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An assumption, but it seems to me and many others that they’ve been slowly moving to make macOS more touch interface friendly. I’m typically anti-touch screen

An assumption, but it seems to me and many others that they’ve been slowly moving to make macOS more touch interface friendly. I’m typically anti-touch screen on laptops as it drives the price up for a feature I personally almost never use, but there’s so many use cases particularly for a large portion of Apple’s user base working with digital media. Aside: A Lenovo Yoga -like MacBook would be cool, although I do like the Touch Bar for quickly moving around in media I’m listening to in the background (but I don’t think that’s enough to justify it).

cabalos 5y ago
I have a theory that they’re not actually intending to make it more touch friendly but rather they are trying to unify the interfaces between MacOS and iPadOS for when iPadOS supersedes MacOS. Slowly boiling the frog, so you don’t notice when they move iPadOS to the desktop.
- eyelidlessness 5y ago
  It’s almost this but less extreme. They’re trying to unify the interfaces because they want to return to offering one app platform that isn’t sharply split. iOS started as an OS X variant with special consideration for touch, but forked Cocoa. The unification that’s happening now isn’t about bringing iOS to Macs, it’s about merging Cocoa-next back into upstream.
  - cabalos 5y ago
    I could see that. The reason I think it could be more extreme is the AppStore. I don’t have stats to back this up, but I would assume they make far more money from the iOS/iPadOs AppStore than Mac AppStore. It never truly caught on with the Mac, likely due to the long history of loading your own apps. Apple would love nothing more than to break this cycle.
mr_toad 5y ago
Management types seem to love poking at things. I’m not entirely joking - most of the Surface and iPad users I see at work are management/project-management.

cabalos 5y ago

I have a theory that they’re not actually intending to make it more touch friendly but rather they are trying to unify the interfaces between MacOS and iPadOS for when iPadOS supersedes MacOS. Slowly boiling the frog, so you don’t notice when they move iPadOS to the desktop.

eyelidlessness 5y ago
It’s almost this but less extreme. They’re trying to unify the interfaces because they want to return to offering one app platform that isn’t sharply split. iOS started as an OS X variant with special consideration for touch, but forked Cocoa. The unification that’s happening now isn’t about bringing iOS to Macs, it’s about merging Cocoa-next back into upstream.
- cabalos 5y ago
  I could see that. The reason I think it could be more extreme is the AppStore. I don’t have stats to back this up, but I would assume they make far more money from the iOS/iPadOs AppStore than Mac AppStore. It never truly caught on with the Mac, likely due to the long history of loading your own apps. Apple would love nothing more than to break this cycle.

mr_toad 5y ago

Management types seem to love poking at things. I’m not entirely joking - most of the Surface and iPad users I see at work are management/project-management.