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Not a chance. They'd lose 99% of the serious developers. I couldn't imagine doing app development without 5 terminals, photoshop, xcode, and a web browser open at the same time; running git, grep and a series of shell scripts invoking all kinds of unix tools and imagemagick and ffmpeg and so on. If iOS can ever deliver that then we've gone full circle back to macOS.

To be productive you need big monitors and overlapping windows and terminals and drag&drop, and beyond a physical keyboard you need a pointing device that doesn't require you to cover the things you are looking at with your fingers. And nobody wants to sit for 8 hours a day stretching their arms out to touch a monitor or crouch over a tablet on a table.

[rarepostinlurkr]

The way you imagine productivity works like that. The past is funny, because it seems like that way worked for us and so it should be good enough for anyone.

As I watch my kids using iPads regularly, I realize they don't really know anything at all about a 'desktop' or why its so complicated. We can argue well they need to learn how a computer works, its important etc etc. Maybe they don't for the most part and could just build on top of our knowledge base to get to the next place. We are the old people telling kids to get off our lawn.

[banku_brougham]

exactly. the future of productivity looks like high-waisted pants and talking to your OS. offices will still be open-plan.

[informatimago]

Good luck mixing vocal user interface and open-plan offices!

[flukus]

So your saying it would take.... courage!