iPad iPad Pro Going Back to MacBook Pro

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But I strongly disagree with the idea that Apple should shoehorn macOS onto an iPad, and that it’s supposedly “idiotic” to not do so. macOS isn’t designed for that hardware. A lot about macOS would need to be changed to make that work, and the battery life and thermal envelope would be dramatically reduced, likely leading to some other downsides in addition. If you’re going to have to make so many changes to macOS in order to make it work, why not just continue to improve iPadOS, which is what most people want when they buy an iPad in the first place?…

You may prefer macOS, and that’s perfectly fine, I respect your opinion, but I don’t believe it’s “idiotic” of Apple to provide a more modern software approach that’s actually optimized for the hardware… In my opinion, what Apple is doing with iPadOS is far better than if they were to shoehorn a legacy desktop OS onto a device it was never designed for, where users would lose simple access to basic surface-level functionality like uninstalling apps, where with macOS 26, the only way to “uninstall” an app is to hunt for it in Finder and delete it, and hope and pray that that actually cleanly uninstalls it and doesn’t leave little bits of the app in other parts of the file system… 🤦🏼‍♂️

I agree. I very much prefer the iPad to the Mac (it gets everything I need done both personally and professionally). There's some things I'd like to see improved on it, but I'm happy with the system as is. Putting macOS on an iPad may seem like an obvious option to a lot of people, but they don’t consider that most Mac apps just aren't designed for touch input. Yes, you can get away with it the same way you can with putting iPadOS on an iMac. It could work, but will it be the best experience for the user?

Though, I am interested in how this dynamic changes when the touch screen MacBooks start shipping.