Filling the wrong gap
The latest Accidental Tech Postcast episode ended with an interesting thought by John Siracusa (starting 2:23:30)
Focus on gaming was interesting. Especially when they compare the GPU power to the XBox one.
That well all and good Apple, but you’re not convincing me. Oh Apple. You’ve got all the CPU power in the world, you are like a 100 times more powerful than the Switch but you do not have Breath of the Wild. Do you see the difference? Do you see the difference here Apple? What’s different. How is Nintendo able to make these amazing games with so much less power. And buy the the thing costs so much less money. Maybe that’s part of it too but either way.
I love the GPU, like, I love the fact that they have gaming demo’s. Oh look at this it’s in retina resolution. No console can do 120fps, which is true but pc’s can. But anyway, that’s not the problem. You’re not.. they’re filling the wrong gap.
People aren’t saying I would love to use my iPad as my primary gaming system, if only it did 120FPS. That’s not what people are saying. People are saying I would love to use the iPad as my gaming system if it only it had the games I want to play. It doesn’t.
All these games are not coming out on the iPad. It’s not because the iPad is not powerful enough. It’s plenty powerful. Anyway. They insist on bringing up gaming. They insist on comparing themselves to gaming consoles. And its like you don’t see the differences that people care about, its not the differences you think they are.
The phrase “filling the wrong gap” really resonates with me.
People who aren’t yet convinced that the iPad is a real computer and can replace your MacBook, aren’t all of the sudden going to change their mind now because of better CPU performance or a nicer screen.
“No one” is asking for a faster iPad. If the apps and operating system aren’t up to par, it’s just faster at doing a poor job. Whatever you could do on a previous iPad Pro, you can do on this one. Faster.
This new iPad has the same restrictions, limitations and flaws as any other iPad running iOS 12. If Apple really wants to turn the iPad into the computer of the future, and make more complex workflows possible, it’s the software that needs to change.
I really hope WWDC19 brings major changes to iOS on iPad. Cause theirs a big gab that needs to be filled there too.
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