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Rayz2016 said:

jdw said:

 And all the while, Apple continues to refuse to acknowledge that a lot of people still instinctively touch the screens of their Apple notebooks, thinking they are like every other device out there today. 

Never seen this. 

Hell, I haven’t even seen people with touch-screen laptops touch the screen. 

As Cook often says, touching a screen mounted vertically is just bad ergonomics; that’s why people “instinctively” don’t do it. 

I have. It's just that you're not looking hard enough to find the actual places people use touchscreen laptops. Hell, even a Surface! I've seen a few of them at a local cafe since I live in a college town and it's not unheard of. Most college, even high school, students I see use laptops ranging from Chrome, Windows and Mac OS, rarely do I see them use iPad. Only time I see iPad being used is when customers want to read, go over documentation, etc. I use my iPad Pro as a professional artist to create images and build out visuals to be fleshed out on the desktop later on when needed. 

As for bad ergonomics, Cook is full of it even the rest of his executive cronies. In my profession, I've seen many creatives from designers/artists use a Wacom Cintiq or other alternatives ( like Huion/XP-Pen ) so they adjust their screen digitizers/tablets at any angle they want. It's NOT so different than drawing on a drafting table in this manner. Some artists draw on a vertical plane when doing some painting on canvas with an easel or drawing from a model which is a different thing all together. Apple's approach to an iPad and keyboard combo is hypocritical but also the AR aspects of holding an iPad to interact with a 3D plane is embarassing. 

They should be using a 3D device like goggles that sense your hand movements to interact with AR/VR, not an iPad/iPhone. That level of 'babying' or 'hand holding' from Apple to consumers is extremely insulting since I expected better from them. 

And lastly, I do NOT see anyone using AR with iPhone in my area in public. NONE. The only exception is Ingress ( which I play ) or Pokemon Go when other people use it ( on Android or iOS ). 

I don't think iPad Pro will replace a PC at all. Ever. Because when using Photoshop for a high resolution file especially when you want to go with a large print from 11 by 17 or, say, 30 by 40, you need at least a 21 inch monitor or bigger to see the entire picture. I speak from experience having worked at a print shop several years ago doing page layout work and the iMac was 27 inches at the office. It allowed me to see everything without the crammed 'real estate' like the laptop or iPad. Your eyes need 'breathing room' to see the whole picture and view the actual size of the image. Even if someone wants to do a magazine layout on a two page spread view, the iPad is not the ultimate solution. 12.9 inches is not enough. You need a 21 inch monitor or wider to view the double page spread in actual size in high resolution. This is one of the reasons why the iPad Pro is flawed in this aspect. 

In short, the desktop experience for working on Photoshop, video editing, page layout, illustration, 3D modelling, CAD, etc, is superior to that of a tablet. The only way the iPad can replace the PC is if it has an HDMI or USB-C output to a large touchscreen monitor to work with Apple Pencil or similar stylus to continue the work. And it needs more than just 256 GB of storage along with a port to allow storage expansion, or connection to an external hard drive to protect the files off grid without relying on the Cloud. And the iPad Pro needs to be about 17 to 20 inches (tabloid sized) to be considered  a PC replacement. 

Why do you think Microsoft built the Surface PC, despite the expensive price? Think about it.