meh

oh yeah ipados is limited. the windowed gui option in 26 makes it more usable for keyboard/mouse if you’ve got a large screen model. but it still seems geared to sidecar usage not a standalone tablet computer. which makes the removal of sidecar a hilariously apple thing to do. honestly gnome on an old surface is a very solid competitor to ipados if you don’t need to do any creative work. and the issues i had when testing gnome and krita could have just been the cheaper 2nd hand hardware i used.

a touch screen macbook is already a thing, it’s just an ipad pro with a ‘magic’ keyboard. I used that set up as a daily driver at work for a couple years before getting to work remote. unless the failure to innovate continues on and they just make the macbook screen detachable like a surface book clone. before apple laid off all it’s vendor relations staff a few years ago they were constantly talking about the push to unify macOS and iOS UI. I suppose the default experience between macOS and iPadOS is pretty close now.

tahoe is definitely the worst i’ve seen things since leopard. maybe we get lucky and apple does another “ok sure, maybe that one was an oops” and anounces another snow leopard style rewite of everything. pause a year to clean up the flashy bloat that only kinda half works. not like they’ve been innovating, they could at least stop slipping and making lazy mistakes regularly.