Hacker News Reader

Comment by baddox | Hacker News Reader

Why does everyone write this stuff with such absolutism? There’s no purpose to these devices? I have 2 iPad Pros, one I use every day to consume content like twitter, hacker news, and YouTube. The other I use approximately weekly to play and record music (connected to a digital piano).

Are there even reports that iPad pros aren’t selling well? I think they are the best computers ever made.

View on HN

Yes. Sales plateaued a while ago (and I think even decreased?). Here’s some data: https://www.statista.com/statistics/269915/global-apple-ipad...

Seoarately, I think many people cannot afford a device that starts at $800 just for Twitter, YouTube, and Hacker News.

Especially when their current device runs Twitter,YouTube and Hacker News just fine.

Those are ipad sales, not ipad pro sales. Within the ipad market we don't really know how the ipad pros are doing.

The sales peak you refer to predates the ipad pro.

The current 'pleb' ipad is $329 and does an awesome job being a twitter appliance. I'm only slightly annoyed as it was half the price I paid for my iPad Air 2 2-3 years ago.

That an iPad Pro is too expensive for most people is a perfectly reasonable argument, much stronger than "the iPad Pro has no purpose."

Daniel Lemire had a bet with a colleague about the usefulness of an iPad, leading him to use it as his primary work device for a year and post about it after [0]. He found it much more effective than I’d have expected. While I have no interest in using one, I’ve become less judgemental about it as a platform.

[0] https://lemire.me/blog/2017/10/03/my-ipad-pro-experiment/

Vision. It's the difference between inventing a new future and iterating on the past.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com