<story><title>Apple’s Universal Control</title><url>https://500ish.com/it-really-just-works-d359cfcdffe6?gi=5e5236274b4e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>waffleiron</author><text>I’ve never been an real Apple user, however I got a MacBook Pro from my employer. Recently my android broke, and a friend gave me an 2020 iPhone SE as temporary replacement while I look for a replacement.&lt;p&gt;The thing that really blew my mind was the shared clipboard, I’ve always been sending myself messages through Signal or Discord to share my clipboard. Now it’s just automatic. The only thing I would have liked was a better way to discover this, I only did by accident.&lt;p&gt;I’ve used KDE connect in the past, and this feels like the polished version of it.&lt;p&gt;edit: Mac Pro -&amp;gt; MacBook Pro</text></item><item><author>knolan</author><text>This is exactly what Apple have done again and again and yet people are still surprised when it happens.&lt;p&gt;Touch screens, FaceTime, AirDrop, Handoff, Sidecar. These are generally polished and reliable iterations of existing ideas that don’t require a bunch of other apps and configuration. They are usually marketed and smartly named, unlike Windows where they can’t seem to name anything or features are locked behind different tiers of the OS.&lt;p&gt;Even the PC Master Race brigade who love to shout that they could build a better machine for less than whatever desktop Apple releases miss the point. Macs are appliances. They work reliably and do so for a long time and you know what you’re getting in terms of functionality.</text></item><item><author>samwillis</author><text>Everyone is quite right there have been systems like this available to the “Pro User” for a long time &lt;i&gt;but&lt;/i&gt; what’s different here is it’s being brought to the main stream. They are taking a niche professional tool and making it available in a “just works” way to literally everyone. A lot of people have a Mac and an iPad, this will be their first experience of this. It’s going to be very popular with people who had no idea it was possible.&lt;p&gt;The other thing to consider is that Apple will be able to integrate at a lower deeper level than third party apps. It’s the drag and drop between devices that is going to be the game changer, that isn’t currently possible with the iPad with a third party app, the APIs don’t exist.&lt;p&gt;So yes, it’s not new but it is new to 99% of people. Just like smart phones, tablets or portable music “jukebox” players weren’t new but apple took them mainstream.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fitzroy</author><text>My recent&amp;#x2F;related iOS hack is screenshotting difficult-to-select text in sites and apps. Live Text immediately performs OCR on the screenshot and the text can then be copied&amp;#x2F;pasted.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple’s Universal Control</title><url>https://500ish.com/it-really-just-works-d359cfcdffe6?gi=5e5236274b4e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>waffleiron</author><text>I’ve never been an real Apple user, however I got a MacBook Pro from my employer. Recently my android broke, and a friend gave me an 2020 iPhone SE as temporary replacement while I look for a replacement.&lt;p&gt;The thing that really blew my mind was the shared clipboard, I’ve always been sending myself messages through Signal or Discord to share my clipboard. Now it’s just automatic. The only thing I would have liked was a better way to discover this, I only did by accident.&lt;p&gt;I’ve used KDE connect in the past, and this feels like the polished version of it.&lt;p&gt;edit: Mac Pro -&amp;gt; MacBook Pro</text></item><item><author>knolan</author><text>This is exactly what Apple have done again and again and yet people are still surprised when it happens.&lt;p&gt;Touch screens, FaceTime, AirDrop, Handoff, Sidecar. These are generally polished and reliable iterations of existing ideas that don’t require a bunch of other apps and configuration. They are usually marketed and smartly named, unlike Windows where they can’t seem to name anything or features are locked behind different tiers of the OS.&lt;p&gt;Even the PC Master Race brigade who love to shout that they could build a better machine for less than whatever desktop Apple releases miss the point. Macs are appliances. They work reliably and do so for a long time and you know what you’re getting in terms of functionality.</text></item><item><author>samwillis</author><text>Everyone is quite right there have been systems like this available to the “Pro User” for a long time &lt;i&gt;but&lt;/i&gt; what’s different here is it’s being brought to the main stream. They are taking a niche professional tool and making it available in a “just works” way to literally everyone. A lot of people have a Mac and an iPad, this will be their first experience of this. It’s going to be very popular with people who had no idea it was possible.&lt;p&gt;The other thing to consider is that Apple will be able to integrate at a lower deeper level than third party apps. It’s the drag and drop between devices that is going to be the game changer, that isn’t currently possible with the iPad with a third party app, the APIs don’t exist.&lt;p&gt;So yes, it’s not new but it is new to 99% of people. Just like smart phones, tablets or portable music “jukebox” players weren’t new but apple took them mainstream.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>catach</author><text>&amp;gt; The thing that really blew my mind was the shared clipboard&lt;p&gt;I wasn&amp;#x27;t aware this was a thing, and my mind just got blown. Thanks.</text></comment>