Meanwhile, Tim Cook said publicly and more recently: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macrumors.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;09&#x2F;tim-cook-ipad-pro-can-replace-notebooks-desktops&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macrumors.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;09&#x2F;tim-cook-ipad-pro-can-re...</a><p>&quot;Yes, the iPad Pro is a replacement for a notebook or a desktop for many, many people. They will start using it and conclude they no longer need to use anything else, other than their phones.&quot;<p>So I guess maybe we should ask Tim Cook how he really feels? Maybe you should go and write increasingly smug and demeaning hacker news posts at him. I&#x27;m sure he&#x27;ll be as intimidated as I am.<p>&gt; &quot;“From the ergonomic standpoint we have studied this pretty extensively and we believe that on a desktop scenario where you have a fixed keyboard, having to reach up to do touch interfaces is uncomfortable,” says Schiller.<p>Just an aside: what a load of absolute horseshit. Just another example of how relentlessly people fall in line with the Apple party line on experience even as experts in UX and UI say, &quot;They are doing nearly everything wrong.&quot;<p>I reach up from a keyboard to a touch surface every day, and it was a revelation when I finally could. You need it maybe once an hour, but the precision of scaling and translation gestures is far greater and the operation way more natural with your hand.<p>So Phil&#x27;s statement is either garbage or terribly dated, and independent testing bears that out. But whatever. You&#x27;re saying that Apple doesn&#x27;t believe the iPad Touch is a laptop replacement.<p>&gt; You&#x27;re unable to develop software using OS X.<p>No. That&#x27;s not true. I just prefer not to. The SDK&#x27;s first substantial change since the days of OpenSTEP was the modernizations brought on by Swift, which themselves feel dated and poorly thought out. Sadly, we don&#x27;t get many other choices that can match the native look and feel. Its dated and platform locked and Apple&#x27;s made sure it can&#x27;t pay out well except in a few categories.<p>But hey, what do I know. It&#x27;s not like I&#x27;ve been in charge of shipping successful, highly featured and widely acclaimed iOS apps... What do I know?