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GeorgeBMac said:

AI seems to forget that Microsoft is not a hardware company.   When they sell hardware it's mostly to exploit and demonstrate their software.

And, with that, Microsoft left Apple in the dust.

Nearly a decade ago they developed an OS that works either in touch-screen mode or touchpad mode.   And, since then they have proceeded to refine and perfect it. 

Meanwhile, Apple is stuck back a decade or two ago where you still need to buy and carry two devices:  One for touch-screen and one for touchpad mode.

The Windows OS provides freedom to the user:  he can use touch-screen when that works best then switch to touchpad when that works best.

Apple is lagging behind.

I can hear Steve now:   "This is crap!   Fix it!"

...  And, I am sure that they will.  Apple has always hated it when Microsoft made them look bad.

At work people have been given HP 2 in 1 laptops where the screen can be used with touch and all are running Windows 10. In the whole time I’ve been in the company, nobody has removed the screen to use it as a tablet, the only time I ever see people use its touch capability at all is when they want to swipe up or down the screen or to tap a large button. Nobody ever chooses from menus, uses tools or anything remotely similar in touch mode. I was training four people yesterday and two said “I never use the touch screen as it’s so small and you can’t see what you’re doing”. These devices have screens about the size of my iPad’s but I would never use them to work on (We plug them into large monitors at work ) whereas I can easily work on my iPad for hours with no problem.

Because Apple made the correct decision to make an iPad with touch screen and laptops without, Microsoft felt they had to differentiate themselves from Apple by combining the two. You say that the Windows user can use touch-screen when that works best. The thing is, its best is never as good as an iPad because it’s a kludge designed for force a desktop OS into a tablet and both are compromised for the worse.

also, in breaking news: Steve Jobs is dead and cannot talk to you and you can’t hear him. And a final comment from SJ:

“We’ve done tons of user testing on this,” says Jobs. “and it turns out it doesn’t work. Touch surfaces don’t want to be vertical. It gives great demo. But after a short period of time, you start to fatigue. After an extended period of time, your arm wants to fall off. It doesn’t work. It’s ergonomically terrible. Touch surface want to be horizontal.”

Appleout is lagging behind? Hmmm.

Marvin said: "They look worse on some men because they look like earrings, especially with the shiny metal at the bottom".

What a load of sexist crap.

I really like Photos - I have almost every single photo I've taken back to 1972 on there and it works fine and being able to pull my iPad out anywhere and find almost any of those 10,000+ photos straight away is a regular joy. But ... you still need a Mac to get the best out of the iOS version:

Can only locate/geotag a photo on a map taken with an SLR when using a Mac
Can only change a photo's title on a Mac
Can only add keywords on a Mac

The first two omissions are by far the worst. Image analysis is amazing but there is no way (yet) for it to identify a particular car model, a particular beach, a name of a pet, a particular party etc. etc. In photos for Mac I can add this information so that if I want to find "Fred's 50th" or "classic car run" I can do so almost instantly. If I had only iOS it would require a lot of scrolling around. The inability to add a photo's location may not be noticeable to many users if all your photos are taken on a GPS enabled camera but for those of us shooting on a non-GPS SLR it would be a real loss to lose all that location information both to viewing and searching. If you are trying to use your iPad instead of a MacBook you'll have to hold onto that Mac.

All things Apple could sort with little effort.

nunzy said:

Apple does NOT "view itself as a software company". Apple is, and views itself as a portable device company. That is how Apple changed into a world class corporate powerhouse.

“And so, the big secret about Apple, of course -- a not so big secret, maybe -- is that Apple views itself as a a software company." ~ Steve Jobs.

Remarkable, isn’t it?

tokyojimu said:

My iPhone 6 _is_ so slow, even after a battery replacement. Launching apps often takes 20 seconds. Does that mean I’m gonna buy an S9? I don’t think so. 

Wow! I just launch Maps on my iPod touch 5th generation and it launched in 7 seconds to a complete loaded map ready to use. You need to get that phone looked at.