Re:The relationship between mindset and getting old
by ianai on Monday June 12, 2017 @02:27AM
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All of their products used to behave much more synergistically. There was a real feel when you bought an iPod and hooked it up to your iMac that the two popped together. Now, an iPad barely ever needs to even touch a Mac or even PC. The technology is at the point where it ought to be possible to offload display/UI tasks to an iPad - but you can't in an integrated way. They really need to tie their whole product lines together again (through synergistic features).
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Re:The relationship between mindset and getting old
by photojosh on Monday June 12, 2017 @11:33PM
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Not iPad as much as iPhone, but do you use Handoff? I do all the time, between work and home MBP, my phone and watch. For iMessage, web pages, emails, phone calls, etc.
I feel like the only thing we've actually lost was the requirement to use iTunes to set up a new iDevice, and good riddance to that. An iPod really was a peripheral whereas their modern successors are fully-fledged mobile computers.
If you mean use an iPad as an external display, that's a rather niche use. Is there a reason that the 3rd party app Duet Display doesn't meet your needs?