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"The iPad Pro doesn’t need to run macOS, but the answer to why an iPad Pro can’t do something a Mac can do, shouldn’t be to carry two kinds of computers with the same M-series chips, with the same RAM, with the same storage, and do different things on each.” https://duck.haus/@joesteel/112448850000669090
Trying to build a system to scaffold your brain is such a tricky business, because you have to balance the tools available, how you want things to work, and openness to ways that might work better.
❝ It makes little sense for a new generation of Apple silicon to debut in iPads.
i’m shocked to hear this take from you, of all people — if the M4 chips are ready, why would Apple wait to release new products with the new chip family? especially if the chips are key to a software feature likely debuting at WWDC?
also, isn’t it possible that the iPads were delayed from their earlier launch date because of issues related to the chips themselves?
As an SWE Prof, I warn students about the MVP rush, that iteration can't fix releasing too early making you an R&D release for others and tainting initial users.
Today, I had a sad example with a possibly cool documentation platform, Butterdocs. It could be a contender, yet it lacks code formatting, code blocks, & has no embeds, so it is pretty much useless for its best target audience as it stands. 😢
TL;DR - Release software when it is actually ready not early because of start-up beliefs
@atpfm@siracusa i think you’re right that you can’t draw a direct line from the Microsoft case to the iPod, but what you can say is that the Web — the super app of the 90s — is what allowed the iMac (and thus Apple; the iPod) to exist at all.
@atpfm@siracusa i bring this up sort of tangentially because earlier you and @marcoarment were saying that the only thing allowing super apps does is shift the problem one layer up, but i’m not sure that’s immediately true. super apps just allow a layer of abstraction above the OS layer that makes the hardware and OS less sticky in their own right, and thus encourages competition more broadly.
@siracusa the point is that it creates competition underneath WeChat – i’m not saying i agree with the conclusions, but the argument goes that there is more smartphone competition in China because WeChat sits above everything else and people can switch underneath it. whether you think WeChat just becomes the next problem in the stack depends on your perspective. the DOJ seems to think the issue is the hardware for whatever reason (“performance smartphone”), so it is relevant to their argument