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Nope. Apple would need to do a pretty decent amount of work on iOS to support desktop like behavior. I'm not sure if there's much sales incentive either. Which
by davemp 8y ago
Nope. Apple would need to do a pretty decent amount of work on iOS to support desktop like behavior. I'm not sure if there's much sales incentive either. Which is a shame because Apple got where it is by pushing the best possible user experiences. Not blind sales maximization.
- akhilcacharya 8y agoAm I going crazy? Didn't they support mice pointers when the iPad originally launched?
- djrogers 8y agoNo, mice were never supported.
- jannes 8y agoMaybe you're thinking of the iOS Simulator on macOS?
- mattkevan 8y agoThere was a jailbreak hack that added bluetooth mouse and pointer support to iOS. With another hack that added multi-window support you could turn an iPad into a buggy and slow version of macOS
- bpye 8y agoSurely getting iOS apps working on macOS (Marzipan) is laying some of this ground, they are having to adapt iOS UI widgets for it, what would it take to feed this back to iOS?
- davemp 8y agoI see no real reason to feed it back to iOS. If Apple manages to integrate iOS apps into macOS well, I can see them shipping iPads/iPhones with i+macOS. Both OS's run the same kernel anyways so why not just tweak them a bit, glue the environments together, and have one run a superset of apps? Apple's superior UX team and control over app distribution makes them much more likely to succeed than when MS tried to go down a similar road. Even their long-term investment in LLVM helps here. One can only hope us consumers don't end up with a more locked down macOS as a result.