The way we interact with our Mac is fundamentally different from the way we do with our AppleTV. The iPad interaction interface is different from the Mac but not fundamentally. AppleTV is first anf foremost an entertainment device, the Mac a production device. The 12.9/13 iPad Pro is suitable as both for enough applications that benefit from dual OS flexibility. The Mac-like additions to iPasOS 26 make perfect sense to me. Keep it up, Apple!
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Apple Explains Why iPads Don't Just Run macOS
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Well... They just finished 28 Years Later on a bunch of iPhones. At some point, consumer processing power is going to reach diminishing returns for things that just don't need any more enhancement. The human eye can see up to... what? 18K, and we're already shooting in 8K. So... in 5 years? Sure.
That said, I couldn't imagine Spielberg doing anything on anything but real film.
MacOS and the iPad OS will come from a common code base but will have distinct builds to section off the iPad with its familiar restrictions. There's no way apple would have distinct trees as sustaining it would be a complete waste. iPad OS should be a reskinned version of Mac OS. Nothing more. Most will probably struggle to understand if they don't have technical wherewithal about programming.
you lose the ecosystem. and in the tablet market, there isn't any real alternative sadly
Processing power isn't the issue.
You have professional SDI monitors, speakers, control surfaces, multiple large workstation monitors, Wacom tablets. 1 Thunderbolt port isn't going to cut it. Not to mention the 11/13 inch screen isn't really going to be used at the edit bay.
It's pointless.
It would be the other way around. All those new/updated apps written in Swift UI? They're certainly not designed/written with the Mac in mind as first class citizens. They obviously design it for iPad and just let it work on Mac.
Part of my tablet experience is using the pencil too. It's impossible with the magic keyboard without carrying another cover, so it's much more than 200g. Combo touch has a detachable keyboard part, it's much better foe the "tablet experience" than the magic keyboard. And as I said above, any ipad is unusable with pencil without a cover, because if a stupid overspeced camera much less people asked for than a mini iphone.
This is just a stupid excuse, they know it would cut into MacBook sales and that is the only reason it doesn’t run it.
The real reason is the loss App Store revenue follow the money.
Not sure what you mean. You grab it off the magic keyboard cover and use it like paper with the pencil. No cover attached at all so you have the best tablet + pencil experience. It's effortless.
iPhone cut into iPod sales. iPod is now dead. If Apple found a way to kill the MacBook and sell more iPads, they would do it, no problem.
I've learned to never say "never" with technology. Years ago, we were absolutely convinced Apple would release a G5 PowerBook, that the transition to Intel was nothing more than a mirage created by the Marklar project, and that Apple designing and owning its own chipset was simply ridiculous and inefficient. I'm not saying that studio editing doesn't require studio equipment, but could iPads become integrated into it? Who really knows?
I would know. I worked in Fortune 500 companies that produced television ads. These workstations need more than a few ports to work properly. Even if Apple decided to include 3 Thunderbolt ports to the device (extremely unlikely), that's still won't accommodate all the gear in these edit bays. You'd have to daisy chain a bunch of hubs together. At that point, a customizable PC works better than an iPad.
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If you want to you can run macOS on a touch screen right now by installing it on a Microsoft surface, or countless other touch screen PCs
I can't see why they can't just release a version of MacOS for iPad, let the user decide what they want to install. Make it for Apple silicone only, so you have to buy an iPad Air or iPad Pro. there's no reason not to at this point
A minority opinion, but I’m glad we have a distinct iPadOS, especially with the release of 26.
I think it looks great and should remain its own thing.
If it gets good enough, it could one day replace macOS entirely. Bringing macOS to the iPad might derail that path forward.
I think it looks great and should remain its own thing.
If it gets good enough, it could one day replace macOS entirely. Bringing macOS to the iPad might derail that path forward.
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If they do that, then where is the motivation to make iPadOS better and more full featured?
I think iPadOS is going to outlive macOS. It might take another 15-20 years, but I think the writing is already on the wall.
No. Backside is not even because of the camera bump. It was effortless before that stupid bump, but with it I'd have to carry around an extra cover so it will lay flat on a table.
If there was going to be a dual-boot iPad (a big *if*, IMO), I'd expect this problem to be solved by having the same User data volume shared for both iPadOS and macOS.
Both kinds of devices are already using APFS, and even on macOS the OS volume and data volume are increasingly separate. Perhaps they would have 3 volumes on such a dual-boot devices: iPadOS volume, macOS volume, data volume.
The bump causes zero issues when drawing. I don't even see my iPad wobbling as I'm literally using it now. Resting the palm keeps the iPad stable.
the cover from Logitech makes the iPad heavier when using it as a consumption device.
It wouldn't just automatically work. Plenty of macOS apps don't follow sandboxed rules that iPadOS apps have. Users would need to save into the shared volume (likely a folder in iCloud), adding complexity.
And we’d lose everything that makes iPad iPad. I’m sorry, but I remember Windows 8 - you can’t take a desktop OS and make it work for tablets.
yes but it’s overly complicated. It’s something that Apple should build in but don’t for inexplicable reasons. Look up Luna display.
