On the Sad State of Macintosh Hardware

Re:On the Sad State of Macintosh Hardware by emodendroket on Thursday June 14, 2018 @02:34PM (#17314151)

I don't see how you figure. Windows 8/10 does the latter and it works fine. Yes, controls in applications not designed for touch interaction don't work well without a mouse and keyboard, but again, I contend that a keyboard and mouse are much more suitable for productive work.

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Re:On the Sad State of Macintosh Hardware by scarface74 on Thursday June 14, 2018 @02:56PM (#17314356)

Windows 8/10 don't "work fine" as a touch screen OS. Most programs people use everyday still use menus that are not optimized for touch and there is still a special "tablet mode". Even parts of the OS itself are not geared fortouch.

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Re:On the Sad State of Macintosh Hardware by emodendroket on Thursday June 14, 2018 @03:19PM (#17314540)

If you aim to replace office productivity apps you're going to run into the exact same problem

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Re:On the Sad State of Macintosh Hardware by scarface74 on Thursday June 14, 2018 @04:18PM (#17314997)

There is already both Microsoft Office for the iPad and Apple's iWork suite.

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Re:On the Sad State of Macintosh Hardware by emodendroket on Thursday June 14, 2018 @04:23PM (#17315035)

Yes, and they provide a fraction of the functionality.

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Re:On the Sad State of Macintosh Hardware by scarface74 on Thursday June 14, 2018 @04:59PM (#17315298)

The question is how many people use the missing functionality? Also, office development is not static. MS is continuing to add functionality and with the better scriptability coming with iOS 12, iOS will get more powerful.

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Re:On the Sad State of Macintosh Hardware by emodendroket on Thursday June 14, 2018 @06:41PM (#17316052)

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/03/23/strategy-letter-iv...

Nobody uses all of the esoteric features of Office, but most people use at least a few.

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