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These Are Not Two Separate Devices
- PaulHoule 2y agoI used to carry a desktop replacement laptop but now my “go” kit is an ordinary iPad, when I want to do heavy computing I use a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse and log into a desktop Windows machine with RDP. Maybe 10 years ago I would go to hackathons with a similar kit but based on a cheap Fire tablet and a cheap plastic clip to hold it. It is a hassle if you want to do keyboard stuff with it on your lap but if you have a desk available it is sleek compared to any laptop and gets more attention than a macbook or gaming laptop. I have some sense of what an unleashed iPad would look like, maybe we’ll get it. Two big developments in the last 20 years that have gone into different directions. One is video game emulation which proves the universality of computing, the other is the phone/computer split which obscures it. (So often if you know your Turing you’ll encounter some youngster that says something like “Silly Boomer, don’t you a phone is one thing and a computer is another thing?”)
- tony-allan 2y agoThe underlying OS is already the same, just a different UI layer. You can run iPad apps on a Mac. All we need is Mac apps on an iPad. It would be great if I was able to run an app on a Mac then pickup an iPad and continue using the app on the iPad. I don’t need to know if the app moves from one device to another or if I just get a seamless remote screen. More broadly I want to pickup any Apple device and run any app, access any of my data — all seamlessly. An iPad app shown on an Apple TV using data from my Mac, audio into my AirPods and haptic feedback on my watch. I know I can already do some of this but I want it to be a universal feature where I can do it all.
- beardyw 2y agoEven the most ardent Apple fans acknowledging that their devices are constrained by design. Why then complain about it?