Re:Apple Imagines Mac-Inside-a-Keyboard Device Evocative of ...
by em500 on Friday February 25, 2022 @09:23AM
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How do laptops without screens make any sense in schools, which are largely already deploying cheap laptops with screens?
Re:Apple Imagines Mac-Inside-a-Keyboard Device Evocative of ...
by ksec on Friday February 25, 2022 @10:05AM
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Could be targeting library or desktop business uses cases?
There is no reason why it cant be squeezed down to $299. Basically the iPad ( $329 ) without screen. Or more like with A14 but $399.
Cool idea, the problem is I still dont understand where the target market are, the two above doesn't seems very Apple to me. There are ~700M business PC ( both laptop and desktop ), I would imagine this is attractive enough for Apple to make exception.
Re:Apple Imagines Mac-Inside-a-Keyboard Device Evocative of ...
by csunbird on Monday February 28, 2022 @01:28AM
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or, just make ipad a proper handheld general purposed device that can be used for more sophisticated purposes, instead of crippling it.
Re:Apple Imagines Mac-Inside-a-Keyboard Device Evocative of ...
by sanjayio on Friday February 25, 2022 @09:49AM
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I’m terms of user experience Apple is unparalleled. If I was a teacher and there was a cheap option to educate kids with less hands on from me, I’d go with that option in a heart beat.
I wonder if this is about education.
Essentially I think Apple have realised their new developer pipe is drying up; the devices are too expensive for hobbyists and they are vastly too expensive for almost all schools on earth.
The Pi 400 is a wholly credible device in those markets; it solves a lot of the practicality issues of the earlier machines.
A device with even an old style A14 or the M1 in an M2 future, tucked inside a keyboard, could be made viable for this market, I think, and it's seemed obvious to me for some time that the only reason Apple don't make the Apple TV into a general purpose education computing device is that they don't care about the market.
If they've started to care about that market again, it's a good thing.