Look at the ridiculous workaround highlighted in this article: the doctor using remote-access software to control Windows running in a virtual machine on a Mac somewhere! Why does he have to do this and suffer the inevitably poor performance of such a setup? Because Apple has crippled its platform to the point where it's a glorified game-player and iPod. The inability to get information onto and off of these devices undermines their capability so severely that one must question the point in developing serious applications for them.
Not only can you not share information between an iPad/iPhone and a computer that it's physically connected to (WTF), but you can't even use peer-to-peer wireless networking as a workaround. Both devices still have to be connected to the same centralized network.
Then there are the potential physical devices that are ruled out by Apple's blocking of access to the dock connector on these devices. Where are all the interesting and innovative hardware devices that should have come along in the last three years? There are very, very few; and those that exist are probably using some analog workaround to Apple's preposterous "approval" process for gaining access to the hardware connector.
Apple lives in its own world, where it doesn't have to compete or create tools that make people more productive. Their success is abetted by legions of apologists and lazy "reviewers" and "observers" who perpetually laud the "elegance" of Apple's products without actually trying to use them for anything.
It's all very, very tired at this point.
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