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I feel this is now being driven by the decline of desktops in general.
Every now and again I meet someone who somehow gets through life without a desktop.
I can understand someone who owns a Mac/Windows PC just binning it out of frustration and not buying another one. They are just life-sucking levels of horror at this point.
Tablets cover >90% of the regular person's usecase, anyway, nowadays.
It's been years since I owned a tablet. I felt that they were redundant because I have a phone and a desktop and a laptop and a Chromebook.
Yes, in that case, it really is. But if you have both a phone and a tablet with a keyboard, any kind of PC might be redundant, if you don't do any specialized task like coding/video/gaming/photography,...
fuck even some photographers ik don't even have a damn computer just an ipad
The iPad Pro covers 99% of Photographer use cases. They’ve got enough processing power now that it doesn’t really have a difference from their laptops
Source: Am considering an iPad Pro instead of a laptop for my photography.
I'm sure those users would like an experience like a game console or a phone with just apps and shortcuts
Basically ChromeOS