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Just because people love it, doesn’t mean that it can’t be better. It also doesn’t mean that current way of doing things is efficient.

> What's silly is thinking that a device that makes everyone happy is somehow trivial, or that a device intentionally made with a specific type of interface is bad because of that intent.

Add a proper native terminal, proper virtualization framework á la what we have on Mac, side loading and third party browser support with plugins and you’ll shut up 99% of complaining users here.

> If things were as bad or as trivial as some people suggest, someone else would have made a successful competing product by now, rather than the string failures across the industry, from those who have tried.

Right, let me use my couple billion change in R&D to create iPad compatible system with all that I’ve mentioned before.



> Just because people love it, doesn’t mean that it can’t be better.

Better for who ? They sell like hot cakes, 50+ millions of them per year

According to google there are 25m software devs in the world, even if half (extremely generous) of them would buy a new ipad every single year (extremely generous) if they implemented what you ask it isn't going to change much for apple, ipads are like 10% of their revenues. So at best we're talking of 3% revenue increase

> 99% of complaining users here.

99% of not much is nothing for apple, they're already printing money too fast to know what to do with it


If all you care about is revenue - sure, don’t see any point arguing with you. It’ll end with “it’s not going to yield additional revenue”.




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