This was true, but is no longer true in most cases. Copy/paste works between many iPad applications. Increasingly, applications can expose interfaces that allow information to be exchanged between them. Pythonista, in particular, provides a number of ways to use, pile, and process data from and between applications. The Files app has also contributed to making this simpler.
That said... it’s still less productive to move data between applications than on a PC or Mac. The gap hasn’t been closed yet.
> Copy/paste works between many iPad applications.
Meanwhile, on desktop I can't paste between Emacs and Confluence because Atlassian went out of their way to break it.
I know what people are trying to get at here, but I think there's also a lot of tunnel vision and selective memory.
Realistically, it's only easier to share data on the PC if the application developers made it easy to share data. There's no shortage of proprietary and undocumented file formats. Heck, there's a small industry built up just for converting CAD files between different formats.
> on desktop I can't paste between Emacs and Confluence because Atlassian went out of their way to break it.
Which presupposes that by default (i.e without Atlassian's messing things up), it would have worked.
On desktop applications, File-level and copy-paste interoperability are there by default.
This is the difference: what is the amount of interoperability you get by default, i.e without specific actions from the app developers?
The fact that you can break interoperability is irrelevant.
That said... it’s still less productive to move data between applications than on a PC or Mac. The gap hasn’t been closed yet.