Etc, etc... let's hear it. 

"The idea that it is art in any meaningful sense strikes me as fanciful." Funny thing, critics felt exactly the same way about Blade Runner, Fight Club, Big Lebowski and others, which were all initially panned and are now considered classics. Oh, and Citizen Kane lost money at the box office, didn't even make back its investment. 

imwishing said:

MassiveAttack said:

Rogue01 said:

Siri and improved Apple AI reminds me of AirPower.  Schiller - we can do this.  Schiller a year later - no we can't.  I am not holding my breath for Siri.  I rarely use it because it isn't very reliable, and the response is usually the same thing, let me see what I can find on the internet.  I can do that myself and get a better response.  Apple has had 14 years to fix Siri, and hasn't done it yet.

Apple needs to ditch the Siri brand. Apple should get another one. 

Checks notes, yes, rebranding worked so well for New Coke, Apple should try that strategy with Siri <sarcasm>

You sure you don't wanna just put sarcasm in all caps to be sure we understand?  /s  New Coke is a really poor comparison. "Old" Coca-Cola wasn't a damaged brand that had become the butt of jokes about how bad it was. "Old" Coke was beloved, but the idiots at Coca-Cola decided to reformulate it anyway, then replaced "Old" Coke with "New" Coke on store shelves--there wasn't even a choice for a while--with utterly predictable disastrous results. "New" Coke was the Coca-Cola nobody asked for and it got shoved down their throats, until Coke came to its senses. 

Ditching the Siri brand whenever Apple finishes work on its next-gen voice assistant is actually a pretty decent idea. Siri is a valueless brand name now, other then being a "known" name, but what it's known for is not anything you'd want to be associated with a product.