Matisyahu's Blog

Another day at work and then went for a my usual walk. I really do love this time of year, not too hot, not too cold, a cool breeze, things aren’t too chaotic around where I live and I’m looking forward to a few work get togethers over the next couple of weeks and then my holiday starts on 15 December where I’ll enjoy two weeks off. On my walk I was thinking about taking a week off in June next year over the WWDC – it’ll be interesting to see what the focus will be – maybe we’ll be lucky and everyone has realised that the AI hype was over the top and the industry finally gets back to dealing with the issues that end users want addressed instead of saying AI related gibberish to increase their stock price.

I couldn’t be bothered watching Real Time with Bill Maher – when you can’t even get the facts straight when talking about a group of Democratic politicians saying to those working in defence that they don’t have to obey an illegal order (link), why should I waste my time watching your show? Btw, within the defence force you don’t need to be a legal expert but there is a chain of command, processes to fallow and outside groups that can provide free legal advise so his ridiculous scenario he gave of a 21 year old in the Overtime segment of is show is, quite frankly, a load of crap and he should feel ashamed for putting out such nonsense in the first place.

I was watching a video regarding the iPad Pro and the video presenter was complaining how it isn’t a Mac replacement – for some reason he has convinced himself that if Apple doesn’t give him what he wants then Apple has let him down rather than it being the fact that the device was never designed for is use case in the first place. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but the iPad Pro isn’t a drop in replacement for the Mac because they cater for difference audiences. First thing off I have to point out, the term ‘Pro’ lost any real meaning years ago when it pretty much became sort hand for “this has all the bells and whistles that the standard version lacks” not that it is designed for ‘professionals’ (who is considered a professional and what a professional needs is like asking how long a piece of string is).

The iPad is designed to be an appliance, a device for the every man who simply wants a computer where they can turn it on, do what they want and then turn it off. The audience for an iPad is someone who wants a device that enables them to do a set of tasks but abstracts the details away and with that abstraction comes a lack of power and flexibility by virtue of enabling such power flexibility invariably means adding complexity – something the target audience doesn’t want to deal with. Long story short, the iPad is for your mum, your brother who wants something they can check out the football scores, your nana who likes sending emails and keeping in contact with her knitting group on Facebook.