MacBook Neo and How the iPad Should Be
6 hours ago
- #Apple Ecosystem
- #iPad vs MacBook
- #Operating System Design
- The iPad should be radically touch-only, without keyboards, pointers, mice, or trackpads, and each app should fill the entire screen.
- iPadOS should be unique, focused on finger-poking joy with fluid, bouncy, and precise interactions, unlike desktop OSes or scaled-up iOS.
- MacBooks should remain keyboard-first, avoiding touch screens to maintain speed and fluency, with macOS optimized for keyboard-driven workflows.
- The iPad Pro had latent hardware power but was hampered by iPadOS, lacking pro software capabilities and workflow efficiency compared to MacBooks.
- Apple's M1 MacBooks revitalized the lineup, making macOS a preferred platform for serious work and LLM tools, while iPadOS stagnated.
- Apple has misguidedly blurred lines between iPadOS and macOS, adding macOS-like features to iPadOS and tightening macOS, diluting both platforms' strengths.
- A streamlined strategy is proposed: iPads as touch-only, simplified devices with rebuilt iPadOS, and MacBooks as keyboard-focused tools with no touch screens.