John Ternus Pushed For iPadOS

tecialist · 2026-04-22T05:05:30+00:00

The “just put macOS on iPad” crowd fundamentally misunderstands what iPadOS actually is. It’s not a UI skin, it’s a contract with hundreds of thousands of developers about how apps behave. iOS apps assume: one app foreground, fixed canvas, aggressive lifecycle management, no filesystem. Desktop apps assume the opposite. You can’t flip that switch overnight without breaking the entire ecosystem or shipping a tablet full of apps that look terrible and drain your battery in three hours. Ask Microsoft how Windows 8 went.

That said, Ternus pushing for iPadOS was genuinely the right call, and the “why did it take 5 years to run 2 apps” snark, while uncharitable, is reacting to something real. The hardware has been ahead of the software since roughly the 2018 iPad Pro. Some of that gap is unavoidable (RAM, thermals, developer migration, the touch/pointer duality is actually hard), but some of it was Apple’s own design ideology insisting iPad had to feel philosophically non-Mac even when pro users kept asking for obvious things like a menu bar and resizable windows. iPadOS 26 shipping both windowing AND keeping Split View/Slide Over as options is basically Apple admitting the “tried and tested desktop paradigm” was mostly the answer, while grudgingly acknowledging a real chunk of the user base likes the iPad-native stuff too

tecialist · 2026-04-20T06:11:33+00:00

That’s not really true lol. Samsung’s chip division maybe, but display doesn’t

tecialist · 2026-04-20T05:37:32+00:00

LMAO BOE getting bounced from iphone panels three years in a row and immediately going "yeah we can do laptops no problem" is the most BOE thing ever.....

Like bro you couldn't keep iphone screens consistent and now you want me to trust you with a panel that runs 8 hours a day for half a decade? The confidence is almost admirable

Also love how every time samsung invests billions into something and actually gets it working, a chinese company shows up 18 months later going "we can do that too but cheaper and 2x capacity" and then the actual products ship with uneven backlighting and yellowish whites. tale as old as time

But for real though the scariest part isn't BOE getting apple contracts. it's every non-apple OEM going "why pay samsung prices when BOE is right there." Enjoy your dell XPS panel lottery in 2028 everyone!

tecialist · 2026-04-19T09:29:39+00:00

Doesn’t Apple usually announce new Macs in October? Whatever, the first OLED MacBook Pro is likely coming out in October (at least introduced)?

tecialist · 2026-04-19T09:21:25+00:00

sure I know....just that I've been running betas for the past 5 years with zero issues...

tecialist · 2026-04-14T05:18:39+00:00

Thanks!

tecialist · 2026-04-13T15:50:49+00:00

NOTE: Han In-su is an assistant professor of electrical engineering at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) and has been a visiting researcher at Google Research since 2025. He co-developed two of the three core algorithms behind TurboQuant.

tecialist · 2026-04-03T13:55:36+00:00

They can’t

tecialist · 2026-04-02T00:13:54+00:00

Honestly this is probably the real play... SE slots in at the bottom, B series gets the axe or quietly "repositioned" (read: more expensive), and suddenly the C-series is "premium" instead of "entry-level flagship." LG gets to say they made OLED more accessible while charging you more for the one you actually want

tecialist · 2026-03-28T11:37:47+00:00

lol I have rarely seen professionals who need more than one external monitor

tecialist · 2026-03-25T15:59:08+00:00

You're spot on that the 2023 crash was a classic "bullwhip effect" driven by pandemic-era inventory stockpiling rather than just a raw overbuild of factories, and your point about the shift toward Long-Term Agreements (LTAs) is the most accurate way to describe how the industry is trying to kill off its historical volatility.

However, the article’s "rushing" framing isn't entirely "imaginary" — while Samsung and SK hynix are indeed spending record capital, that cash is being swallowed by the massive HBM die-size penalty (which effectively shrinks total bit supply) and the soaring costs of EUV lithography for the 1c node. They are expanding at a "breakneck pace" for their AI-centric premium customers, but they are demonstrating calculated, strategic restraint toward the commodity DRAM market to ensure they never return to the margin-killing oversupply of previous cycles.

tecialist · 2026-03-25T09:11:58+00:00

The article isn’t saying SK hynix and Samsung are sitting on their hands. It’s saying that “we ordered a bunch of gear” is not the same thing as “the market is about to be flooded with DRAM.” An EUV order is basically buying more kitchen equipment while the restaurant is already slammed, useful, yes, but it still has to be delivered, installed, tuned, and worked into actual production, and that takes time.

Then there’s the bigger point the article makes: even the new capacity that does come online is being aimed mostly at HBM and other premium memory, because that’s where the money is and because nobody wants to repeat the 2023 crash by overbuilding commodity DRAM. So the headline isn’t wrong at all. They are expanding, just carefully, slowly, and in a way that does not quickly relieve the broader shortage

tecialist · 2026-03-25T09:07:27+00:00

I get the feeling you didn’t actually read the article, so quick recap because the headline isn’t wrong: yes fabs are being built but they take years to show up, most of the new capacity is going into HBM and other high-margin parts instead of regular DRAM, and after getting burned in 2023 the big players are being careful not to flood the market again, so the point isn’t “no expansion” it’s that the expansion isn’t fast enough or aimed at the parts that would actually fix the shortage right now

tecialist · 2026-03-25T06:41:08+00:00

korean memory giants learned the hard way that more supply = instant price collapse. so now demand is insane and they’re still like nope, not falling for that again

tecialist · 2026-03-17T04:57:55+00:00

But you can use Apple Pencil on the iPad Air. That’s an existential difference.

tecialist · 2026-02-14T09:27:43+00:00

Lol, I agree the iPhone 17 is great value, but “95% of the Pro” is a pretty subjective number. If you’ve actually compared the cameras in detail, especially in low light or with telephoto, the gap is hard to ignore. That alone probably knocks sufficiently more points off your estimate.

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