Steve Troughton-SmithFeb 2, 2023
I’m with @viticci — I’ll be honest, I’ve been hiding from iPadOS 16 and Stage Manager, and pretending it doesn’t exist. It’s hard to imagine a single feature being enough to evaporate years of enthusiasm for a platform, so maybe it’s just the final papercut in a long line of disappointments and ‘maybe it’ll be better next year’s. I’m real tired of the iPad, the computer form-factor I prefer, being hobbled because Apple chose to build two competing form-factor-specific computing platforms
Show threadChristopher MimsFeb 2, 2023

@stroughtonsmith @viticci I know this is straight-up heresy but one reason I moved my desktop computing to Chrome OS is that it's low-key the best OS that works for both tablet and desktop form factors (for my purposes)

I realize I'm niche 'cause I'm a writer so my whole toolchain is pretty simple!

Show threadFederico Viticci Feb 2, 2023
@mimsical I'm fascinated by this! Assume you're mostly using Google services? (Docs, Calendar, etc.)
Show threadChristopher Mims

@viticci yeah almost exclusively

I also use Notion; Zoom's pwa is great, these days pretty much everything is built for the web anyway -- even if it's an app, that's often just a wrapper around web protocols

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Show threadBud GibsonFeb 2, 2023
@mimsical @viticci I think many people don’t get the extent to which this is true. Often enough, what you think of as an app is just a specialized web browser (sometimes very specialized) e.g., obsidian, VS Code, all electron apps. It’s one reason I point out to marketing students that it’s still worth it to learn basic html. It at least let’s you understand the outline of what’s going on.