tronald

Sherlocking is a problem. Sign in with Apple is not an example of sherlocking. It is a response to popular sign-in services simply lacking any decent level of privacy protection, and seeing both a market need and an issue for their user base that they felt they could address. One could argue that the terms of service for Sign in with Apple are an anti-trust violation, since they could be seen as abusing their power in controlling their platform to strong-arm themselves into a market. But, Sign in with Apple is a good thing, so I am personally okay with it. 

But, this is a suit from a patent troll who is pretending to stand up for other developers to gain positive publicity for their trollish ways. 

GeorgeBMac said:

Since the Surface Pro can function as a switch hitter -- either as a tablet or a laptop, then shouldn't the cost comparison been against the total cost of both the iPad Pro + the MacBook?   $1,600 vs $2,950?

But, hopefully Apple fixes that with iOS 13 by opening up the cursor/mouse function to let the iPad switch hit too.  

iPadOS 13 opens up cursor/mouse functions. It is currently rudimentary, but should be enough to ease the problem of using a keyboard for writing without having to lift your fingers up to the screen, which should finally make word processing on an iPad actually work well enough. I doubt it will allow for keyboard/mouse interactions in game play anytime soon, as the iPad is still very much a touch-oriented device with mouse/touchpad interaction added for limited uses.