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Apple Is Selling a Computer but in Bits And pieces
Apple’s an evil genius and it’s no secret.
Gone are the days when iPads were just tablets. Two years back, Apple announced a completely newer operating system, the iPadOS, which was nothing but iOS with a name change. The name changer soon became a game-changer, with the launch of a feature to pair a keyboard and mouse to the iPads. It’s a great feature, right? Personally, I’m a huge fan of pairing kinds of stuff with my iPad, it adds more life to the device. But Apple, the billion-dollar giant, has nothing to with our pleasure, Apple is known to keep their customers trapped in their ecosystem, and that is when things can start to get annoying at times.
The forbidden fruit shall never be eaten, but if you do, you’ll only eat more.
Although we were given the trackpad and mouse support with the update of iOS 13.5 (oops, I meant the iPadOS), the third-party mouse and trackpads performed horribly with it. Can you guess which ones performed well? Of course, Apple’s own Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad. Sadly, our existing PC mice weren’t raised in an enchanted forest to inherit the magic.
In 2021, Apple was sensitive enough to launch a pocket-friendly line of iPads at a price range of $799 to $2099, which…