{"id":33803,"date":"2020-04-06T00:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T07:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=33803"},"modified":"2020-04-06T17:57:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T00:57:10","slug":"newsletter-issue-983-the-ipad-mac-convergence-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2020\/04\/newsletter-issue-983-the-ipad-mac-convergence-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #983: The iPad\/Mac Convergence Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the first iPad debuted in 2010, its reasons for existence were not altogether clear. In large part, it seemed little more than a giant iPod, with the added capability of being able to access cellular data, as an option. It used iOS, and worked with mostly scaled up version of iPhone apps.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, developers learned to take advantage of the larger displays, but it took a while for apps to truly exploit the product differences, and it\u2019s been a long decade.<\/p>\n<p>At first, the iPad was largely regarded as a media consumption device, designed to watch videos from Netflix and YouTube. Despite a growing number of productivity apps, they were largely limited-function subsets of equivalent desktop PC apps.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wait! There's more than meets the eye!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/newsletter\/2020\/04\/newsletter-issue-983\/#report\"><strong>Continue Reading\u2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the first iPad debuted in 2010, its reasons for existence were not altogether clear. In large part, it seemed little more than a giant iPod, with the added capability of being able to access cellular data, as an option. 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