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A touch based OS is fundamentally different from a mouse based OS. There’s much to improve in ipadOS, but making it macOS is not a solution. What I’d like is mo
by skydhash 3y ago
A touch based OS is fundamentally different from a mouse based OS. There’s much to improve in ipadOS, but making it macOS is not a solution. What I’d like is more interoperability (files) between apps instead of them having their silo. And less restrictions about building your own apps (if someone wants a virtualization app to run macOS, let them be)
- al_borland 3y agoSteve Jobs said the last area of complexity they needed to solve for was the file system, as many users found it confusing. From what I understand, this is why iOS and iPadOS were app based instead of file based. Eventually they got a file browser, but it took years and a lot of bad and weird conventions were established before that happened. When asked about the keyboard being confusing for people back in the 80s, Jobs said death would take care of it. If he has that same view on the file system, iOS and iPad OS would probably look very different today.
- skydhash 3y agoBefore, workflows happened outside of computers, so integration was not required. The computer was a tool used in specific part of those workflows, and each app was discrete. Now we have lots of thing happening digitally and often whole workflows start and end on the computer. Data processing should be continuous and not discrete steps. A good solution I've seen is the File provider API [1]. One example is Working Copy. Each repository you clone is available from the Files app. An app like Textastic can then link a folder or a file to its working space. But so many apps (PDF Experts) are reluctant to add that (local files, not online storage). [1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/fileprovider https://developer.apple.com/documentation/fileprovider