And as formatting bars and font menus became obsolete on our iPhones and iPads, a funny thing happened: They became less important on our Macs, too.
The result left us with minimal, distraction-free environments where the only things that matter are our words. In an effort to maximize every pixel of screen real estate, developers rethought what was necessary for productivity and efficiency on our mobile devices, from the size of the canvas to the way we interact with buttons, bars and ribbons. Not only has iOS given us the flexibility to quickly jot down our thoughts wherever and whenever they strike, it’s fundamentally flipped our expectations of the humble text editor. IOS devices have completely changed the way we write.
