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Originally Posted by eschwartz
The problem with the iPad Pro is that it seems it runs iOS. 
You *can* be productive with iOS, maybe... but the ability to run a full desktop environment is still something many will want to see. Including the corporate market...
That much Microsoft got right (eventually). The current crop of Windows tablets run plain old Windows Desktop, and you can use the wealth of applications that have been available for a long, long time. It is the convenience of a tablet form-factor wrapped around the same laptops that have been serving people so well for so long.
An iPad Pro running iOS will require people to evolve in order to be as productive as they were with a MacBook. At best. |
I see it as Apple making the same mistake Microsoft made with the Surface and Surface 2. A tablet that appears to offer everything yet has a limited OS. MS disbanded the S1 and Surface2 in favour of the Pro. Even the Surface 3 has a full OS.
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Originally Posted by HappyMartin
IT experts will continue disliking Apple and predicting failure. Apple continue making billions. That seems to be the only constant in the technology world.
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Why do they make millions? Because of the consumer market.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Apple sell huge numbers of iPhones and iPads in the corporate market (my company alone probably has thousands), but not Macs.
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I don't know any company that has Iphones or Ipads by the thousands... The company I work for has nokia's (you know, the old-fashioned phones) and the rest is mostly Samsungs with here and there an Iphone. The company I'm detached to right now has Lumia's 630's all across the board.
It's mostly in English speaking countries that Apple is a very big hit, most of Europe has mostly Android (France is apparently a strange one in the list...)
http://connect.icrossing.co.uk/wp-co...nfographic.png
I have my doubts that this tablet will sell by the millions like the average Iphone does. And what the original Ipad did. It's too limited for that price and size.