macOS Catalina and Sidecar and iPad OS Quick Demo [Self] (opens in new tab)

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9 pointsscotchio6y ago10 comments

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Does that mean that Macbook users will be able to use iPad keyboard instead of the even worse one they have as part of their Macbooks? Sweet!

nikolay6y ago

Basically, Apple is reinventing Windows 10...

zapzupnz6y ago

I don't know how you extrapolated that conclusion from Sidecar. Sidecar is a remote screen technology; it happens to let you use the secondary screen as a drawing tablet, but only as drawing tablet — you need to use Apple Pencil.

It doesn't turn macOS into a general purpose tablet OS; it's just a remote display and is why the Apple Pencil is explicitly required.

matt-attack6y ago

I was struggling to understand why I’d want to map my MacOS desktop onto the background of my iOS tablet. Are you suggesting the primary reason is to use the touch interface of the tablet to interact with a MacOS application?

I’m all for cool wireless video stuff but I’m not sure I’m grasping how this is useful.

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pcr9103036y ago

What makes you think so?̊̈ I don’t see anything common with Windows 10 here...

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