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It is an interesting strategy; where others have tried to unify their OS (WinRT/UWP, Honeycomb->Ice cream sandwich). Honeycomb and WinRT were viewed as fragment
by Mertax 7y ago
It is an interesting strategy; where others have tried to unify their OS (WinRT/UWP, Honeycomb->Ice cream sandwich).
Honeycomb and WinRT were viewed as fragmentation, I think somehow it won’t be viewed the same with iPadOS
- Moto7451 7y agoI think the tooling that’s rolling out to support building apps for each platform flavor (Marzipan, Catalyst, SwiftUI) make this a lot easier. There’s also always been a bias in some dev circles towards making dedicated iPad experiences and not just scaling the iPhone app UI. I think Apple has had the benefit of market position to let it take a long time to come to this point rather than needing to differentiate platforms to try to leapfrog over a competitor.
- coldtea 7y ago>Honeycomb and WinRT were viewed as fragmentation, I think somehow it won’t be viewed the same with iPadOS iPadOS runs in at most 10-20 devices (and all are iPad models). HoneyComb and WinRT run on hundreds and hundreds of devices, with widely different capabilities. So there's that fragmentation there too.
- rchaud 7y agoWinRT ran on the original Surface RT and maybe 2 Asus devices. After less than a year Asus bounced, as nobody wanted a Windows equivalent of a Chromebook. Even MS themselves killed the OS well before discontinuing the Windows Phone division altogether.