FYI, there are transcoding apps on the App Store. HandBrake is just a well known wrapper around some open source video encoding frameworks/libraries that several apps use.
Because the fringe and the mainstream USED to have needs that overlapped and it made the fringe THINK they were mainstream. Even though it’s clear they’re not anymore, it’s hard for them to let go of that feeling where everything with an Apple on it was something “made for them”. When you read posts like “I don’t see who would need this” you’re picking up on their frustration. Or, any post complaining about Memoji. LOL
Yes they are different philosophies but from everything I've seen so far, I think Windows 11 will succeed where Windows 8 failed. I genuinely think MS finally has a legit answer to macOS and iPadOS without the need to create to separate OS's or devices.
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What are the basic tasks like school work that require multitasking that the iPad can’t do? Having a paper open and a website open side by side copying from one to the other? Or, something the Mac can’t do, independently scrolling the paper and the website at the same time (like actual multi-window multitasking, which is impossible on a Mac as it only has one pointer).
Agree with this and like yourself, I don't think macOS and iPadOS will merge either. But if Apple's goal with the iPad / iPadOS is to make it nothing more than an accessory to the Mac, I think that's a fail. If you look at Apple's history, everytime they came out with a newer and better technology, the company went all in on it to the point where it cannibalized and replaced the previous technology. The Mac went on to eventually replace the Apple II / Apple Lisa. The iPhone went to replace the iPod. I would love to see Apple, as a company, go all in on iPadOS and have it be a legit rival to macOS to the point where one day it can replace macOS.
Apple’s hardware designed closely with Apple’s software in mind is what makes Apple devices things that people with he money to buy them want to buy. Microsoft has the potential to make the hardware their software requires, but they won’t because they don’t want to irritate their OEM’s. The OEM’s will keep pumping out the same ol’ same ol’, meaning that Windows 11 will continue the thread of what Microsoft has always been, “good enough” if you just don’t like Apple, but we won’t see any new paradigms coming from it.
You are right. There a many people who have iPads but not Macintoshes. They have sold 100 million Macintosh systems and 400 million iPads.
That is very much what they seem to feel. The right tool for the right job.
I am not sure they ever felt that, but they certainly do not now.
I disagree. When Apple came out with the "What's a Computer?" ad showcasing the 10.5" iPad Pro, I genuinely think they were headed in the direction of replacing the Mac. Obviously something has changed since then. As an aside, here's a thought provoking article from someone who's an avid iPad Pro user like yourself
I disagree. When Apple came out with the "What's a Computer?" ad showcasing the 10.5" iPad Pro, I genuinely think they were headed in the direction of replacing the Mac. Obviously something has changed since then. As an aside, here's a thought provoking article from someone who's an avid iPad Pro user like yourself
Reflections on the iPad Pro after WWDC
As an avid iPad Pro user, Dr. Brooks focuses on the user community’s response to iPadOS 15 and iPad Pro in the wake of WWDC.www.macobserver.com
I’ll have four to five simultaneous things open to copy between, sometimes multiple audio/video streams. Nothing intense, just beyond what iPadOS is designed to allow.
Well, I’m sure you’re aware that what you’ve defined can’t realistically be called “basic” for your average person. For you, it’s “basic school work”, but the vast majority will never approach that. A lot of folks say “iPad can’t do basic stuff”, then when you ask them to clarify, it’s usually some very specialized case, which, granted, there’s a LOT the iPad can’t do and may never do. There’s very little “basic” that it can’t do, though.
It would be similar to Apple II users that wanted the Mac to be more like the Apple II. There were just very few easily internet accessible international connections for folks to find an audience. Everyone else in the Local Apple User Group would be talking about the cool things they can do with their Mac, and a few holdouts would just stop going to them
Yes, but there's always two ways to look at the liquid in the glass, isn't there?While we first saw it in a Mac, I’ve always seen the M1 as putting an iPad chip in a Mac. I mean, they’d been calling them “desktop class” for so long, it was bound to happen
FWIW, many times I tried running MacOS on a 12.9" iPad by way of a high speed VNC program - in essence, I was actually using my Mac, but the iPad was a remote touch screen for it. And - it was simply unusable. The reason was the that GUI elements in MacOS are not scaled up for touch. Even though they work great with a mouse and pointer, everything was far too small to use by touch.
Keeping with that analogy, the Mac went to replace the Apple II because the Mac represented the "future" of personal computing at that time. Coming back to the present, iPadOS today, represents the future of personal computing and there's no reason that iPadOS can't be a legit rival to macOS and ultimately replace the latter. Just like the Mac ultimately replaced the Apple II.
