Tim Cook, gestern gegenüber Peter Wells:

?We don’t believe in sort of watering down one for the other. Both The Mac and iPad are incredible. One of the reasons that both of them are incredible is because we pushed them to do what they do well. And if you begin to merge the two … you begin to make trade offs and compromises.
?So maybe the company would be more efficient at the end of the day. But that’s not what it’s about. You know it’s about giving people things that they can then use to help them change the world or express their passion or express their creativity. So this merger thing that some folks are fixated on, I don’t think that’s what users want.“
The Sydney Morning Herald
Phil Schiller sagte im letzten Jahr: ?We plan to keep on doing (The Mac) for a very long time.? Sein ?very long time? verstehe ich als wortwörtlich.
Und trotzdem gilt: Das Neue löst immer das Alte ab ? nie vollständig und nie sofort, aber mit Sicherheit. Wenn ihr am Wochenende nur einen einzigen Artikel lest, knöpft euch ?A Big Phone? von Matt Gemmell vor:

If you can?t use a modern device because of features or software not currently available, then you?re in a wholly, but only temporarily, rational position. On the other hand, if you think that modern devices can?t be made to do whatever it is that you do, then your argument is virtually guaranteed to be fallacious.
The thing that bugs me about statements like ?iPads are toys?, ...