🔗 A blown up iPhone, not the next Mac

The fundamental nature of macOS enabled these new use cases without Apple needing to do anything at all. Not everyone is interested in this kind of cutting-edge software, and that is fine. But if you are someone who is interested in what the frontier of software is doing today, you can get all of it on the Mac right now. Source: A blown up iPhone, not the next Mac At its core, this is about tradeoffs. Apple seems to believe that the simplicity of iPad OS (and iOS) is possible ONLY at the expense of the flexibility and access provided by Mac OS. I am a huge fan of Mac OS. However, let’s also be clear that even Mac OS has its limits when it comes to extensibility. It’s the most open of Apple’s operating systems and we appreciate the trade-offs chosen by an Apple of yore. However, even Mac OS pales in comparison to the true extensibility of the Linux ecosystem. And as much as we might not choose its tradeoffs for daily-computing, it’s that spectrum where you have Linux on one end and iOS…