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Tim Cook: Apple Won't Create 'Converged' MacBook and iPad (independent.ie)

Posted by Soulskill on from the not-until-they-do,-anyway dept.

LichtSpektren writes: In an interview with Independent.ie, Apple CEO Tim Cook has stated that Apple is currently not looking to create an iPad that runs Mac OS X. "We feel strongly that customers are not really looking for a converged Mac and iPad, because what that would wind up doing, or what we're worried would happen, is that neither experience would be as good as the customer wants. So we want to make the best tablet in the world and the best Mac in the world. And putting those two together would not achieve either. You'd begin to compromise in different ways." Cook also commented that he does not travel with a Mac anymore, only his iPad Pro and iPhone.

6 of 337 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I suspect it already does by monkeyxpress · · Score: 3, Informative

    There has also been a lot of convergence in OSX/iOS development tools over the last few xcode releases. AppKit has UiKit style autolayout now and many of the back end services and apis are being normalised.

    The Apple Pencil makes a mouse oriented UI usable on an iPad like device, and I wouldn't be surprised if by the iPad Pro 2 it is reasonably trivial to make an OSX app that builds for iPad Pro with minimal UI tweaks.

  2. Re:Tim Cook doesn't know why anyone would buy a PC by macs4all · · Score: 3, Informative

    As tablets are filling that need for more and more of the average consumer, PC sales are dying.

    Maybe for the rest of the industry; but not for Apple.

  3. Re:xCode? by fluffernutter · · Score: 1, Informative

    Sorry. OSX or OS X, not OS/X.

    The first two don't look right to me.

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  4. Re:Or Will They? by Penguinisto · · Score: 3, Informative

    Or will they, in two years form now?

    Why bother? If you want one bad enough, you can go buy one right now.

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  5. Re:"We want to make the best Mac in the world" by azav · · Score: 5, Informative

    I develop for Apple for a living, son.

    The default blue is eye burning and is everywhere in the Mac OS and iOS.

    Nothing's animated? Everything is. Click on a disclosure triangle in the Finder. The entire contents of the folder slide down or slide up. Download a file in Safari. A little cockroach sized badge darts across the screen. Open a panel in Xcode, it slides across the screen instead of opening instantly. Open a new Safari window. It pops open in your face, growing to full size. Send an email in the Mail app. It flies up off the screen. Click in a search bar. The little magnifying glass darts to the left. Click out of it. It darts back to the center. Every alert pops open. Pressing command control D with the mouse over some text results in a VH-1 Pop Up Video style wobbling bubble and then all the content animates in.

    Even clicking on a radio button animates the filling in of the button. So much of the UI is now a visual distraction and you can't turn them all off.

    I don't know how you don't see this.

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  6. Re:"We want to make the best Mac in the world" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    You don't even need a modal dialog.

    Try opening TextEdit. Now click a browser, and while it's launching, switch back to TextEdit and start typing.

    Chances are good that when your browser finishes launching, it will leap to the foreground, interrupting your typing.