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I do think Apple will (finally!) solve the iPadOS-isn't-as-powerful-as-macOS in the next few years, as SwiftUI allows developers (including Apple with the built-in apps like Mail & Photos) to effortlessly make iOS (excuse me, iPadOS) apps every bit as powerful as macOS apps.

But that doesn't solve the problems I mentioned above, which are bigger.
I agree with you on the part about SwiftUI. I think a lot of people missed how big of a change SwiftUI underwent this year, adding new frameworks that can easily replace existing macOS ones. I think iPadOS is quickly catching up with macOS, I actually use an iPad as my primary computer, and I do professional work on it such as Graphic Design, Photo Editing, 3D Modeling and Sculpting, Writing, etc. It does all of those things well, and is likely to only improve. I think Apple will make a type of Catalyst 2.0 with SwiftUI that would make it easier to port Mac apps over to the iPad. Even without a Catalyst 2.0, many major apps have decided to move over to the iPad in the last couple years, and I think as SwiftUI matures and becomes easier to adopt, that trend will only continue. 👍🏻
 
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I'm a college teacher. I hook my 2018 12.9" iPad to a projector or to Zoom and use it as a virtual whiteboard. Bigger screens (up to a point) are easier to write legibly on. I would love to have a 14" or 16" iPad. It doesn't need to be Oled! It doesn't need to have all the expensive options.
 
it's got to a point where these massive tablets are just so expensive you might as well buy a 14 inch macbook pro for how much it would cost without the keyboard.
Not if the apps a user wants to user are iOS and iOS apps. Or, if those are the OS’s they’re familiar with. Which, every year, is a larger and larger group of people who wouldn’t have any use for macOS devices of any size.
 
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