I always set up my desktop browser to spoof an iPhone’s browser. It’s a bit of a hack workaround, but it’s enough to enable me to use my Macintosh to post things to Instagram.
I don’t even want to post things. Just want to look at friends’ stuff, which you can’t do without an account now.
In order to create an account it said there was suspicious activity on my account (which I don’t have one) and I needed to enter a phone number so they could text me a code, this after sending me an email code. Since I have an aversion to using my work phone for personal stuff and didn’t even have it with me, I hit return without a phone number (no other bail option) and now, I can’t get it to send me a password change cuz it doesn’t recognize my email (“no user exists” is the error message,) but if I try to make a new account, it says my email is in use, try again…
I’ve lodged a complaint, that will go nowhere.
I hate social media 
I’m in the process of setting up a gmail account just for this one use.
I had a similar problem with an iPad I used to own. When setting it up, Apple asked for a bunch of information for Apple’s iCloud. I had no interest in iCloud and figured what they asked for was none of their business, so I just made up a bunch of stuff.
That was fine for a couple of years until I installed one of their updates, which then asked for my email address that I no longer had and that personal information to verify that it was me. After calling them, they told me there was no way to bypass the security features that they had just implemented and that my iPad would never work again. They then proceeded to chastise me for not giving them the correct information to begin with.
The next day, I ordered a Samsung Galaxy tablet. My next smartphone will also be an Android device. After using the Android OS for awhile, I like it better than iOS.
I like the way you think.
The logic behind SaaS has made many things more convenient for the companies selling them, and of course the consumers without a security sense will follow this model. You’re correct in saying there are security risks. I’d say eventually there will be bandwidth increase need from your ISP as well; you will pay more overall if you want faster software delivery(or real-time). Double whammy!
I’m not sure if you know how thin and zero clients work, but it’s essentially the same, only on a larger scale. And now with virtual machines running networks, the cost is low for the retailer and will only continue to grow for the consumer.
One last thing, I believe desktop and mobile OS will eventually be one in the same. Apple has been leading the charge, and they’re extremely close now. I would purchase a brand new iPad Pro if it had MacOS in a HEARTBEAT! The M1 ARM is certainly laying the foundation for this.
Didn’t Microsoft already, more or less, do that with Windows five or six years ago when they were trying to break into the mobile market?
Just my uninformed opinion, but there’s an economic incentive to cut duplication of efforts, so I suspect Apple is working in that direction. I wouldn’t think it’s so much to make them one-in-the-same as much as it is to create something of a modular approach (for lack of better words) to OS’s. In other words, using the same code where appropriate for one and removing or adding to it for the other without having to reinvent the wheel for both.
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Well, they sure did try(Microsoft). We see how that went.
Personally, I believe both worlds can live in the same space. I didn’t used to, but I seriously think we will see this in the next couple of years.
There’s no way to fit photoshop onto a mobile screen, or after effects, or illustrator, or premier pro… I’ll keep my 21" iMac with 64gig of ram, 5K monitor and blazing fast processor.
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But they do have Illustrator and Photoshop for IPad - never used them though.
And Affinity on the iPad is supposed to be amazing.
I don’t want a mobile version of any of these apps though. I don’t want to be sitting somewhere and taking out my phone or tablet to draw/edit or do layouts.
I consider my time away from my home-office to be outside work. I only do work from the home-office. Nowhere else.
I think it’s important to have the boundaries.
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No InDesign for iPad yet? 
Whatever the power available to mobile devices, there is a tradeoff. Desktops can use a bigger screen but tablets and cellphones have touchscreen input (ok some desktops do too). Mobile devices can be linked to a big screen too when required.
If history teaches us anything, it’s that the best way to do something is not necessarily the way it will always be done. The perceived superiority of desktop machines is irrelevant if people want to use mobile devices more often for design.
Fresco, Illsutrator, Photoshop.
There is an Adobe Comp - and you can create basic layouts and then it automagically creates an InDesign document to work from.
The M1 chip and Apple OS11 (Big Sur) are out now. Yes, Big Sur is OS Eleven. no more OSX. in fact, I have an M1 Mac Mini arriving tomorrow for testing that all out. The problem right now is OS11 runs everything not iOS in Rosetta. Adobe has not caught up yet. They hope to have maybe Photoshop ready for M1 in the next several months but the other software is a year behind right now. Supposedly stuff runs faster in Rosetta on Big Sur than on Catalina. For what I do, other than a dozen gaussian blurs in one Illustrator file, my machine runs plenty fast enough. I just need it to RUN and interface with all my stuff, LOL!
Been having this argument on the Adobe forums and a few other places.
Apple really shot themselves in the foot with this. I know they released their info and gave people opportunities and stuff.
But… they also knew that a lot of design studios and printing studios use Mac and their OS. And they bring out a new chip that doesn’t work with what a lot of people need it to work with.
It’s like me going and buying a new computer and installing Linux and saying “Come on Adobe, catch up!!!”.
Where there are a few small known issues with Rosetta 2 emulating the x86 architecture, there really sin’t too big of an issue from an Adobe standpoint - the Rosetta 2 emulates it just fine.
There are a few people who are having issues - but they are putting these down to problems with the Adobe not catching up with the M1 chip - which I still say it’s up to Apple to make their emulation better!
anyway - a lot of people have the hump now with Adobe - and it’s not their fault that their chain of users have been lumped with an M1 chip using different architecture …
I say that’s on Apple to make the experience better.
There is a roadmap for the Adobe software - but it’s like clicking a button. As I’m under NDA I can’t really say what the timeline is.
Lightroom is the only Adobe App that works Natively under the M1 chip.
In saying all that - it should be completely fine - but I would urge people not to jump to the M1 chip until Adobe have rewritten their software or the M1 architecture.
There’s a lot o people annoyed with this - and I’ve been saying or a long time - don’t get the latest and greatest until it’s been tested and at least 1 patch rolled out for it.
@PrintDriver It’s great that you’re testing this. That’s exactly what everyone else should be doing. The amount of people who are having issues and attesting them to Adobes fault is mind-boggling!
How is it Adobe’s fault they bought a computer that doesn’t run the software natively?
I can’t stand the idea of working with a small screen, or having enough “horsepower” to render the images I need, either. Hardware and software devs are trying create a way for the user to design in the mobile world however…and they are succeeding in my opinion. I’m not currently implementing this myself, but I’m certainly up for anything if it improves or streamlines my processes.
It is not Adobe’s fault.
And it won’t be any of the rip manufacturer’s faults, or the sign software or the Mac/AutoCAD interface.
It’s just a new chip. Like the Intel chip was. Like the 64-bit change over was. It’s all about not being bleeding edge but able to make a jump if necessary.
I did not get to retire out of this industry fast enough.
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The other thing too…You have to buy a new machine with the M1 chip in order to fully maximize the Big Sur software. We have BigSur on a regular Intel machine here and it runs just fine. Is it emulating? Is it gonna screw up? I have it on one soda coozy machine. We’ll find out. But I did wait for the second update, LOL.
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Latest I’ve heard is that Samsung are developing their own too… so this will be fun.
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No. No, this will not be fun.
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Think of the Chromebook - the Chromebook 2 is coming out soon.
It’s actually pretty nifty - but they are relying on Intel or AMD processors.
I don’t mind for these portable devices, like Chromebook - or their own phones.
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I find the mobile apps for Adobe Suite useful for sketching on the go and getting down ideas in front of the TV at night especially because they’re small. I nicked my daughter’s convertible laptop a month or two back to play - the ones that you can flip and use like a touchscreen tablet - and outside of the trauma of it being so under spec’d for anything I found it really balanced out the power of the full programs with the pen to paper intuitiveness of drawing so I’m looking into a device like that (with a ******* higher specs) for my next machine alongside a few good monitors for my desk to hook it up to.
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