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Re:Apple Unveils the iPad Pro by jaegerpicker on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @03:59PM (#10194090)
lol not going to happen. Did you see Microsoft on stage? MS can't really survive long term without iOS right now and they now it. Very soon iOS apps will match and/or exceed most desktop apps.
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Re:Apple Unveils the iPad Pro by macspoofing on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @10:48PM (#10195922)
How many offices are using iPads as their workstations?

>Very soon iOS apps will match and/or exceed most desktop apps.

I expected that to be true, but we're coming up on 10 years of the Apple App Store and I'm still waiting.

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Re:Apple Unveils the iPad Pro by jaegerpicker on Thursday September 10, 2015 @09:02AM (#10197747)
A surprising number of them actually. Depends on the industry but the medical industry in particular makes heavy use of iOS. I'm not saying Microsoft is going to disappear tomorrow but I think it's pretty clear that iOS is trending upwards will windows growth has flatlined and is shrinking in certain markets.

Also I'd actually argue that a ton of iOS apps are better than the desktop equivalents. Touch screen is a new paradigm that is taking us a while to truly master IMO. Also the app store has only been out 7 years so it hasn't been 10. It launched July 2008.

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Re:Apple Unveils the iPad Pro by macspoofing on Thursday September 10, 2015 @04:40PM (#10200420)
>Depends on the industry but the medical industry in particular makes heavy use of iOS.

In what context?

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