| So you don't have any actual facts to back up your earlier statement. Meanwhile in reality: https://medium.com/backchannel/exclusive-why-apple-is-still-... "“From the ergonomic standpoint we have studied this pretty extensively and we believe that on a desktop scenario where you have a fixed keyboard, having to reach up to do touch interfaces is uncomfortable,” says Schiller. “iOS from its start has been designed as a multi-touch experience — you don’t have the things you have in a mouse-driven interface, like a cursor to move around, or teeny little ‘close’ boxes that you can’t hit with your finger. The Mac OS has been designed from day one for an indirect pointing mechanism. These two worlds are different on purpose, and that’s a good thing — we can optimize around the best experience for each and not try to mesh them together into a least-common-denominator experience." -- Phil Schiller http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/tim-cook-apple... "We feel strongly that customers are not really looking for a converged Mac and iPad,” said Cook. “Because what that would wind up doing, or what we’re worried would happen, is that neither experience would be as good as the customer wants. So we want to make the best tablet in the world and the best Mac in the world. And putting those two together would not achieve either. You’d begin to compromise in different ways." -- Tim Cook You're unable to develop software using OS X. Other people do not seem to be so impaired. If you think Notification Center is an example of important UI convergence, it doesn't take much imagination to come up with possible explanations. |
"Yes, the iPad Pro is a replacement for a notebook or a desktop for many, many people. They will start using it and conclude they no longer need to use anything else, other than their phones."
So I guess maybe we should ask Tim Cook how he really feels? Maybe you should go and write increasingly smug and demeaning hacker news posts at him. I'm sure he'll be as intimidated as I am.
> "“From the ergonomic standpoint we have studied this pretty extensively and we believe that on a desktop scenario where you have a fixed keyboard, having to reach up to do touch interfaces is uncomfortable,” says Schiller.
Just an aside: what a load of absolute horseshit. Just another example of how relentlessly people fall in line with the Apple party line on experience even as experts in UX and UI say, "They are doing nearly everything wrong."
I reach up from a keyboard to a touch surface every day, and it was a revelation when I finally could. You need it maybe once an hour, but the precision of scaling and translation gestures is far greater and the operation way more natural with your hand.
So Phil's statement is either garbage or terribly dated, and independent testing bears that out. But whatever. You're saying that Apple doesn't believe the iPad Touch is a laptop replacement.
> You're unable to develop software using OS X.
No. That's not true. I just prefer not to. The SDK's first substantial change since the days of OpenSTEP was the modernizations brought on by Swift, which themselves feel dated and poorly thought out. Sadly, we don't get many other choices that can match the native look and feel. Its dated and platform locked and Apple's made sure it can't pay out well except in a few categories.
But hey, what do I know. It's not like I've been in charge of shipping successful, highly featured and widely acclaimed iOS apps... What do I know?