Until a couple of years ago I was hard in the Apple ecosystem. I saw things like Universal Control come along and how cool it was that I could control my iPad from my Mac; but only if both were new enough to support it.
Then I began to dabble in Linux, before immersing myself in it. And then I realised that Universal Control was just Deskflow, (or one of the numerous forks of the same project). Which led me to realise just how many of those incredible Apple innovations over the past 10/20 years were mostly just polished versions of things people could do with far cheaper hardware.
Take iPhone mirroring. That’s been available to Android users as SCRCPY for god knows how long. But if you use Linux or Windows and an iPhone, it’s not for you. For a long time, my iPad got very little use because I can’t integrate it with Linux very easily at all. And that’s by design. That’s how Apple sells more stuff.
Until a couple of years ago I was hard in the Apple ecosystem. I saw things like Universal Control come along and how cool it was that I could control my iPad from my Mac; but only if both were new enough to support it.
Then I began to dabble in Linux, before immersing myself in it. And then I realised that Universal Control was just Deskflow, (or one of the numerous forks of the same project). Which led me to realise just how many of those incredible Apple innovations over the past 10/20 years were mostly just polished versions of things people could do with far cheaper hardware.
Take iPhone mirroring. That’s been available to Android users as SCRCPY for god knows how long. But if you use Linux or Windows and an iPhone, it’s not for you. For a long time, my iPad got very little use because I can’t integrate it with Linux very easily at all. And that’s by design. That’s how Apple sells more stuff.