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I really wonder if this will result in the Mac-ification of iPad. Would love to finally run a MacOS environment on a tablet.
by ericzawo 6y ago
I really wonder if this will result in the Mac-ification of iPad. Would love to finally run a MacOS environment on a tablet.
- AlexandrB 6y agoIt seems to be going the other way actually. MacOS Big Sur looks like iPadOS with a menu bar tacked on.
- zepto 6y agoIt’s going both ways - iPadOS now has drop down menus at the top, etc.
- snuxoll 6y agoWhat they did to Finder is just...unacceptable.
- m12k 6y agoI highly recommend Path Finder as a replacement anyway
- AlexandrB 6y agoHoping there's a way to switch to a more compact view, but as shown in the keynote it looks terrible. What is with the insistence on wasting space in modern operating systems? Were people getting too productive with new, large displays?
- chadlavi 6y agoyeah all the UI updates this year seem to be on the theme of stitching up the gaps between macOS and iPadOS. I'm guessing that when the "two year" transition to all-ARM arch on the mac is complete, they'll merge them.
- j0hnml 6y agoAlso interesting that the dev kits use the same chip as the latest iPad Pros (A12Z). I’d love to see the two OSes merge to some extent because I love writing on the tablet but find iPadOS not the best for general dev work.
- ericzawo 6y agoOh, 1,000%. Even basic tasks like working on a file, then pasting said file to a cloud storage app and then to an email/slack channel take an order of magnitude longer than it would on a computer. Long way to go before the iPad becomes a true Pro machine, but for some fields, it's basically there. Still, such simple quality of life improves that are mainstay/muscle memory on computers essentially take time and animations and taps to execute.
- jandrese 6y agoAlready Apple is making it a headache to run non-signed apps on the Mac. I don't think they're going to slow down the "convergence" of iOS and MacOS at this point.