Next year iP15, both non-Pro and Pro have Oled, but again only Pro has always-on display.
Honestly that is the reason I am still on my Note9, and looking for another Android.
I understand what product segmentation is, and probably I am minority, but damn, it feels like subscription-based heated seats.
Because in always-on mode, the refresh rate on the Pro drops down to a much lower refresh rate, as low as 1Hz.
Apple could've shipped an always on display mode with either OLED or a variable refresh-rate screen (or neither), but they only wanted to do it when they have both.
OLED so that black pixels are not illuminated and you save a good chunk of battery on that.
Variable RR so that you can drastically reduce that to save battery life as well.
Did Apple explicitly say something to that effect, or is it just the media or random comments who made this justification on their behalf?
In any case, besides concerns for "best performance/more battery" etc and enabling stuff were it's more well supported, Apple also puts different specs to different models for reasons of product differentation / price segmentation.
Also, this is completely off-topic to the original comment.
Mandate support for alternate OSes, like Asahi Linux on Macbook, https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Apple-Platform-Secur...
> ipadOS not even one layer of Mac virtualization
iPadOS 17 on M4 has a "Secure Exclave" OS, https://mastodon.social/@_inside/112440596781136013
Perhaps a future PC OEM 2-in-1 will be successful, based on Qualcomm Oryon/Arm SoC from ex-Apple Nuvia.
> software updates are way longer
There's no "longer" for comparison, when there is no competitor.
Old iPads could continue to work for years, running Linux. Apple could unlock the boot after terminating support.
They can still keep their ecosystem. You should be able to unlock it to install alternative operating system.
Unlocking should be explicit to not give an option for theft.
https://www.samsung.com/us/apps/dex/
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface
Vote with your wallet, if enough people do that, maybe Apple will notice.
Now if you already validated what they are selling is enough to keep the masses happy, then it is as it is.
The first link appears to be... presentation software? I think? It talks a lot about Samsung devices but doesn't appear to be selling a specific device (i.e., not hardware. I don't see how the software would affect sales of the iPad (which is hardware).
(Was there a different link you meant to share instead? :) )
The vast, vast majority of iPad users want iPadOS and nothing else.
Hope is not a strategy.
The Snapdragon Elite devices launched so far have been laptops.
The solution is to push the green agenda through activism and pressuring politicians/corporations to enact sweeping motions. During this talk, they discussed pushing people to take the bus in place of getting an EV with a series of methods to penalize owning a vehicle.
Its funny how given yesterday's results the talk that happened in the last days of Dec (so just 6 months ago) is now looking obsolete but I saw this over the last 10 years as the promised commitments of COP21 fell by the wayside anyway. I used to joke about how conservatives in the US lived in a bubble. Now I am seeing techies like the OP are also in a bubble.
I'm annoyed by the media coverage which all imply the Right won seats at the expense of the Left when, as you say, it's mostly the Greens (who, yes, are technically Left) who lost seats.
What's even more annoying though is I need to take a magnifying glass to even see the additional seats won by the Right. The Left still holds majority and haven't even lost an unusually large number of seats.
There obviously are exceptions when looking at the election more microscopically, like in France, but overall it's mainstream misleadia.
What's surprising to me is this disinformation campaign by the media only serves to try and empower the Right, which I always thought was something the media do not want.
Instead it really is a unique device with unique use cases as evidenced by todays keynote. Did you watch it? I came away impressed with the cool things they developed just for the iPad.
After which they could run Linux, instead of being e-waste.
> unique use cases as evidenced by todays keynote
Mark Gurman, Bloomberg journalist covering Apple for years, https://x.com/markgurman/status/1800348268385521876?
Apple needs to put 25% of the vigor into iPadOS that it just put into Apple Intelligence because this is getting ridiculous. The iPad Pro gets incredible new hardware and an M4 chip and then iPadOS essentially gets nothing of substance.
That would fix a current blocking problem, as the lack of nested virtualisation means Docker Desktop (which runs its containers inside a Linux VM) has to run on the host and can't run inside a VM.
Edit: Should've added that you can only run Windows ARM. Emulating x86 on ARM (= running "normal" Windows on macOS M-processors) may be possible (I'm not sure), but practically not usable as it will be painfully slow. That will probably not change in the near future. However Windows ARM contains a Rosetta-like x86 emulation layer so with some luck you won't even notice that you're running Windows ARM and not "normal" Windows.
I tried the UTM qemu based solution for x86 windows. It's there and it ... starts. But yes, it's way way too slow for daily use. If you just have an occasional task like document conversion once in a while, i guess you could.