Comments on: Screen Sharing in OS X Lion Allows Multi-User Sessions

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:09:11 +0000

One high end Mac Pro placed in basement with Hd tv up stairs as monitor working as a high end app and entertainment server.
iPads or Macbooks mobile access MacPro.
Attach iPads or Macbooks attached to larger screens in work areas if desired.

Now this sounds like a setup I could live with.

By: dMon

dMon — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 15:27:35 +0000

Finally a way to remotely access an iTunes library in a user account that isn’t the active account? This would be a very big deal. Virtually making any Mac a media server.

By: DMon

DMon — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 15:22:11 +0000

And adding full-screen views on Mac apps makes even more sense when you Put it in this context

By: Derek Martin

Derek Martin — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:53:22 +0000

I totally agree that touch-optimization is key… as the primary experience. But lots of people have wished for ages that they could hook up a mouse & keyboard to iPad and use it to Remote Desktop into their PC and “be productive”. I feel like this would be a non-hackey way to do that. Would it be a feature everyone would use? No. Would it be a “checkmark feature” that could attract a lot of users who previously viewed the iPad as a toy? You betcha.

By: Derek Martin

Derek Martin — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:40:12 +0000

Yep, that’s where I think it’s going. You might think “But that means less Mac sales, so Apple probably won’t do it” — but consider this:
a) it would mean that people who have an iPad but no Mac would be more likely to buy a Mac (because this feature won’t work with iTunes+Windows)
b) it would help drive iPad sales by making them even more flexible & attractive to content producers & office workers… and if iPad sales go up, see a)
c) if you had a 3G iPad you could literally use your home computer from anywhere — the car, the bus, work, the beach
d) i almost forgot about iDisk — imagine this. you are working on a Pages document on your iPad and it autosaves to iDisk. You get home and open Pages, and it resumes editing that same file from your iDisk automatically.

By: bayxsonic

bayxsonic — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:05:05 +0000

Interesting thought but gestures and fullscreen apps alone don’t make an OS “touchable”, we need Windows-like (you heard that right!) title bar and menu bar — I’m pretty sure that traffic light is not touch-friendly.

But then again, why would Apple do this? They’ve got a great and successful touch-optimized OS and we all know that using non-optimized desktop applications in VNC on an iPad is not a great experience.

By: Karl C

Karl C — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:07:56 +0000

So does this mean that a family setup could consist of various iPads remotely controlling only one main computer?

By: PD

PD — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:06:27 +0000

Yup, what you’re saying makes perfect sense. Good observation.

Right now though I’d settle for a version of Lion in which Safari works. It’s very very very sadly broken right now.

By: Andrew Macdonald

Andrew Macdonald — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:25:41 +0000

Definitely food for thought, I hadn’t thought about it that way, but that certainly makes a lot of sense.

By: Derek Martin

Derek Martin — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:24:48 +0000

I have a funny feeling that this feature was built specifically to allow iPads to use the Mac as if it and its apps were local on the iPad. If that’s the case, Lion’s reverse scrolling makes sense — it’s so it works on iPad. MissionControl also makes a lot of sense, because it’ll allow you to navigate your Mac’s apps from the iPad, in an iPad-esque way. Full screen mode for OSX apps also makes a lot of sense if you’re going to be running them on an iPad. My $0.02