The underlying premise of personal computing is to serve one user in one context.
The article raises many worthy points, but to address them effectively, maintaining privacy, security and separation of contexts requires a ground-up re-architecting of the software stack. As innovative as Apple are, I think they are firmly a personal computing vendor.
I mean, I’d be fine with streaming the webcam from my phone to my work Mac via USB if I knew my work Mac couldn’t also back up the phone. But I agree it might be a lot of effort, feature by feature.
The underlying premise of personal computing is to serve one user in one context.
The article raises many worthy points, but to address them effectively, maintaining privacy, security and separation of contexts requires a ground-up re-architecting of the software stack. As innovative as Apple are, I think they are firmly a personal computing vendor.
I mean, I’d be fine with streaming the webcam from my phone to my work Mac via USB if I knew my work Mac couldn’t also back up the phone. But I agree it might be a lot of effort, feature by feature.