7/2/2023 0 Comments Texpad not syncing dropbox![]() Selecting text on an iPad is infuriating. Simply put, I cannot quickly select a large chunk of text (e.g., 500 lines) and delete it. Some of the worse experience I have is with email.This is a sign that I look productive and happy on my tablet. ![]() Several people who watch me work decide to give it a try. This was not at all obvious to me when I started out. You can use an iPad as a primary machine. I write code using various programming languages. I have an active research program, with graduate students. I am a university professor and department chair. I got an Apple keyboard as well as a pencil. My 12-inch iPad pro has been my primary machine for the last couple of months. I tend to process much of my emails in my smartphone.Įven though I have had a iPad ever since Apple made them, I never tried to make the switch professionally. I would argue that people probably use PCs a lot less than they used them in the past, relatively speaking, because they do more work on their smartphones. In any case, we are not yet at the point where people are dumping their PCs (or MacBooks) in favor of tablets. Who even remember what a netbook is today? What I am saying is that, in the next several years, the audience for tablets is limited, tablet sales will soon stall around the same level where netbook sales stalled, and the PC is under no threat from tablets. I am not saying that tablets will not see some sales to some audience. This is somewhat more optimistic than Greg’s prediction from 2011: A fair assessment is that we are currently at a draw. Though tablet sales have stagnated, and even diminished, many PCs look a lot like tablets. The fight between PCs and tablets has been not been very conclusive so far. About 40 million tablets are sold every quarter. So 11.4 million iPads is nothing to sneeze at, but it is no PC killer. ![]() The real story, of course, is that Apple sold over 40 million iPhones, and a large fraction of these iPhone have been top-of-the-line iPhones.įor comparison, PC shipments worldwide are at around 60 million. But Apple sold 11.4 million iPads, nearly three times as many. So, during the third quarter of 2017, Apple sold 4.3 million laptops. Though I lost to Greg, there is no denying it, I don’t think that I was wrong regarding the fundamental trends. My own analysis is that I lost the bet primarily because I failed to foresee the market surge of expensive and (relatively) large smartphones. Years ago, I placed a bet with Greg Linden, predicting that tablets like the iPad would replace PCs. Daniel Lemire on Graviton 3, Apple M2 and Qualcomm 8cx 3rd gen: a URL parsing benchmark.Nonya on Graviton 3, Apple M2 and Qualcomm 8cx 3rd gen: a URL parsing benchmark.Peter on Science and Technology links (May 6 2023).me on Science and Technology links (May 6 2023).Valerio Messina on Under Linux, libSegFault and addr2line are underrated.Science and Technology links (April 29 2023).Under Linux, libSegFault and addr2line are underrated.Graviton 3, Apple M2 and Qualcomm 8cx 3rd gen: a URL parsing benchmark.Science and Technology links (May 6 2023).However, you can you can sponsor my open-source work on GitHub.
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