MacOS on the iPad: A Compromise
Xitter remains a total xhitshow when it comes to trying to have a somewhat nuanced conversation about something. Case in point: yesterday, Joanna Stern linked to a post of mine (which was linking to a post of her's!) with a screenshot of a key point about how Apple could conceivably get macOS working on the iPad – a topic on many peoples' minds right now given just how powerful the latest iPad Pros are and how underwhelming iPadOS remains.
There are over 100 replies/quote Xweets on this now and while I had been trying to respond to some, it would take hours to respond to all. And there is even more discussion on this general topic over on Threads. So instead, I'll use the biggest such response, from Steven Sinofsky, which got its own Techmeme headline yesterday (as well as another nearly 100 replies/quotes just to his take), as a jumping off point.
Sinofsky, of course, knows quite a bit about this general topic as he's the one who famously created and shipped Windows 8 when he was still an executive at Microsoft. And 13 years ago, in my last remaining days as a tech reporter, I took him to task on the meaning of the word "compromise". You see, back then, Sinofsky's stance with Windows 8 was that they could launch it with both a traditional Windows experience as well as the new (at the time) Metro experience, a UI built for touch devices, such as Windows Phone. My stance (again, at the time) was that this "no compromise" approach was actually a huge compromise.
