The post-PC world is closer than we think, according to the latest Apple video ad that was published on the company’s YouTube today.
The whimsical new ad for the iPad Pro follows a young girl around town as she video chats with friends, takes photos, does homework, draws with Apple Pencil, reads comics and more all from her iPad Pro.
Check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQB2NjhJHvY
Apple is also promoting a number of new iOS 11 features which make the iPad Pro a better replacement than ever. With the new Split View and Slide Over features, iOS 11 users can multi-task better and share data between apps more efficiently.
Buster Hein is a freelance writer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Twitter: @bst3r.
29 responses to “What’s a computer? Apple wants to know”
It’s not. iOS has no standard shell with command line interface. Even if it’s based on BSD/Darwin, users can’t get local shell access. So for me, it’s not a computer. It’s a device like iPod was. You can use it for so many things (*with limits)
so can’t they add it later? Anyways it is 100 percent a full computer for the average person
Not true. Mobile devices are just more convenient than a PC, but still don’t come close to it for anything more than basic use. Need to type a decent Word document? Browse a lot? Want to watch a show or movie without fumbling with a device? PC works…
PC is clumsy, big, mousedriven, requires a desk. A “portable” is a lot of sacrifice. I got an iMac, an MacBook and an iPad – guess which one is always with me….
Clearly, you haven’t used an iPad lately…
You really don’t know what you’re talking about and clearly aren’t really the type of power user that would need a PC over a tablet anyway.
Word document? 1. Lol, in what modern scenario does anyone need Word to type a decent document? 2. Who needs to type a “decent” document anyway? Real business uses Slack and Markdown now. Also Word works just fine on an iPad.
You can’t browse on an iPad? Tell that to the 18 tabs I have open in Safari right now with Bear open in split view for drag and drop note taking.
Want to watch a show or movie with fumbling for “a device”? What are you even talking about? Something is either wrong with the construction of this sentence or your basic understanding of how mobile devices work.
I work as a strategic consultant who lives on computers. While these aren’t my work per se, I often write copy, shoot and edit video and create websites, all much more demanding than any of your back to the 90’s scenarios. There was very definitely a time when I needed a PC for some of those things (Browsing the internet has been a superior experience on iOS since the first iPad) but starting with the iPad Pro that window has been shrinking, to the point that when my 2013 MacBook Pro stopped working, I pretty much was using it as battery power for my iOS devices. I’m not here to tell you how to feel or which device you should choose, just that your comment reads more like a parody of what someone like you would comment on an article like this. It’s like you went into a coma in 2007 and when you woke up nobody thought to tell you.
It’s a computer, it’s just not what you want.
How the f**k do YOU know what I want?
It’s just words on the internet. Is it really worth that level of aggression? Especially since it’s pretty obviously true from your words on this matter that it isn’t what you want. I’m with you on the PC vs iOS debate but it plainly isn’t true fir everyone and I don’t have much respect for people who talk all tough on comment boards but don’t have the guts to use their real name.
You asked how I knew? It’s simple logic.
I have explained that a smartphone or a tablet is a computer by definition. If you deny that it is not a computer, then it can only mean that a tablet or smartphone does not fit your definition of a computer (Your definition of a computer is wrong, not my fault). Therefore, they do not have what you want a computer to have, thus the conclusion.
Mate, I think your mouth is consuming more energy than your brain.
I still think you should not try to figure out my needs – you know nothing about them. You are just one of those internet A-holes who thinks that what suits you must be for everybody. I prefer my iPad, all days of week.
You missed the point, mate. *facepalm*
Try Google some brain exercises, hopefully you’ll eventually get it.
Why don’t you go Pour some gasoline over yourself instead. Strike a match
I’m not you, mate. You need help?
And for millions oters … it is….
Technically, Command Line Interface (CLI) terminal in Windows also isn’t really an integral part of the system. Of course, it’s BUNDLED with Windows, but… Additionally, Classic Mac OS had no CLI whatsoever. My point is that CLI is not a defining aspect of a computer
It will never be better than a computer till it gets emails sorted out like they are on a Computer.
Email works better on an iPad than it does on any Windows machine ever built.
anything works better than windows.. but, mail needs a revamp on iPads to keep it in line with the iMacs/Pros/Books, after all it is a take anywhere bit of kit to use on the go and emails, are on the go ;-)
I don’t know what you’re referring to. The built in Mail app on iPhone and iPad works great.
OK, the deleting of ‘all’ mail in one go isn’t an option, cant send anything to junk file in ‘Rules’..it don’t have the option in iPad’ like in iMac.. it’s just a basic progra.
…Are you Steve Wozniak? I really hope you are… This would be so cool
I thought we had moved on from this discussion?
Well, judging by some of the comments, obviously us oldies haven’t.
No surprise the main actor in the ad is a young girl. To her generation an iPad is a thing that she uses for x amount of things. No doubt she has a smartphone which does x amount of things. No doubt her school probably gave her a notebook of some description that does x amount of things. I wouldn’t be surprised if the TV in her home didn’t do x amount of things or her games console or some toy she owns.
Which one of these devices is a computer?
As someone who has two daughters roughly her age, they simply do not understand the question. All they see are devices and the world at their fingertips.
It’s like watching a video of a kid riding around a city on a bicycle, then asking at the end “what’s a car?”
Of course there will always be people who needs a PC. But millions of people will move to tablets because it does the job in a better way than a desktop PC or a portable PC.
PC users trashing tablets because it does the job in a different way och without a mouse – I am so tired of those guys. “Doh, that’s not a PROPER computer….”
A portable still requires a desk for example. And, all things Jobs said is nowadays a long time ago….
Seeing you replying to me, I assume you are talking about me, not mister Mug, so I’ll pay you some courtesy by replying back.
– First, you stroke up this conversation
– Second, I don’t pay respect to people who don’t deserve it.
– Third, I started nice. All I stated was that a smartphone/tablet is a computer (I even explained why in a pretty normal, polite way), and it does not fit what the OP’s preference of a computer should do.
– Fourth, some dude who wasn’t even the OP just came in and be rude to me. I don’t like it.
– Fifth, seems like another rude guy just joined.
‘ Fourth, some dude who wasn’t even the OP just came in and be rude to me. I don’t like it.’..Umm pardon me, when was I rude? only in the last post when you were self righteous to me.
– Fourth wasn’t you. You’re Fifth. Fourth is mister Mug, unless you’re mister Mug with a different account.
– Yes, your language made me “pissed off”
I give in with you… see ya.