anonymouse

Wesley_Hilliard said:

They built a concentration camp on asphalt in the middle of a swamp surrounded by alligators they hope will eat them.

Yes, this is worth repeating, the so-called Alligator Alcatraz is a concentration camp.

I don't think there is anything mysterious about this. I think it's pretty clear that the Chinese government has ordered Foxconn to do what is necessary to keep that manufacturing captive to China, and government officials are probably dictating the details of how that is managed.

spheric said:

anonymouse said:

Apple should should just limit official sales of devices in the EU proper such that their number of official users drops to the point where they can no longer be saddled with "gatekeeper" status. There might be supply chain issues that force them to do this. 

You explain that to the shareholders, go ahead. 

Well, remember, Apple's "Europe" includes the Middle East, so the EU is not as big as it seems. And, you know, a large grey market for iPhones might develop.

So, beyond this being a totally cringeworthy feature ... it's not entirely clear from the article, but do the "requirements" (What you need...) listed above mean that you need to carry your iPhone with you to use "Workout Buddy"? That seems like a complete fail, but we'll call it a 1st strike, if that's in fact the case. Not working with the watch's speaker seems like a 2nd strike since not everyone likes to wear bluetooth "headphones" while they are working out. And there's no mention that you can simply easily surface these stats (e.g., "You've climbed 2,000 feet this week" or "That was your longest workout this month,") in the iPhone Fitness app later without involving a creepy "AI Coach", which seems like a 3rd strike.

I suppose a lot of that doesn't really matter to me since I can't see myself enabling this "feature", but it would be nice to be able to easily get at the same sort of stats quickly and easily without a "buddy".

dpkroh said:

kiltedgreen said:

mfryd said:

However, this is not a reason to prohibit running Mac OSX on an iPad.   Users should have a choice as to which OS they run.

I have nothing against the iPad OS.   It's a great solution for many (but not all) users.   Why not allow users to choose which OS they are running?    

The iPad OS can be the default, but please allow power users to install OSX.  iPad apps already work inside of Mac OSX, so no functionality is lost.  

An iPad with an M4 processor, 16GB RAM, 2TB SSD, Thunderbolt 3, and a Magic Keyboard Folio (Keyboard and trackpad) would make a damn fine portable Mac.

Please, just buy a MacBook if you want a “damn fine portable Mac”, it’s already here. I for one do not want my iPad running macOS - I’ll leave that to my Mac thanks.

I have both and use both.  But I would prefer to have one device that does both. Ideally a choice of which OS to boot, but also on more capable iPads, have both OS running simultaneously.  Plenty of use cases for having MacOS running on the left on the screen and iPadOS running on the right for example.

I wonder how many of the people here saying "just get a Mac", use BOTH devices REGULARLY.  Having to carry around TWO devices, when I could carry just one for both types of uses,  would be bar more useful.

As to the comment about Microsoft trying the tablet thing, MS has never had a decent tablet style OS, so of course it didn't work when they tried it.

Frankly, the idea of running both simultaneously is simply bonkers. Face it, your use case scenario is so niche that it's simply not worth the development costs for Apple to cater to it. For the overwhelmingly vast majority of customers, and potential customers, their strategy is imminently sensible.