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Comment by no_wizard

1 month ago

This is changing with iPadOS, but the market needs to catch up with that. It supports a mouse and keyboard really really well now

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bigyabai  1 month ago

> the market needs to catch up with that

By that token, touchscreen laptops will replace the iPad any day now.

I think the preeminent issue is that touch-native UIs are very imprecise and clunky by nature. The iPad makes a great MIDI controller; it's an awful mixer or plugin host compared to a regular laptop running regular PC plugins. Buying a mouse or keyboard won't port Omnisphere or the U-He plugins to iPad. I doubt the market will ever "catch up" in that regard.