GeorgeBMac

techrules said:

My kids school use to be all Macs.   There was a room filled with iMacs used for the current AR.   Did drive me a little crazy the kids fighting over colors.   All gone and replaced with a room filed with Chromebases.

But it is not only the elementary but the middle and high school the same way.   They teach AP CS 1 and CS 2 using Chromebooks and Crouton.   AP classes are all taught in Java now.

Apple MUST get a solution with a keyboard that is somewhere between an iPad and a Mac.    These kids are being trained 6 or 7 hours a day on the Google eccosystem.   Basically the state is paying for their training.   This is something Apple needs to get serious about.   

What is kind of amazing is Cooks' own high school recently created headlines when they replaced all the Macs in the school with Chromebooks.   Cook response was a shot at Chromebooks and lack of creativity.    

tzeshan said:

BizTraveler said:

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."

My MacBook Pro with touch bar beats Surface hands down.  It has longer battery life. Light. High resolution retina screen. Touch bar will provide many capability of a touch screen.  Apple has outsmarted Microsoft with the touch bar. 

Notsofast said:

GeorgeBMac said:

I wonder how much the "election" of tRump influenced this?   He has promised to gut any and all regulations -- particularly those related to restrictions on health care innovation.
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For medical devices there are 3 main restrictions:
1)  Health care professionals and organizations who have nothing but contempt for any and all consumer grade equipment.
2)  Insurers only care about money.   "Will this increase or decrease my bottom line"  (It has little to do with "peer reviewed" anything)
3)  Government (FDA) regulations and approvals trump the first two.

But, with tRump promising to gut the regulatory environment, he could open up the market for consumer grade wearables to quickly become medically approved devices.   But, both medical providers and insurers will still have the final say.

Please watch the politics so this site doesn't go off the edge like so many other places.  And if you do, please don't spread that fake news.  You have an interesting point, but it gets lost when you make up an absurd statement like, " the President wants to "gut any and all" regulations."  He, along with most of his party, and many Democrats at the federal, state and local level, have pledge to eliminate unnecessary regulations that are hurting small and large businesses, stifling innovation or job creation while still preserving the many important ones that protect the environment, consumer safety, etc.   As far as health, the pledge to remove unnecessary regulations to move life saving drugs to market is welcome by many who otherwise will suffer or die, and reducing unneeded costs will make treatments more affordable, again a benefit for all, but mostly for those with less means.

One very quick example from the state level  is that yesterday the great state of South Dakota eliminated the silly, absurdly expensive and time consuming and completely useless requirement that you had to obtain a license before you could braid hair which impacted many people, but especially small businesses, lower income people ,and minorities.

 From Forbes --"Previously, braiders faced the toughest law in the nation. Before anyone could work twisting or braiding hair, they first had to obtain a cosmetology license. That license requires at least 2,100 hours of training, which can cost nearly $15,000 in tuition. Meanwhile, braiding without a permission slip from the government could lead to fines and even jail time. Adding to the absurdity, many cosmetology schools don’t even teach African-style braiding techniques, and those that do dedicate almost no time to the subject.

kenaustus said:

i'm 72 which gives me a long list of conditions that can benefit from advanced sensors in an iPhone or Apple Watch.        

While sensors for pulseox or glucose is needed I believe that sensors for chemical levels that can help determine the needed  medications.  Ewe see the start of that now where generic testing can help determine the best treatment.   Expand that to a wide range of conditions and you have an explosive  potential of a market.