Remember those heady days of WWDC 2021, when Apple Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi performed a magical drag-and-drop demo of Universal Control that made the near-future world of macOS Monterey seem especially cool? Oh, yeah. It was just last month.
Anyway, Redditor kinky_unicorn certainly remembers it. They recreated Federighi’s workstation from the video, took a photo of it and posted it on Reddit, after all.
If the photo above doesn’t jog your memory — because surely you watched WWDC 2021 keynote vids in their entirety — you can watch the demo below.
And of course you can read Cult of Mac coverage of the whole affair. And then some.
Kinky_unicorn’s setup includes an M1 iMac, an apparently not-at-all-new MacBook Pro, an iPad with a keyboard and a Magic Trackpad 2.
And, of course, the setup would not be complete without something special with which to take the photo. In this case, it was a Sony A7R IV camera with a 35mm F1.4 GM lens.
But the irony is crushing
And the tragic irony of it all? kinky_unicorn’s MacBook Pro, the one in the photo, won’t be able to handle Universal Control. It’s too old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PcKvaW5jzw
“My MBP is too old for Universal Control and it makes me sad,” they said. “It’s too old even for Sidecar although I use another app for that purpose.”
That suggests kinky_unicorn’s MBP dates to at least early 2016. Other Redditors were pulling for kinky_unicorn, though.
“Ahh that’s a shame,” said one. “There’ll be a time in the future when you can upgrade. I made the risky decision of upgrading recently to the m1 iPad and MacBook, largely in the hopes that universal control will work well.”
Shop these items now:
- 24-inch M1 iMac
- MacBook Pro
- iPad Pro with keyboard
- Magic Trackpad 2
- Sony A7R camera body with extras
- Sony FE 35mm F1.4 GM lens
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