Apple Unveils the iPad Pro

Re:Apple Unveils the iPad Pro by listic on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @04:12PM (#10194207)

Keep in mind that Microsoft spent 2 generations before converging on the current strategy: 'non-Pro' Surfaces 1 and 2 were ARM-powered Windows RT devices that could only run Windows Store apps (similar to iPad). When noone seemed to want that, Microsoft went out and made 'non-Pro' Surface 3 just a cheaper, slimmer, lower-powered device, running the same version of Windows as its bigger sibling; also non-Pro was released after the Pro and just after the newest Intel Atom chip: http://ark.intel.com/products/85475/Intel-Atom-x7-Z8700-Proc...

I actually expected the iPad Pro to support OS X apps; maybe via being powered by a new Apple Ax frankenchip that runs iOS ARM as well as x86 code (another payoff from the investment to custom chip design) and/or by requiring to recompile with the latest XCode for the App Store (a payoff from the long investment in LLVM).

Maybe next year.

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Re:Apple Unveils the iPad Pro by npunt on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @11:19PM (#10196004)

If a device has a frankenchip, it's guaranteed to be stuck with frankenapps. Which is exactly the state of Surface unfortunately.

Its kinda heresy to say here, but good software is only possible when devs adapt to the platform users choose, not the other way around.

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