Comment by 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
> 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).
iPad could run iOS software since forever. Did it help iPad?
Compared to having even less software? Yes.
Compared to a hypothetical scenario where developers care to build iPad apps? No.
I don't think the availability of iPhone apps on iPad is what derailed development of iPad apps either, practically all the ROI building software for Apple hardware comes from impulse spending on the iPhone and even with 500+ million iPads in circulation today it doesn't come close.
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