Apple Universal Control UI. So cool.
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I just had one of those rare moments where a UI makes me happy. I've updated my mac and iPad to the latest and greatest so I could play with Universal Control. This is where you use your mac's keyboard and mouse to control the iPad (or other mac). The iPad essentially becomes an extension of the screen. The ballet behind all this must be impressive and, I imagine, an absolute 'mare to debug and get right. Determining the location of hardware through the wireless signal, authentication, latency, the event messages, the data passed around as part of a file drag and drop. So many things to go wrong. But what blew me away was the setup: you bring the iPad close. You drag your mouse to the side of your mac's screen, and then keep dragging, and then...it appears on the iPad as though it's behind a flexible barrier. You drag a little more and it pops out and you have a cursor on the iPad. It was fun. It was creepy too, but it just worked and was so, so cool. Anyway, serious kudos to the person who agreed to pay for the developer time to add that wonderful setup experience.
cheers Chris Maunder
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I just had one of those rare moments where a UI makes me happy. I've updated my mac and iPad to the latest and greatest so I could play with Universal Control. This is where you use your mac's keyboard and mouse to control the iPad (or other mac). The iPad essentially becomes an extension of the screen. The ballet behind all this must be impressive and, I imagine, an absolute 'mare to debug and get right. Determining the location of hardware through the wireless signal, authentication, latency, the event messages, the data passed around as part of a file drag and drop. So many things to go wrong. But what blew me away was the setup: you bring the iPad close. You drag your mouse to the side of your mac's screen, and then keep dragging, and then...it appears on the iPad as though it's behind a flexible barrier. You drag a little more and it pops out and you have a cursor on the iPad. It was fun. It was creepy too, but it just worked and was so, so cool. Anyway, serious kudos to the person who agreed to pay for the developer time to add that wonderful setup experience.
cheers Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote:
I've updated my mac and iPad to
I updated my AmigaOS and an equal amount of people cared. ..but yes, this year is going to be when Maccy goes desktop, right? :)
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