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Re:Apple walks Ars through the iPad Pro’s A12X system on a chip by dharma1 on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @06:02PM (#18403114)
I worked on Ubuntu Touch (specifically convergence) for a few years.

I think it's really interesting what Apple are trying to do (with Marzipan, pro apps for iPad, desktop level SoC's) but I think they still have a couple of years work ahead of them. It's not an easy task, especially with so much legacy.

Getting Adobe and Autodesk to rewrite their flagship software for iOS was quite a good win, though I still wonder how those compare to the desktop versions

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Re:Apple walks Ars through the iPad Pro’s A12X system on a chip by jimbokun on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @07:41PM (#18403522)
"Getting Adobe and Autodesk to rewrite their flagship software for iOS was quite a good win"

Now if they could only get Apple to rewrite their flagship Pro software for iOS.

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Re:Apple walks Ars through the iPad Pro’s A12X system on a chip by dharma1 on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @08:23PM (#18403731)
Touche. I think perf is becoming less of an issue, it's more about design challenges around touch/pointer UI density, screen real estate (depending on what the range of supported screen sizes should be)
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Re:Apple walks Ars through the iPad Pro’s A12X system on a chip by nicoburns on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @07:31PM (#18403496)
Is there any reason apple couldn't just implement it so that the iPhone runs iOS normally (always) and boots into full macOS when in desktop mode? They share a kernel I believe, and the latest iPhones have plenty of disk space...
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