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I thought Catalina just deprecated 32-bit apps? iPadOS on the other hand is inching towards a desktop-like OS, ofcourse based on Apple's in-house ARM chips.
by spectramax 7y ago
I thought Catalina just deprecated 32-bit apps?
iPadOS on the other hand is inching towards a desktop-like OS, ofcourse based on Apple's in-house ARM chips.
- wolfgke 7y ago> iPadOS on the other hand is inching towards a desktop-like OS, ofcourse based on Apple's in-house ARM chips. A desktop-like OS better includes lots of capabilities for development and debugging, e.g. attaching a debugger to a process, memory dumps, compiling and executing code etc. I do not believe that this fits Apple's plans and philosophy for iOS.
- dkersten 7y agoThat's a very developer-centric view of what a "desktop-like" OS needs to have. Most users of desktop-like OSes don't care about these things. They're clearly not going after software developers for iOS, but that doesn't mean its not their plan to make it more desktop-like or compete with desktops for the non-pro markets.
- dkersten 7y agoI should add that I use my 9.7” iPad Pro for all my day to day computing needs except development.
- flatiron 7y agothat helps tremendously though if they plan on having an amd64 emulation layer, they don't need to bother in emulating 32 bit x86 (or the other legacy modes that x86 has).