An always-available, online-capable Raspberry Pi in your pocket

Re:An always-available, online-capable Raspberry Pi in your ... by nine_k on Saturday November 02, 2019 @10:21PM (#21431638)

Nothing is wrong: iPad is mostly a consumption device which does not show any development interface to the user. Compare it to a music player that does not expose any music creation interface.

This allows the maker of iPads to change the underlying implementation how they see fit, without making users notice anything. If iPads started to run a mickrokernel OS underneath, the UI / UX won't change at all.

The expensive parts of an iPad are the screen, the battery, the QA, and the brand. The CPU is not particularly expensive, though maybe isn't a $5 part.

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Re:An always-available, online-capable Raspberry Pi in your ... by jjeaff on Saturday November 02, 2019 @10:49PM (#21431780)

The marketing line for the iPad pro is "like a computer. Unlike any computer"

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Re:An always-available, online-capable Raspberry Pi in your ... by Semiapies on Sunday November 03, 2019 @01:05AM (#21432305)

For most of the people it's being marketed to, a computer is not a development system, either.

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Re:An always-available, online-capable Raspberry Pi in your ... by dTal on Sunday November 03, 2019 @01:30PM (#21435636)

>Compare it to a music player that does not expose any music creation interface.

Okay, and if people were buying 4-figure Bang and Olufsen stereo systems and hooking up a 5-dollar cassette recorder as their music production system, I'd be perturbed by that as well.

If it's merely a consumption device, why attempt to develop on it? If it's a serious tool, why is the $5 component needed? Most of all - why don't you have a device that actually does what you want it to, properly, and why doesn't this bother you?

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