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People are using iPad OS features on their iPhones

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180 points K0IN | 2 comments | 17 Nov 25 02:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.406s | source
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LeoPanthera ◴[17 Nov 25 06:19 UTC] No.45951240[source]▶
I have an 11" iPad and the screen still feels too small to use windowed apps. It gets very cramped very quickly.

I can't imagine trying to do that on an iPhone. Surely it's useless.

What this does do is reveal the fiction that "iPadOS" and "iOS" are separate. Clearly not.

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1. Razengan ◴[17 Nov 25 06:54 UTC] No.45951372[source]▶
> I can't imagine trying to do that on an iPhone. Surely it's useless.

When there's a will you'll be glad there's a way.

People used to make do with "tiny" screens throughout the 1980s and 1990s: Bigger displays sure but smaller resolutions Han the iPhone. Doom came out in 320x200 ffs

When traveling I've had to do all sorts of tricks to use various services while away from home. Like my bank app which set an OTP to email or SMS, but if you swiped out of the app to go check the message, it would generate a new OTP when you switched back to the bank app. So I had to check my mail/messages on the minuscule Apple Watch screen. And that was the only time I ever used email on the Watch but I was infinitely glad that it had that option.

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2. tecoholic ◴[17 Nov 25 08:57 UTC] No.45951952[source]▶
Exactly. I remember a post shared here a while ago, someone with just an Android phone developed some really cool Neovim plugin that became popular enough that people were pitching in to buy him a laptop.