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I don't watch movies on my iPad so I guess my choice to keep my 2018 iPad Pro 12.9 that works perfectly and is as fast as anything in use, was the right choice.

It will be interesting to hear if the original Magic Keyboard works on the new 12.9. Has anyone seen anything on this yet? UPDATE: According to this video, it fits perfectly. So what was the issue that Apple said it was not compatible?
The new iPad is 0.5mm thicker (likely due to requirements of the XDR screen). that means that the previous magic keyboard is a little snug when you fold it up. Apple wasn't comfortable saying that it "fit". It might be a problem if you also have a screen protector but probably not otherwise.
 
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When iPadOS can make CIFS/NFS file-level shares and iSCSI block-level mounts ‘first class’ citizens for multi-terabyte storage access (Final Cut, ProRAW files takes up most of that,) instead of shares being relegated to an insignificant Files.app, then it will (was, gave it to grandparents) continue to be a shiny Wacom, email and video machine.

For many prosumers, iPadOS may be enough. Not denying that. But personally, for me, it’s not even close to being viable for work.
Yeah, it’s true Apple may never support certain features on the iPad and it’ll never be viable for work for millions of people. Some of those will keep the last macOS device they bought, others will move to other platforms where there’s more flexibility even than macOS provides.

It’s a win-win, really. Apple gets millions of new customers that want what they’re selling and those that need critical features that aren’t offered by Apple get to use a new system that does ALL the things they want to do and so very much more!
 
others will move to other platforms where there’s more flexibility even than macOS provides.

True. I’ve been a big advocate of Elementary, which is – and feels like macOS. But the adoption (and awareness of it even existing) isn’t there just yet.

It’s a win-win, really. Apple gets millions of new customers that want what they’re selling and those that need critical features that aren’t offered by Apple get to use a new system that does ALL the things they want to do and so very much more!

I tentatively agree, but in the back of my mind, I keep thinking that they’re going to bastardise macOS by creating some kind of hybrid with iPadOS that would be more of a regression overall.
 
It's more about how some things just can't be done on iOS for no apparent reason. For example, the other day, a friend asked me how they could translate YouTube comments. I told them to simply select the comments and copy paste them into Google Translate. Well, you can't select comments nor copy them in the YouTube app. In iOS, there is no way whatsoever to select comments, copy them, and paste them. There are countless little annoying things like this that you take for granted on any computer made in the past 50 years.
Since you can select and copy the YouTube comments in Safari on iOS, I am going to blame the YouTube app developer, not Apple.
 
“ this impressive performance improvement is held back by the iPadOS operating system”

DUH! Even my iPad Air is held back by iPadOS. The number of work-arounds and trips to my MB are ridiculous. And I feel,like I’m back in the Mac-Windows font compatibility war. C’mon Apple (and third-party apps)! It’s supposed to be all the same ecosystem
 
Nah, you've created a fantasy here. iPad has its place, and that place is not as a Mac replacement. Not even close. And yes, Mac sales not only beat iPad sales, but grew more substantially year over year than iPad did. People doing work needed a Mac.

I don’t disagree but I think the difference in sales can be accounted for by:

1) The Mac had just updated to Apple Silicon which a lot of people were waiting for (I purchased exactly because of this).

2) People we’re waiting for the updated iPad before upgrading (that’s exactly what I was doing). I have the new 12.9” being delivered next week. Despite what people are telling themselves on the interwebs, it is absolutely worth upgrading the 2018 model IPP. Leave it any longer and you will lose a lot of cash on resale. Right now, the resale value offsets the cost of the new model to something much more palatable than skipping this model and buying the next model.

I think the sales this year of iPads may surprise people, even given supposed chip shortages.
 
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It's more about how some things just can't be done on iOS for no apparent reason. For example, the other day, a friend asked me how they could translate YouTube comments. I told them to simply select the comments and copy paste them into Google Translate. Well, you can't select comments nor copy them in the YouTube app. In iOS, there is no way whatsoever to select comments, copy them, and paste them. There are countless little annoying things like this that you take for granted on any computer made in the past 50 years.

That‘s another example of a fault of the App, not the OS. What you describe works perfectly from Safari…

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With the prices they charge for a 2tb you could buy 2 MacBooks . People are saying ohhh WWDC and iPadOS 15 but nothings changed since the last couple of times.

Not to mention even before you throw in a magic keyboard for 200-300 bucks extra over the normal price of an ipad, makes me wonder if they take us for suckers or are they playing a hidden card under their sleeve.

But here’s the thing, you don’t need to pay $300 for a Magic Keyboard, there’s many other options out there and at much cheaper prices. Hell, I don’t even use a keyboard case. I use a foldable Bluetooth keyboard and a full-size Magic Trackpad with a 12 South Compass Pro when travelling. It’s much smaller, much lighter and much cheaper, more ergonomic and still allows me to use portrait mode….which is a much better format for working on actual documents. AND, it’s transferable between subsequent devices.

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For example on iPhone if you swipe right you get the App Library. On iPad in iOS 15 if you swipe right you get an empty page with zero apps. It’s your drag and drop folders page, drag a photo off a hard drive onto that page. Drag and drop a link onto it page. Like a normal computer home screen you can drag files and things onto and actually work on a project on hand? That. That is why iPad needs. That itself would be huge. Do I make sense?
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I tentatively agree, but in the back of my mind, I keep thinking that they’re going to bastardise macOS by creating some kind of hybrid with iPadOS that would be more of a regression overall.
It’s VERY possible, so I’d also suggest folks turn off Auto Update.
 
I don’t disagree but I think the difference in sales can be accounted for by:
Unit sales for iPads is higher. I’ve been watching this for a few years, now, ever since Apple said in one of their keynotes that the iPad outsells every competitor’s entire laptop line. As Apple doesn’t provide unit numbers anymore, you have to get the information from other companies that perform a unit sales analysis. That fact has held true even through the pandemic.
 
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Unit sales for iPads is higher. I’ve been watching this for a few years, now, ever since Apple said in one of their keynotes that the iPad outsells every competitor’s entire laptop line. As Apple doesn’t provide unit numbers anymore, you have to get the information from other companies that perform a unit sales analysis. That fact has held true even through the pandemic.

I wasn't aware of that. Very impressive!
 
It’s not a phone operating system. The original iPhone had a tablet operating system. iPad work predates the iPhone.

Wasn’t expecting this misleading inaccuracy from Mr. Spock.
The iPhone may have started out with a few multitouch tablet prototypes but what came out of it was an operating system for a phone released on a phone. There’s a reason that people called the initial iPad a giant iPhone/iPod touch and that hasn’t changed much.
 
I was truly hoping for a crossover to MacOS with this device. Unfortunately Apple does not agree leaving it to be a overkilled ipad stuck in wrong OS. It uses the same apps as my daughters ipad mini.

This complaint is exactly like buying a high performance sports car capable of going 200 mph, then complaining because you live in the suburbs and have to observe the same 35 mph speed limit as the Toyota Corolla - then complaining about how great it would be if the company you bought the car from would install an expressway between your house and the grocery store.

it’s not iOS that’s limiting anything - it’s the lack of “Pro Level Apps”.
 
I have a feeling there's going to be continued iOSification of MacOS or there will be some type of convergent UI. At some point iPadOS gets a developer / power user mode that enables MacOS UI.

Even though Apple said that’s NOT what it’s doing (as recently as the day after the iPad announcements)?
 
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