westhom

I definitely get why professionals want a MacBook. I’m just observing that, from UI/UX/functionality standpoint, the differences between what iPad OS can do and what MacOS can do is quickly disappearing. It’s been happening over a few years, and will continue to converge. There will be a point where it will be good enough to add to consumer MacBooks, and satisfy most people. They will maintain differentiation between the “iOS” MacOS just like they enable more powerful features with iPadOS that you can’t have with iOS. But it’s going to happen, the writing is on the wall.

Btw, this doesn’t mean that iOS MacOS will be unusable by devs. I’m sure they have already roadmappped what a pro iOS looks like, for MacBook users. Eg terminal, compiling, code running, etc. But might be more locked down from where you can install .apps from.

Maybe 3-5 years until iOS/iPadOS and MacOS are essentially the same. It doesn’t make sense to keep them separate code based when iOS is developing into a hybrid form factor OS, with mouse, multitasking, windows, file system, external monitor, usb accessories, keyboard, etc.

My guess is non-pro laptops will basically be iOS, and then there will be a MacOS Pro, which unlocks some capabilities for developers, but all in a unified code base.

First step was to share processor architecture and work in the ability for iOS apps to run in MacOS. But iOS is very much converging into a replacement for MacOS. And just like iPhone iOS strips out features you unlock with iPadOS, same for the iOS-ification of MacOS.

Thanks for sharing. This is exactly what I want to do once I get a house. First just room to room calling with extensions, and then possibly outgoing for fun. It’s good to know the actual hardware isn’t expensive and it can support analog. And lots of fun old school phones to choose from.

Alter ego is the true self coming out. The “true self” is the real mask - the struggle with excepting the horror of what is exposed by the mask.

Maybe?

I decided to read Lonesome Dove from the epigraph alone:

“All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives in us. Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed, we live, and what they lived, we dream.”