A few things for me dual monitor support via Thunderbolt 4, Landscape camera and OLED screen on the 12.9".
I agree. As I mentioned several posts back, I don’t believe touch is the ideal UI for most Mac (productivity) tasks for most people (I’m even a Cintiq/stylus Mac user and I still don’t want touch on macOS) and I don’t believe there’s a way to satisfy everyone with one do-all OS. I’m not against the idea of such an OS existing alongside the other OSes of course, and of course I’m sure it would be ideal for some people, but my guess is the size of that market versus the effort it would take to make and maintain that hardware and software ecosystem wouldn’t balance out.
While it might only be a power user option, Mac OS could work on an iPad touch and all. Some elements are already touch sized. Anyone using an iPad Pro with Mac OS would probably also be using it with a keyboard and pointing device. I use a keyboard, mouse, pencil and touch in various combinations on and iPad now depending on what I’m doing and what feels right for any given action. You wouldn’t need to inflate all of the touch targets to get it working.
While I understand what you are saying and I agree with people such as yourself that it will work well as you have already gave examples how it would work for you, but as far as basically redesigning an OS (because it wouldn't be as easy as just slapping Mac OS on the iPad) the folks who will be able to really take advantage of this like you said are the power users and that is pretty niche in the iPad world, maybe not so much in this forums, but this forums is already a niche of Apple device users.
Naaaah no way, you are way off… the key feature is quite clearly going to be a calculator app.
Yeah I 100% agree with you even the cheapest possible laptop replacement 10th gen iPad with its poor display, no Apple Pencil 2 support and USB-C port which is slow AF coupled with the Magic Keyboard folio is currently £778 here in the UK for a meagre 64gb storage… where you can now get the M1 MBA for about £100 more if that, it’s just makes no sense to go down the iPad route.
The question is, what is Apple's vision of the iPad and how does the overlapping products acheive that vision?
Yeah if apple really want this to be a laptop replacement it needs either a dual boot option or possible the OS built from the ground up so it has its own unique OS, but the big question is… does apple feel their efforts will be rewarded with more $$$… I very much doubt it.
Apple sells more iPads in a given year than ALL Macs combined.
Do you enjoy making stuff up?
Ah, people always make this mistake. 🙂 “Revenue” does not equate to “Unit Sales”. Unit sales are “how many individuals are purchasing devices”, Revenue is “how much money, in total, is made from SELLING the devices.”
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Yes, but there are billions of people that don’t have 5 year old iPads. Or even 1 year old iPads. There’s an enormous market of folks that have never owned an iPad, that want an iPad, but at this time, Apple’s unable to make enough of them.
Well here in the UK at least all models of iPad are available for delivery either next day or within a week… so the stock levels are quite clearly far greater than the demand for them, and yes that includes the brand new iPad 10 and the Pro M2’s….
As would be expected for the end of year sales. “Within a week” indicates “we don’t have enough to meet demand right now, but more are coming off the assembly line and they’re going directly into buyers’ hands”, which is a good position to be in.
But when I say within a week I mean the odd ones spec’d up ones are due to be delivered on 15th November, 95% of all iPads though are next day delivery here.
Of those billions, most of those who will buy a tablet will buy an Android tablet, because it's cheaper... not because Apple cannot make enough iPads
The fact that more iPads are sold than Macs does not mean they are more successful, but it's due to them being cheaper (most iPads sold are entry level base models).
Right. I’d expect them to be available. Companies plan and prepare all year to have stock for the November/December period. As we get closer to the end of December, it should be clear if the “constrained by manufacturing” story they provided in their quarterly report aligns with reality 🙂
Yes, they will. And, with over 6 billion folks in the world, there’s plenty of folks for Android to sell, say, 4 billion, and Apple to still sell around 40-50 million iPads.
