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Meanwhile in parallel universe: Windows phone is top OS in the world while Apple is 3rd. But Apple introduces continuum in OS X & iPhone. I wonder what would happen then?
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Meanwhile in parallel universe: Windows phone is top OS in the world while Apple is 3rd. But Apple introduces continuum in OS X & iPhone. I wonder what would happen then?
Assuming that it would be easy for an iOS/OSX/Objective-C/Swift developer to make a code-once-adapt-to-any-iOS-or-OSX device app, it would probably turn as many heads as Windows's Continuum does.
AFAIK I don't think that's an easy thing to do on the iOS/OSX camp, because I don't think there's a concept of universal app in Apple's camp.
With the way Apple is doing things at present, Continuum on phones doesn't make sense for Apple; it could cannibalize sales of their OS X computers if the iPhones can become computers by adding a keyboard, mouse, and screen.
Apple never cared about that sort of thing. The iPhone also cannibalized the iPod, which was a huge part of their profits back then.