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I liked it better when it was a slab of glass that could become a bunch of different tools on-demand, with some light ability to pass info between the tools. An

I liked it better when it was a slab of glass that could become a bunch of different tools on-demand, with some light ability to pass info between the tools. And I think discoverability in iOS generally has been trending down fast since iOS7 came out. I don't know any of the new crap, I just accidentally do new stuff sometimes then have to figure out how to make it go away. iOS6+iPad: the most recent mainstream OS & device I'd feel sort-of OK about saddling my elderly computer-illiterate relatives with.

Ididntdothis 7y ago
Especially with iPadOS I feel they are slowly back to building a full size desktop OS but they don’t want to admit that to themselves so they keep pretending to be as simple as the first iOS versions were.
- josteink 7y ago
  We have gigabytes of RAM, multiple CPU cores and terabyte of storage. We’re also allowing concurrent multitasking. Even more: We’re going full USB-C, you can connect hard drives, mice, keyboards and monitors. But no, no, no! This is not a PC! Yeah, I don’t buy it either.
- chooseaname 7y ago
  Maybe because a lot of people don't want a desktop OS that is that locked down, so Apple is slowly trying to get people used to it?
  - scarface74 7y ago
    The number of people that care about Apple’s “walled garden” and that they can’t ssh into the filesystem is much smaller than geeks thinks it is.
    - Teever 7y ago
      And that is currently the case for two reasons. The first is that people use their desktops/laptops for things theycant do in the walled garden and the second is that Apple has not finished building the wall as high as they want it to be. Rest assured if Apple made a full transition to a restrictive walled garden more people would take issue with it. They don't right now because Apple is slowly boiling the frog.
      - scarface74 7y ago
        Seeing that the Mac App Store was introduced a decade ago, that’s a really slow boil....
xnzakg 7y ago
Well, one of the nice things about a split screen view is that you don't need two iPads if you want to open a pdf on one and write notes on another, which is a problem I have with my reMarkable tablet. There's definitely better ways of implementing that than the way iPadOS currently does it though.
- bla3 7y ago
  Out of interest, what's a better way that you have in mind? I agree that the current state isn't great, but I can't think of better approaches. So I'd be curious to hear about your ideas :)

Ididntdothis 7y ago

Especially with iPadOS I feel they are slowly back to building a full size desktop OS but they don’t want to admit that to themselves so they keep pretending to be as simple as the first iOS versions were.

josteink 7y ago
We have gigabytes of RAM, multiple CPU cores and terabyte of storage. We’re also allowing concurrent multitasking. Even more: We’re going full USB-C, you can connect hard drives, mice, keyboards and monitors. But no, no, no! This is not a PC! Yeah, I don’t buy it either.
chooseaname 7y ago
Maybe because a lot of people don't want a desktop OS that is that locked down, so Apple is slowly trying to get people used to it?
- scarface74 7y ago
  The number of people that care about Apple’s “walled garden” and that they can’t ssh into the filesystem is much smaller than geeks thinks it is.
  - Teever 7y ago
    And that is currently the case for two reasons. The first is that people use their desktops/laptops for things theycant do in the walled garden and the second is that Apple has not finished building the wall as high as they want it to be. Rest assured if Apple made a full transition to a restrictive walled garden more people would take issue with it. They don't right now because Apple is slowly boiling the frog.
    - scarface74 7y ago
      Seeing that the Mac App Store was introduced a decade ago, that’s a really slow boil....

xnzakg 7y ago

Well, one of the nice things about a split screen view is that you don't need two iPads if you want to open a pdf on one and write notes on another, which is a problem I have with my reMarkable tablet. There's definitely better ways of implementing that than the way iPadOS currently does it though.

bla3 7y ago
Out of interest, what's a better way that you have in mind? I agree that the current state isn't great, but I can't think of better approaches. So I'd be curious to hear about your ideas :)