Re:What the Heck Is Happening at Apple?
by pinaceae on Monday October 31, 2016 @12:22PM
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you're arguing yourself in circles.
so we're against any notebooks now, as a typical user only ever needs a tablet? great, you've confirmed Apple's strategy across PCs and iPads (incl. the iPad Pro).
they're abandoning the Air and cheaper lines for that very reason - the iPads and iPhones are good enough now.
MPBs are now a testing ground for new inputs (Touchbar) and port unification. Eventually they all add a full touchscreen keyboard, once it can do haptic response (see the iPhone7 home button for a preview). first the Touchbar will become haptic, so we're at least 2 iterations away from it.
Actually more likely that this thing then ends up in the iPad product line, fully destroying the classic PC line. but who knows.
so we're against any notebooks now, as a typical user only ever needs a tablet? great, you've confirmed Apple's strategy across PCs and iPads (incl. the iPad Pro).
they're abandoning the Air and cheaper lines for that very reason - the iPads and iPhones are good enough now.
MPBs are now a testing ground for new inputs (Touchbar) and port unification. Eventually they all add a full touchscreen keyboard, once it can do haptic response (see the iPhone7 home button for a preview). first the Touchbar will become haptic, so we're at least 2 iterations away from it.
Actually more likely that this thing then ends up in the iPad product line, fully destroying the classic PC line. but who knows.