jpellino

Ya know...

For someone who remembers what it took to draw a single static line on the screen on an Apple ][, this sort of thing is fundamentally amazing and also just plain amazing.  

Glad there are still new things to try with interface elements.  

Really?  This is the result of a small percentage of the human race who didn't like the ad, amplified by the "everyone run to the same side of the boat" effect that social media creates.  
I may have suggested a funnel - or some other metaphor - but in no way is Apple suggesting destroying creatives' traditional tools.  GB / Logic can still record real instruments, the art tools can still photograph and scan real things / art / etc.  I've not been to Apple Park, but in a foyer over at the old Cupertino campus there were three physical objects featured:  an enshrined Apple I board, a BMW motorcycle (Steve's old one), and a Bosendorfer grand piano (Steve bought it originally for the Mac team.)  Alan Kay's only professional affiliation was (maybe still is?) membership in a musical antiquity society (his interest in traditional pipe organs).  Apple features and applauds craftsmanship and creativity.  Tools evolve, but they never go away.  This won't kill them either.  

Halle-freakin-lujah!

At the very least release it for iPadOS.  Design consistency in macOS would be nice, but Apple - it's a basic app - stop me from installing pCalc on all 3 platforms.  
pCalc is great, but it can't have the same design on all 3 platforms either.  Close, but annoyingly not the same.  

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