Re: OMG iPad Pro: 12.9-inch, optional keyboard and stylus
Of course, it helps to realise at this point that we are generally in the minority, as neatly illustrated by the poll above. People generally don't care who controls their app ecosystem, as long as they can do what they need to do. As long as most people aren't inconvenienced by the lack of a filesystem, likewise, they aren't going to be concerned if their platform doesn't support one, and anyway, remote storage services (including Apple's) have solved that problem too.
Of course, I'm with those who generally agree that it's insufficient for what I'd like to do. Then again, I do understand the trend away from general-purpose, much as I dislike it. I wouldn't consider using ChromeOS, but I do think it has come very far in such a short space of time and could well be the new face of computing if network connections keep getting faster and the ecosystem is opened up to the entire web. You can do your computing on big iron, and the ir on doesn't have to even be in your own living room. Of the apps currently on my Mac, the only two I'd consider serious blockers are server software and virtualisation, and of course both are very natural targets for a remote system. Times are changing ...
Having said this, this is Apple, and Apple will find a way to make the future infeasible without some disagreeable levy or other, so it probably won't be the iPad. And the iPad is currently being killed by the iPhone 6 Plus, which provides a large enough screen to be useful. It will be interesting to see how the iPad Pro changes this.
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