When Apple remembers to make new iPads again (any day now.), one thing I'd really like to see is an end to the baby apps. I don't want a stripped-down, half-assed 'iPad experience’ for anything. It's been fourteen years and I'm so over it. Give me real desktop-class apps across iPadOS and visionOS, feature for feature, that can scale all the way up to power a 5K External Display or spatial computing workstation.
A reorderable toolbar doesn't make for a 'desktop-class app’.
@deeje @stroughtonsmith yes, exactly
if you can't write and distribute software on it, it's not really a proper computer
and i want to see them make Xcode on iPad with 100% SwiftUI without bailing out to UIKit
because if it can't make the most difficult studio UIs it's not really a proper UI framework
@riotnrrd @stroughtonsmith to me this is the real issue!
If I’m forced into the mobile experience on websites - I have to go get a Mac!
@Abazigal @stroughtonsmith I would say it’s both: Zoom knows few people use an iPad as their primary work computer, so the target audience is limited. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.
As long as Apple themselves don’t bother porting their productivity apps to the iPad in a feature-complete way, serious professional work on iPad is a bit like gaming on tvOS: it works in theory, and there’s some niche enthusiasts, but Apple isn’t serious enough about pursuing that market to make it go mainstream.
@stroughtonsmith I'm not familiar with the internals of that product line, but could it be because they want to maintain some consistency between the pro versions (which look like small computers, with M1/M2 chips and 8-16 GB RAM) and the other versions (that look more like big phones, with lower end ARM cores and significantly less RAM)?
(I'm not saying it's a good justification, but I wonder if that plays a role!)
@stroughtonsmith Feels like that will never happen when Apple policy apparently remains “buy an iPhone and an iPad and a laptop and a desktop and we will make it easy for you to make them all talk to each other”.
Although given my recent experiences with Apple, the words “frustratingly inconsistently” would need to be in there somewhere.
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