Drawing on the new iPad
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There it is. There is a coordinated ploy by the industry to sell more expensive hardware: shitty software. I find it hard to believe that such simple multitasking (using compute-intensive software + watching videos) could cause a well-built desktop computer to slow down.
Since there is no alternative to inefficient software, products such as the 2019 iPad are praised because they can bludgeon through these tasks and still appear fast, but only due to their sheer power.
It's disgusting, honestly. Apple pushes iOS so much because that's where they have almost full control over software, and therefore they have full control over your device's perceived performance. This isn't even limited to Apple. Case in point, https://mail.google.com
What are we, responsible computer enthusiasts, to do about this?
The iPad is the alternative to inefficient software. In this case, the inefficient software is a web page that doesn't just have to load the media you want, but the entire application to run it too.
It should be telling that a lot of shops use Electron, because even though it takes 500MB+ of RAM to run (for example) an IRC client, at least you don't have to download the code more than once.
Contrast that to a thin client devices that already have this feature, have had it for the last 10 years, and have it already done natively. This is why it should surprise nobody that iPads are "good enough" today.
I wonder what's the cheapest computer, with comparable build quality to the iPad pro, that also will not struggle with the same amount of multitasking (with the same kind of apps)
Less than an iPad Pro? Or more than?
As in, do you get more bang for your buck (in terms of multitasking productivity) with an iPad Pro?