You know, this thing could actually be useful (if it runs Mac apps) or completely useless and stupid (if it doesn't).
I wonder which one will happen?
I don’t know. We’re seeing more Mac apps come to iOS anyway. Some of the iOS versions are better and some need more updating to competely get there. I’m not concerned though. We’ll get new apps that can’t be done in iOS or MacOS. But it will take time. This won’t be an instant fully featured thing with every app we want. That figures. Look at the iPhone. The first year it only had the built in apps. Next year, with the App Store, it had 512 more. Now it has 2 million, with a million for the iPad. Who could have predicted that the first year the phone came out?
So I think we need to sit back and not get riled up about what might be there or what might not be there. Apparently Apple won’t be able to sell more than about 400,000 the first year anyway. I’ll try to get one, but likely won’t be able to.
Doing the same thing as a Mac app doesn't make them Mac apps. Safari was first on macOS. The same for Mail, Calendar, etc. but these aren't simply "Mac apps" because they have the same name and provide the same core function as the Mac app. They are designed for that device type. You can now run actual iOS and iPadOS apps on your M-series Macs and at one point could run iPhone apps on your iPad, but that feature was deprecated a long time ago in favor of apps designed for the iPad.
I didn’t say they were Mac apps. I said that we’re seeing more Mac apps coming to iOS, which is true, and has been for a while. Look at Logic Pro and FCP as two recent examples from Apple. We see Adobe doing similar things and Resolve is on the iPad now too.
of course they need to be modified to work with a touch system, as iPad apps need to work with a mouse when on a Mac, or now, with the keyboard for the iPad using the trackpad.
I can still run iPhone apps on my iPad. That happens when there is no iPad version from the developer.
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of course they need to be modified to work with a touch system, as iPad apps need to work with a mouse when on a Mac, or now, with the keyboard for the iPad using the trackpad.
I can still run iPhone apps on my iPad. That happens when there is no iPad version from the developer.
I don’t understand the point you’re making.