Concerned_Citizen

The value proposition is different for everyone. A single person can look at the Apple Vision Pro ("AVP") and see a replacement for his or her laptop, external monitor(s), TV and Home Cinema and think that $3500 is cheap to replace these devices with one that does offer better functionality, productivity and overall enjoyment.  Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. What truly excites me about the AVP is what Apple calls Spatial Computing: the ability to run everyday apps with virtual monitors that you can configure essentially any way you want. This, for me, is the "killer" app for the AVP. I can't wait to see how effective it will be to do real work on a daily basis.

Apple must stop the bs and put in practice what it preaches. I have been a long-time customer of Apple (Mac's, IPads, IPhones, IPods, Airpods, etc, etc, etc.) for myself and every member of my family and I must say that I was thoughghly upset when I read about how Apple is treating its front-line employees. This is how American capitalism has run amok and failed the very large majority of citizens: the obscene enrichment of a very few to the detriment of the rest. This is outrageous in light of Cook, Federici & al pocketing their hundreds of $Millions in remuneration and stock options on the back of their front-line employees. This must stop or else....

robaba said:

Apple is not “dummying down iPad os.  iPad OS is the most capable and flexible it has ever been and they continue to enhance it.  “Drumming down” would be to render it less useful than it was previously—exactly the opposite of what is objectively happening.

True multi-tasking, external monitor support, multiple account support, true file management, pro apps, are all distressingly lacking in IPadOS (14 and 15). The M1 IPad Pro is a total waste of hardware capability with the current incarnation of IPadOS. Considering that a fully loaded 12.9" M1 IPad Pro ($2,399) is more expensive than the equivalent fully loaded M1 MacBook Air ($1,869) and the fully loaded 13" M1 MacBook Pro ($2,119), anyone with half a brain is better off buying an M1 MacBook Air or a 13" M1 MacBook Pro. The M1 chip is totally wasted on an IPad Pro with the current incarnation of IPadOS. Until Apple ceases to dum-down the IPadOS, I honestly see absolutely no reason for purchasing an M1 IPad Pro.

With the announcement of Windows 365, which is essentially a full Windows PC in the cloud (up to 16 GB RAM and 512 GB of storage) that will run on any platform that offers a web browser, Including Mac's, IPads and IPhones, If Apple continues to insist in dummying down IPadOS, many users of the M1 IPad Pro will seek a full PC OS experience by simply running Windows 365 through a web browser on the IPad. The lack of true support for external monitors on IPadOS will mean that running Windows 365 on the IPad will be limited to 4:3 ratio on external monitors, but at least, users will get true PC apps like Windows Explorer, Office, Photoshop, etc. The only problem is that these will be Windows apps and not Mac apps. The rollout of Windows 365 may very well force Apple to unleash the true power of the M1 Ipad Pro with a much more capable IPadOS, one that is basically MacOS + touch abilities.