Comment by benoau

2 days ago

> I think there’s just a kind of techie who desperately wishes they could do everything on an iPad

I think if the hardware differences really mattered Sidecar wouldn't exist, Mac wouldn't run iOS apps, iPhone wouldn't stream to Mac, and the AVP wouldn't stream/run apps from both platforms.

Would those devices be better if their software was strictly siloed from each other?

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troupo  2 days ago

> Would those devices be better if their software was strictly siloed from each other?

Yes, yes they would. You would get software actually designed to fully exploit the capabilities of the device. And not, for example, shitty lazy port of mobile apps to MacOS

  • benoau  2 days ago

    > You would get software actually designed to fully exploit the capabilities of the device.

    Or you would just have a void where that hypothetical software could be, and this is what actually happened to the iPad (and AVP).