Re:I returned my 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar
by gst on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @10:33AM
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> But people care for desktops/laptops for all the other work you can't do without "peripherals", and with just "the cloud and that's it".
I don't disagree. But is that market large enough for Apple to care about? Apple is pretty focused with its product line and it might not make sense for them to continue investing into the desktop market.
As I wrote, work that people can do with tablets, which fits with the above, they already do. But people care for desktops/laptops for all the other work you can't do without "peripherals", and with just "the cloud and that's it".
If we all just used web apps nobody would have cared for a desktop that much.
Besides, last time I've checked, the speed of light, which provides the lower limit for latency, is not changing anytime soon.
>You're supposed to buy more iCloud storage and have an infinite throughput connection.
A, I get it, it's a mockery of some supposed Apple idea. I don't think they are to that. If anything Google, with the Google office suite, Google run-everything-within-Chrome chromebooks etc is.
Apple is not really about convergence on the iOS -- they get the different uses cases for PC vs tablet-phone form factors and have made several statements to that effect -- they just don't care that much for the former.