Apple Explains Why iPads Don't Just Run macOS

[Unregistered 4U]

Apple no longer gives users what they, but what Apple thinks will drive the user to its services.

Apple has always and still does give users what they want. But, the users they’re focusing on are not the users from 15 years ago or even 5 years ago. They’re focused on the users today and those in the future. In some cases, long time users may be aligned with current users want but, if they’re not, Apple always leans towards those new users.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

It's really interesting that people can't fathom the idea that some people actually like iPadOS and don't want it to be macOS.

A lot of Apple II users likely thought the Apple II would be around forever.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

That would be sad: I would be forced to switch ecosystem from Apple to something else.

I remember helping to migrate folks off of the Mac. My point to them was, “If you don’t like what Apple’s doing now. I’m pretty sure there’s more of that coming.” Of course, there was always the risk that Apple WOULD hit the mark they wanted them to hit, but, luckily for me, they never did. These days, what Apple’s doing or not doing doesn’t matter to them at all and they’re glad they stepped away when it felt like it was on their own terms and before they felt like they were forced to move.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

that's a long winded way to say "we want people to buy both"

As Apple’s selling twice as many iPads as Macs in a given year “buying both” clearly isn’t working Maybe what Apple REALLY wants people buying Macs to do is buy TWO iPads!! That must be it!

 

[Unregistered 4U]

Now with an A18 coming to macbook, would it be the opposite? That is a nightmare, a nail to the coffin of Apple if you ask me. Apple ****s up all professional use of their previous top quality OS and top quality machines. Tim is turning Steve's dream into a complete nightmare, blinded by $$$.

Steve’s dream:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/did-steve-ever-say-this.275643/

Milk’s almost gone, some version of FCP and Logic Pro are already on the iPad.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

or...you just dual boot essentially and figure out a way to fast switch.

Right, OR, NOT do that and continue to sell 50+ million iPads a year.

And this is just one of the hard problems that would need to be solved. There’s some of the others are listed in this thread. And, for anything that would require developer buy-in, the complexity is raised that much higher (they can’t even get developers CURRENTLY to put in the work to ensure their app runs on both as completely separate systems).

I understand why it’s something that people want. In the end, there’s nothing anyone can post that will get everyone to understand why it’s not going to happen. But, if just one person reads it and goes, “Oh, good point.” And then takes steps that assumes it’s not going to happen, they’ll be in a better place in the long run.