Re:Apple Lays Off 200 Employees from Autonomous Car Unit
by jrockway on Thursday January 24, 2019 @07:37AM
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The point is that that market is tiny compared to the people that buy iPhones. I also think Apple is doing good things on turning the iPad into a general purpose computing device. For my use cases (ssh somewhere to do work), it is way easier to manage than a laptop, and smaller. I imagine that as the product improves more people are going to make the jump, leaving MacOS in a weird place. (I switched from a Surface Pro 4 to an iPad Pro as my "laptop" and I am much happier. I still use a Windows workstation for everything that can't be done by ssh-ing to a Linux box, though, and of course prefer dual monitors and a mouse when I'm not travelling.)
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Re:Apple Lays Off 200 Employees from Autonomous Car Unit
by bunnycorn on Thursday January 24, 2019 @09:07AM
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Of course it is "tinier", because the PC market (and Macs are PCs) is much smaller than the phone market.
And has been shrinking since 2010... must be a coincidence as Apple introduced the iPad that year...