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canukstorm said:

macplusplus said:

tht said:

It's frustrating when the question is when the Mac will get a touchscreen, or when the iPad can run macOS. I'd prefer to ask when iPadOS will get better multitasking, a better audio subsystem, a Terminal app, a VM app, a better filesystem app, a better virtual keyboard, a virtual trackpad, better text selection, etc. So, a touch first OS with more functionality.

The trackpad is better than the  touchscreen for heavy or speedy workloads. Put a touchscreen on a Macbook no one will use it, because it is always faster with the trackpad because of its small area and relatively higher pointing speed.

" Put a touchscreen on a Macbook no one will use it" => If Mark Gurman is right, touch screens are coming to Macbooks in 2 years.

Well, no one will use them. A touch screen without a detachable display doesn't make sense. Those exist already, buy a Windows "convertible" if you absolutely believe that you need a touch screen on a laptop. Touch Bar anyone?...

tht said:

It's frustrating when the question is when the Mac will get a touchscreen, or when the iPad can run macOS. I'd prefer to ask when iPadOS will get better multitasking, a better audio subsystem, a Terminal app, a VM app, a better filesystem app, a better virtual keyboard, a virtual trackpad, better text selection, etc. So, a touch first OS with more functionality.

The trackpad is better than the  touchscreen for heavy or speedy workloads. Put a touchscreen on a Macbook no one will use it, because it is always faster with the trackpad because of its small area and relatively higher pointing speed.

The "lock in" argument holds no water because Apple doesn't prohibit the migration of user data to other platforms. Samsung has a "Smart Switch" app that allows to connect an iPhone to a Samsung phone and that replicates the exact home screen layout, installed apps, photos, messages and alike on the Samsung phone (except the beautiful iOS icons that transform to weird fat Samsung counterparts). The Mac version of the same app allows to backup a Samsung phone to a Mac and perform file exchange between the two.  So the industry regulates that issue internally to preserve competition. They don't need any help from the trolls of the gigantic Brussels bureaucracy. That shows their true intentions are fundamentally different: they target the Cloud industry and strive to create a state-forced and state-controlled Unified European Cloud.

Well, not the end of the world. Apple has already a working macOS app model in place.

(x) Allow only apps from AppStore
(_) Allow apps from third party app stores. 

rob53 said:

neoncat said:

JWSC said:

Does this indicate Adobe’s decline in relevance?  Years ago I was all in on Adobe.  But they priced themselves out of the non-commercial market and I dropped them like a hot potato.

What a weird take. But I get it, you just wanted to old-man-at-clouds about Adobe's subscription pricing. Go ahead and review every other structured drawing program on the Mac or iOS. Guess what file format they all use—some of them wrapped in their own file package, but they're all EPS at the core. It's *the* mathematical model for object drawing.

More I'd say it indicates Preview.app's decline in relevance. 

I wouldn't say drawing programs on macOS use EPS at its core but every printer uses Postscript as its print file. PDF files are simply a combination of images and Postscript codes. Does this mean that Ventura Preview doesn't support the opening of PDF files? There has to be some reason Apple isn't talking about this limitation. The support file only says what's in the AI article. I have to wonder if you simply change the extension of a Postscript file to .pdf and see if it opens. This has nothing to do with any perceived Adobe decline, they will be around forever because PDF is a standard and Adobe wrote it. The non-commercial market isn't what keeps major applications around, it's the commercial market.

PDF is based on PostScript but a PDF file is different from .ps file. A .ps file is printer-dependent, PDF is printer-independent. Since .ps is generated by the printer driver, it includes all the setup environment specific to the printer and it will fail on another printer. Preview is PDF, it cannot be otherwise because Quartz, the very graphic core of macOS, is based on PDF. So PDF is intrinsic to macOS and it will remain so until another graphic model replaces Quartz.