At some point people on here need to realise that these devices simply aren't designed for them.
And that expecting Apple to dilute the value proposition with unpopular features like DEX is kind of misguided.
And why I'm suggesting they start making what the people want.
They are stagnating because the market is saturated.
The iPad is a "private" device, so there isn't any social pressure to have the latest model. You're not taking it out in public multiple times a day.
The use cases are also more limited, so even when the software support ends, there isn't that much incentive to upgrade. Streaming services still work, browser works and the drawing apps work, no point in getting a new one.
I've owned iPads since the 2nd gen and haven't had a single one's battery die on me. Every time the device physically broke (after being handed down twice) before the battery died.
No it's what you want. The people have spoken. Nobody is buying Dex. Everyone is buying iPads.
There is little to no demand for turning the iPad into some tablet-computer hybrid.
The iPad already is a tablet/computer hybrid, it just so happens to be kind of bad at it, which is why articles like these keep popping up. Apple already has an OS optimized for pointer control, just allow macOS to load up with the right hardware connected.
If you (or anyone else) doesn't want that experience... Don't? Nothing would be a forced change for anyone that doesn't want it.
Seems to me that they are doing just fine.
so a rather stark decline.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/276635/market-share-held...
Does inflation adjusted revenue actually matter if cost to produce is lower and their market share is stable?
Nobody was talking about company-wide revenue, nor cross-comparing products like a desktop to a laptop, this is a discussion on the iPad.
>“sharp decline”
Misquote suggest this is no longer a productive conversation.
That was a mistake, I had meant stark and u intentionally mistyped it and I had quoted it already, but I agree that the conversation is not productive. However, its unproductive not because of the misquote, but of one party’s seemingly misunderstanding or perhaps avoidance of things like cost improvement factors, new competitors entering the market, and other consumer buying behaviors that might be involved when a new type of product is released to the public in favor a single cherry picked metric.