matthew poplinIt feels like that time of year again when i start to think is iPadOS enough for me?
Jamie Froggatt@matthewpoplin In absence of any progress from Apple on the coding situation, I’ve got my eye on Ethan Lipnik’s Mirage - it’s meant to bring macOS windows to iPadOS (or other Macs) via macOS’s per-window screen sharing, using accessibility APIs to match window sizes. In theory you’d never need to touch the Mac.
@SalvagedTechnic is there any video or anything to show this works?
@matthewpoplin I think there might be a couple over on X, I don’t really venture over there.
The lag-free streaming engine is the unbelievable part for me, but that’s open source on Github already under a no-compete license, and the site is actually live already and you can download a version of the host app and see the pricing structure.
It’s very much a case of “I’ll believe it when I see it”, but it’s a very much executable idea and I love it.
@SalvagedTechnic im thinking if they are actually going to have a touch based MacBook this year + this rumor of neo gen 2 might be touched based we might see iPad Pro’s get some type of macOS software in it.
Heck maybe make all three OS’s under one OS and be expandable.
Heck maybe make all three OS’s under one OS and be expandable.
@matthewpoplin I hope so, yet I dare not hope. 😅
I think it’s inevitable, but I see Apple dragging it out another decade if they can afford to.
It’s wasteful, making two such similar OSs without unifying them somehow. It’s also competitive to add new features, so competition ought to force it eventually.
Matt Birchler’s videos have been great, making the point the iPhone Fold will force *something* on the OS unification front.
@SalvagedTechnic with iPhone folding out to iPad size, Mac laptops getting phone chips, Mac laptops getting touch screens. It does lay down the question of where does one product end and another begins.