Steve Troughton-SmithVerified account

The problem is in your tweet though ‘dumbing down’ of Macs. iOS can get away with being so limited and restricted because the Mac exists to actually get work done on. Apple’s locking down the Mac without opening up iOS. But my requirements haven’t ‘dumbed down’ and still aren’t…

…possible on iOS. So I rely on the Mac to actually get things done. If they make Mac as feature incomplete and limited as iOS I’m not suddenly going to decide to give in and use iOS, I just won’t be able to do those tasks anymore at all.

I loved the iPad originally I wanted it to take over. But I expected Apple to make the iPad fantastic, make it so good everyone moves to it because it’s better and naturally leaves the Mac behind. Apple hasn’t done that, the iPad is still artificially crippled…

By dumbing down macOS it’s like Apple is trying to force Mac users down into iOS’s limitations and use cases by making macs worse, rather than improving iOS until we want to switch. Rather than make it so obviously better switching is the obvious choice!

‘macs heaviness allows iOS to be so light’ If Mac and iOS are bridges, iOS is a very pretty for bridge. Macs are concrete roadways. iOS looks great, but you can’t drive a truck across it. Rather than make iOS’s bridge more capable Apple removing supports and…

…adding diversions to direct people onto iOS artificially, despite that meaning for lots of users they have to pull over and walk carrying their stuff across instead of driving across.

And, no, the people using the term ‘post pc’ back when it was an actual thing were speaking of an actual future (that did not wind up occuring) where tablets *replaced* PCs for lots of people - most people.

I think this actually happened. My wife, for example, never touches her macbook & only uses an ipad pro. My parents (!) got an ipad for travel and probly use it much more than their imacs. Most folks never needed a full PC, they jst had to use one since there was nothing better

And that’s the thing - the actual users of the iPad (non pros, who are not lesser than pros but do have different needs - are in line with mine and not Steve’s) are harmed by Apple’s effort to force the iPad into a pro platform. Apple has made everything harder & removed all joy

I look at the iPad, iPhone etc and wonder if they’re too complicated for the ‘normal’ user. Turns out the normal user just gets on with it.

Let me know if they can figure out the new side-by-side gesture thing. :///

It infuriates me every time i try to use it. I had to google how to turn it off the first few times!

I think this may be frustration from the perception that Apple has largely just paid lip service to “Post-PC” while simultaneously neglecting *both* macOS and *iPad iOS* for years, as iPad prices *soared*, and Mac hardware fell off a cliff. It doesn’t feel like the future.

.....what? how does fucking up Disk Utility relate to iOS? Also, we don’t use the term ‘post PC’ anymore. It’s not 2012.