Re:The total PC market (including tablets) had 23% year-on-y...
by freehunter on Friday November 13, 2020 @11:24AM
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> Note that Apple's official position disagrees with you
I don’t think it’s quite that simple, as Apple has at least two different “official positions”. The first being that the iPad is more computer than you need (see their marketing around iPad, trucks vs cars, iPad Pro, etc). The second being what you described in their legal battle.
If you believe their marketing, iPad is 100% a computer. Just a different kind of computer than the Mac.
> Form factor isn't a differentiator here anymore. Tablets are becoming general purpose computing devices.
You've referenced Apple specifically in relation to all this.
Note that Apple's official position disagrees with you, as seen in their lawsuit against Epic, and their claim that iOS devices are more like app consoles than general purpose computing devices.
The most worrying part here is that we're already sliding into a world where we're accepting these walled gardens as general purpose computing devices, when the manufacturer is stating definitively that they do not see it this way. The limitations we're imposing on ourselves is a shame.
(EDIT: to add, I'm on my third iPad now and continue to be very happy with them. I'm part of the problem.)