Do you think Catalina has closed the gap between iPhone & MBP?

[CaliforniaDreamin]

Tim Cook has been putting the MBP in the back seat of the Apple cart for nearly a decade. Clearly, the iPhone and iOS have been the priorities. Do you feel that Catalina will lead to a Renaissance for the MBP given it’s new linkage to iOS? Sidecar is a great bonus and could lead to many other improvements.

What’s next? Can MBP get back to the top of its potential?

 

[LeeW]

Do you feel that Catalina will lead to a Renaissance for the MBP given it’s new linkage to iOS?

If as you say the iPhone and IOS are the priorities then the answer would have to be no. The closer ties between macOS and IOS would need to solve issues that people are struggling with. The longer-term benefits of the closer integration in my view are more advantageous to those who have a MBP and iPad, not those who have an iPad only. So, therefore, I don't believe there is a renaissance ahead.

 

[jgbr]

I am not convinced 'iOSing' Mac was ever a good idea in the first place. I am looking at it from a longer term Mac User who feels the identity of Mac and Apple have diverged away from one another

 

[TokMok3]

Tim Cook has been putting the MBP in the back seat of the Apple cart for nearly a decade. Clearly, the iPhone and iOS have been the priorities. Do you feel that Catalina will lead to a Renaissance for the MBP given it’s new linkage to iOS? Sidecar is a great bonus and could lead to many other improvements.

What’s next? Can MBP get back to the top of its potential?

I might be wrong but I think that is the goal. At this moment the iOS developer frameworks are very advanced that anything can be programmed. I think that very soon the MacBook Pros will include touch screens. Personally I don't like that idea, but this world is changing too fast and nothing seem to able to stop it. I still remember my IBM 8080 with 640k of memory with monochromatic display. In order to program video games we had to access a hidden are of video memory with assembly language and C, then we had 16 color available to create magic. Those were the times when computer programming was an art. Now we have this computers with 32GB of memory with operating systems full of bugs.

 

[revmacian]

It is my opinion that Apple closed that gap with the introduction of Continuity/Handoff. Apple needs to stop trying to “close the gap” lest customers end up confused as to which device they need to buy.