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I was surprised when this story was published in my local newspaper and picked up internationally as Apple have been firm in their product segregation that they
by petecox 8y ago
I was surprised when this story was published in my local newspaper and picked up internationally as Apple have been firm in their product segregation that they have no public plans to
(a) release an iPhone desktop dock (c.f. Samsung DeX)
(b) merge iOS and macOS into one toolkit (UWP/KDE Plasma)
(c) merge Macbook and iPad (Chrome OS tablet)
(Disclaimer: not being a current Apple customer, I'm sure Cook doesn't particularly care what I want. However I am comforted that others do think different.)
- yoz-y 8y agoI think that the a) and c) are kind of at odds. If one has everything in the cloud then they do not really need docking. Docking also seems to be quite niche as people prefer laptops when they need to move a lot. As a heavy mac, iPhone and iPad user I really hope they will not merge the UI toolkits though. It would be nice if they merged parts of their APIs and modernized the mac API but for me mouse+keyboard and touch are too different to use similar kinds of controls.
- petecox 8y ago(a) i'm thinking home usage. An 8 core machine with 6GB RAM is plenty - plug in a keyboard, mouse and screen, who needs a mac mini? OTG and/or a hard disk attached to my wifi router is all the local storage I'd need, let alone the cloud. (c) If Google pulls off seamless integration of Android apps on a Chrome OS tablet then the rumoured ARM Macbook may have users wondering why they can't run their favourite iOS apps too. But that's just me, I guess, and my wants.