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If you’re listening Apple … the iPad has tons of unrealised potential for education, if only you could give the OS more Mac level functionality and an affordable 13” standard model. Our youngest daughter uses the sole iPad in our home as an occasional Netflix screen. A Mac using family for 30+ years, we’ve learned the hard way that entry level Mac laptops aren’t worth the investment for kids until high school and even then I’m not entirely sure they need the computing power of a Mac. Broke the bank buying my eldest a Macbook which effectively ended up being used for word processing, web browsing and movie watching. The youngest has a Chromebook for study and (free) casual gaming and she loves it.

In one sense I already have Apple vision: Apple TV 4K driving a big TV & two HomePods; AirPods Pro; iPad; MacBook Air; iPhone Pro. Vision Pro for me does seem ‘pro’ in that it is offering a high end way of interacting with Apple’s ecosystem. Interesting to see where it leads home and business computing trends over the next couple of years…

Great article. Apple played it well reinventing in the late ‘90’s. Mac’s were seen as pricey and niche clunkers until PowerBooks, OS’s 8 & 9 started getting a cultlike following. I went thru the early 80’s (green screens, cassettes, floppy discs, etc), onto PC’s running early Windows and then a 95 bloatware piece of junk. Bought an OS8 PowerPC Mac in ‘99 and haven’t looked back with Macs and Apple products since then. Only wish they could get over being stingy with RAM and graphics cards…