DanielEran

davidcree said:

I love it when DED says "here's why" thanks Dan, enjoyed your journalism for many, many years.

tht said:

therunningvm said:

appex said:

Apple should make a Mac tablet.

And make macOS as dumbed down as iOS? No thank you.

I'd actually like Apple to give this a try:


I'd go even more extreme. Put in a 15" 16:10 "iPad", as large as the footprint allows, onto there. 

If can operate like the Touchbar, essentially an iPad as an input device to a Mac. The basic idea is the bottom screen is a big input device plus whatever iOS apps can run on it. It'll serve as a keyboard, trackpad, Pencil input. Basically just make the Touchbar iPad large. 

When you you want to draw or take handwritten notes, use an Apple Pencil. The trackpad will be a software based one. The keyboard will be a software based one. You can have specialized keyboards for any language or app. Like a VIM specialized keyboard. You are not limited to ~100 keys. Put in 200 if needed. You can use a shape drawing keyboard if needed. You can rearrange the keys anyway you want. 

This "Touchboard" can also have iOS apps run on it. Like Twitter. Or have an uber status app for your Mac there. 

This idea comes as the cost of having 2x sized battery and probably a 5 lb laptop. But, it presents an interesting idea of making drawing input into a clamshell with less clumsiness then the 2-in-1 or swiveling screen laptop form factors I think. 

k2kw said:

The surface business has really rebounded since the big write-down.   MS doesn't have to hold a mea culpa meeting about how they screwed up with the Surface Now.

And it been just as long of a wait for the new large iPad Pro as for a Surface Pro 5.
(MS did release the Surface Book Performance Base - and they didn't have to wait 4 years like the Mac Pro.)

avon b7 said:

muthuk_vanalingam said:

avon b7 said:

minglok50 said:

You are citing `the Verge as a credible balanced site...

You are posting in thread hanging off a DED article. Balance is not something that springs to mind.

I agree with the sentiment that DED articles cannot be considered balanced, but somehow I found this article to be a balanced one. May be, my own biases!!!

Bias isn't a bad thing per se. We all have an element of It. When necessary we can all filter much of that bias out. I've worked in government and know how important it is to gIve everyone the same treatment Iindependently of my own personal opinion or feelings.

In this article it's his opinion but as usual soaked in bias. Sometimes I get through them, others I don't. This time I didn't.

I'm not forced to read them.

I think in this article I hit on two unbalanced points and then threw in the towel.

One was the stab at facial recognition. The company tells you you shouldn't use it as a security feature and it won't even allow you to  make payments with it. On the other hand they offer you an iris scanner which no iPhone has, and AFAIK at this point, is very secure. Nevertheless it seems ok to take a gratuitous poke at facial recognition because it is 'weak' and just skip the iris scanner, as mentioning that would make the stab less effective.

Of course, to work, you would need some kind of ssocial engineering. You need a photo of the person. The last time I checked, Apple would allow you to not even set a passcode and would definitely accept ultra weak passcode. In that regard, it is just as weak as facial recognition. 

The other point was services. The article's sets out the stand very clearly. S8. iPhone. The lead in then just opens the door to everything under the sun because it wants to include historical context (biased of course :-))

But why did it slam Samsung's entire mobile division with that direct non historical comparison to Apple Services? The relevance of Services is very recent and is derived from the entire Apple spectrum, not just iPhone. I didn't see any balance there. 

It's true that I just stopped reading anyway so maybe there was some kind of justification elsewhere in the article. Anyway, that's how I saw when I started reading.

seanismorris said:

Samsung & Andriod in general are doing fine.

It is true Samsung should outsource software development.  They really are terrible at it.

This part is completely false:
The CPU cores of Apple's latest A10 Fusion speed past Samsung's own Exynos and Qualcomm's fastest Snapdragon, neither of which generate comparable profits to warrant equal investment going forward. 

A10 is a superior chip, but both Exynos and the Snapdragon absolutely warrant further investment.  They're arguably the 2 & 3 best mobile chips out there, and much much better than anything Intel has produced (for mobile).

A10 has an integration/optimization advantage.  And while Android is decent, efforts to optimize it have legged.  When Google has a monopoly, why bother...