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		WastingMyTime89 on June 30, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake The issue is not courage. Apple knows that the use cases for the Macbook Air and the iPad Pro significantly overlap. So they use software limitations to avoid canibalising sells of one with the other even if it means making the iPad Pro a lesser product than it could be.

mcphage on June 30, 2023 [–]

> So they use software limitations to avoid canibalising sells of one with the other

I'm not sure that's the case—Apple has generally not been afraid to cannibalize sales of their devices by their own devices.

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