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> as a developer you can put anything you want on an external screen as a developer, not a user. I can’t have two different apps running on different displays,

> as a developer you can put anything you want on an external screen as a developer, not a user. I can’t have two different apps running on different displays, nor can I take advantage of the display’s resolution. In practice, everything is mirrored. > Almost all apps obviously take advantage of the keyboard When I say take advantage of the keyboard and mouse, I mean to offer shortcuts/navigation akin to what you’d find on a desktop. I don’t mean to say that apps should be exactly like desktop apps, but the iPad UX is making it harder to use the current iteration of document/spreadsheet apps. There are things the iPad does strictly better, of course. But I don’t see these experiences as mutually exclusive.

Grustaf 6y ago
It is true that the second screen is controlled by the current app, but I don’t think there are any other limitations. There are absolutely keyboard shortcuts. Obviously this is up to developers, a lot of apps like Things, Shapr3d etc have excellent shortcut support. It takes a while to optimise UX in a new interface paradigm, amd again this is obviously up to developers. There are few technical limitations. And considering how little Excel on the PC has changed over the last 20 years, we should be happy. And look at Numbers and Pages on iPad, really good UX.