Cheng Lou(@_chenglou ):The rise of AI agents with remote control actually disproved Apple’s decade-long thesis about iPad. The reason iPad failed to replace MacBooks isn’t due to lack of fancy gestural windows management or unified UI. It’s simply that filesystem access and unscriptability sucked Consider that using your phone’s agents to control your laptop has been proven super useful even to grandpas. But using it to control your iPad is basically useless It's a damn shame, because iPad is an ideal form factor good for vague gestures and convenience, and bad at the stuff agents excel at (micro-annoyances, low-level manipulations)

2026.05.13 20:44

The rise of AI agents with remote control actually disproved Apple’s decade-long thesis about iPad. The reason iPad failed to replace MacBooks isn’t due to lack of fancy gestural windows management or unified UI. It’s simply that filesystem access and unscriptability sucked Consider that using your phone’s agents to control your laptop has been proven super useful even to grandpas. But using it to control your iPad is basically useless It's a damn shame, because iPad is an ideal form factor good for vague gestures and convenience, and bad at the stuff agents excel at (micro-annoyances, low-level manipulations)