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As against all the awesome tables OSes and applications on competing devices? I think it's just that growing tablets to be competitive with desktops is either
by simonh 5y ago
As against all the awesome tables OSes and applications on competing devices?
I think it's just that growing tablets to be competitive with desktops is either really, really hard or just not reasonable to expect. As a form factor, for all that I love it and you'd have to tear my iPad out of my cold dead hands, it just has inherent limitations to go with it's strengths.
- rovr138 5y ago> As against all the awesome tables OSes and applications on competing devices? Not them, but my argument would be compared against a full desktop OS. I love the form factor and for smaller things, if I had a full blown OS, I would be able to do so much more and not carry both my laptop and my iPad.
- simonh 5y agoI'm glad Apple are putting in better support for keyboards and touch pads in iPadOS. It makes sense that these can improve usability in a lot of use cases. However I don't use those and even if I did iPad apps must always be usable without them. I think that imposes significant limitations. Some of the more powerful apps I use on my iPad have quite fiddly interfaces that would be fine on a desktop, but are really awkward on the tablet. It is getting better, but very slowly as developers figure out how to adapt to the form factor. The new Multitasking interface does look like a big improvement though. Hopefully that will help developers to step up a bit.