To Mac Or Not To Mac: The Future For Mac

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Making The Grade is a weekly series from Bradley Chambers covering Apple in education. Bradley has been managing Apple devices in an education environment since 2009. Through his experience deploying and managing 100s of Macs and 100s of iPads, Bradley will highlight ways in which Apple’s products work at scale, stories from the trenches of IT management, and ways Apple could improve its products for students. The discussion around macOS and iOS has been going on since the iPad was first released. People have asked: what’s the long-term future of these product lines? Do we expect Apple to maintain iPhone, Mac, and iPad forever?

I’ve long considered my ideal computing future to be something a little radical. I sorta feel like this could still be the future of computing: a device in your pocket that becomes the device you need for the situation. — Bradley Chambers (@bradleychambers) Since the iPhone came out, I’ve long since thought this should be the future of computing. This style of device would eliminate the discussion around tablets vs. Why can’t a device be both? I started thing about this when I had a job that required me to use a crappy Dell laptop, but I had an iPhone in my pocket and a MacBook at home. I honestly just preferred to use my gear (bring your own device) over the crappy Dell gear.

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I didn’t want to be bringing my laptop back and forth. In the classroom, I don’t think we will ever deploy iPhones with LTE connections school-wide, but what about something like this (think through it before you comment): a Wi-Fi device that is the size of an iPhone that can be docked with a large screen (keyboard and mouse) or slide into a “tablet” style device for photo editing, browsing, etc). Why wouldn’t that be a great model? Instead of a school having to pick between the two style devices, they’d let the situation pick the best device. A “one device” would easily extend to the enterprise as well.

Employees could be assigned their “one device” that can be docked at their desk when in the office, plugged into a “laptop shell” when traveling, or “tablet shell” when the situation arises. We’ve seen it before (in a different industry). Have you seen the success of the Nintendo Switch? Video games have always had the divide between portable and console (and PC) gaming.

With the Nintendo Switch, it can be both. A device like the iPhone (with or without LTE) could accomplish that. We’ve seen how the for iPhones has risen over the years. Apple has long been a believer in beating their own product lines before someone else does.

Here is my ideal future: an iPhone that can be turned into a tablet or a laptop. With Apple’s commitment to building power-efficient A series chips, they’re at a place where they could forge this path forward. This “one” device could run iOS and macOS (running on an ARM chip).

Like with the Nintendo Switch, you’d no longer have to choose to have three devices. You’d have your iPhone (with or without LTE), and it could turn into anything. In the classroom, this devices could turn into the right one for the right situation. Do you need to type a report?

To Mac Or Not To Mac: The Future For Mac

Use the laptop shell. Do you want to go into the woods to build a database of leaves? Use tablet mode (with a camera). You may think I’m crazy, but it’s crazy enough to work.

I am known for my strong views on mobile technology, online media, and the effect this has on and communication will have on the public conscious and existing businesses. I've been following this space for over ten years, working with a number of publishers, publications and media companies, some for long periods of time, others for commissions, one-off pieces or a series of articles or shows. As Scotland’s first podcaster, I continue to be a prominent voice in the rise of podcasting and new media online, and picked up a British Academy (BAFTA) nomination for my annual coverage of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, alongside contributions to Radio 5 Live, the BBC World Service, presenting Edinburgh local radio's coverage of the General Election.

You'll find me on Twitter ,. The author is a Forbes contributor. The opinions expressed are those of the writer. With its commitment to the platform at this week’s Education-focused event, Apple once more displayed the importance of macOS and the MacBook family as it tries to disrupt the future to its advantage.

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As, the MacBook made two appearances at the Chicago event – one was during the announcement that the Apple Classroom app for iOS was going to come to macOS, presumably so the teacher’s big old computer can talk to the sleek modern iPads of the pupils; and the second was to show the educationally focused software that was available on macOS is now available on iOS and the iPad as well. It is subtle, but it is there.

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MacOS and the MacBook are not for the next generation. Everything that was important on the Mac is not only available on iOS but the new features are now debuting on iOS. That’s not just the education market. The vast majority of new features that are coming to macOS are derived from iOS features or are designed to support cloud features and drive the uptake of Apple’s mobile platform. Macbook, March 2015 (image: Apple PR) This should not be a new revelation, Apple has been diminishing the ‘cutting edge’ of the Mac platform for a long time, but there comes a point where the deceleration becomes noticeably awkward. For me this week was the moment.

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Yes, it was the moment that Apple decided the educational market would be better suited to a walled-garden product rather than one that was relatively open , but it was also the moment that Apple moved further away from laptop model of business to the tablet model of business. There was talk of a refreshed MacBook Air – if that is coming then it looks like it will be launched at WWDC in time for students heading to college and needing their first ‘grown-up computer’ (because all Apple wants them to use at school is an iPad). But you can be sure that the college MacBook will be pitched as an extension to the iPhone, an extension to the cloud, and a piece of hardware that is subservient to Apple’s other products.

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