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turning the iPad into a Mac device The second display is a long-standing desire for dual iPad and Macbook users. Luna Display was once the best solution for the second screen on the market, with equal display and painting The reason why the quality transmission is not lost, the reason why it was “once” is that Apple has already fulfilled the above requirements with the “Sidecar” function in the latest macOS.

The guy who ate was robbed, Luna Display had to make another living, and tapped another “second screen” – the old Mac, the new Mac-to-Mac mode allowed users to work on two Macs After splitting the screen and connecting the adapter to the main Mac, you can connect a second Mac and use the latter as an external display. You can even turn your Macbook into a Mac Mini display.

Luna Display The purpose of this feature is to make your old Mac not to be ash at home. It may not be suitable for daily use because of poor performance. Turning it into a second screen is also a waste of heat, so Luna Display The second screen computer only requires the system to be macOS 10.8 Mountain Lion. Mountain Lion is already a system 7 years ago.

Of course, Luna Display still retains its reputation for turning the iPad into a second screen, compared to Apple’s native Sidecar, Luna.Display supports more iPad and Mac models.

However, compared to having both an iPad and a Mac, there are far fewer people who have two Macs on hand. Mac-to-Mac is destined to be a smaller niche and can only be seen as Luna Display. The helplessness of the main function after being replaced by Apple’s native function reveals the dilemma of tool software: What should I do when a large company enters the same field?

Your idea is very good, but unfortunately it will be mine soon

Learning or imitating is a common practice in all walks of life. Today, people are still arguing over whether Apple’s revolutionary graphical interface (GUI) copied the Xerox’s creativity. Even Jobs himself said, “We always shamelessly steal great ideas.”

Apple’s reference is so frequent that there is a special phrase “getting Sherlocked”. This statement comes from a dispute between Apple and Karelia. “Sherlock” is a file and web search tool for MacOS 8.5 to Mac OS X Panther system, which is the predecessor of Sportlight. Sherlock inspired Karelia in the concept of providing Internet information on the Mac’s native search interface. The latter developed the Watson app, allowing users to search for movies without opening a browser., calculations, exchange rates, shopping, and more.

Karelia named the software Watson was intended to use it as an assistant to Sherlock. I didn’t expect Apple’s Sherlock 3 released on Mac OS X 10.2 to copy Watson’s functionality as it was, and to push the $30 Watson to the road. When Apple releases new features that can replace third-party applications, developers will always ridicule these apps “getting Sherlocked.”

The same concerns occurred in Spotlight’s appearance in 2014, as this new system search tool and the well-known Mac artifact Alfred are too similar, forcing Alfred developers to make statements stating that we are different.

It turns out that users’ concerns are superfluous, and Alfred is still alive today because Alfred is essentially a launcher, with integrated player, 1 Password, bookmarks, clipboard, and customizable scripts at its core. Although it has a face with Spotlight, there is no need to worry about being robbed.

The emergence of the iCloud keychain is also considered a threat to password management applications such as 1Password. Although the details of the 1Password product have been polished in place for decades, with the perfect function of the keychain, the advantages of Apple’s ecology and the free features, it is good enough for many less demanding users. Whether 1Password is badly affected is not conclusive, but the potential users who are snatched away are certain.

Even if the product moat is deep enough, under the protection of patents, you don’t have to worry about being taken away by big companies. The big company that doesn’t have money is still the last one: buy.

A recent typical example is Workflow, an iOS automation tool that has been highly acclaimed since its launch, a UI that is highly consistent with the system, a modular programming idea that is simple and simple, and a clever call to system functions… Workflow It’s no surprise that you can be favored by Apple. After being acquired, Workflow returned with the “shortcut” in iOS 12, inheriting the original advantages, and integrating with system functions such as Siri also made it more powerful.

Tests acquired by Apple in 2014Tools TestFlight is now a test platform for developers, making it easier for developers to test, modify files and collect feedback, just stopping support for Android.

However, not all acquired applications have good luck like Workflow and TestFlight, such as the wonderful list that falls into Microsoft’s hands, the end is to stop updating, the user is asked to migrate, the founder is leaving, but Microsoft To-Do was developed with the resources of the wonderful list. Even if the old users objected again, the wonderful list could not escape the fate of withdrawing from the historical stage.

Acquisition, threatened, or perhaps silently replaced. Behind the new features of more comprehensive memos and reminders in iOS and macOS, health apps with post-recording capabilities, and night-time mode that automatically adjusts the color of the display, there are a large number of third-party applications that have been abandoned and stopped updating.

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