Because they only have given cat or location names to the Mac OS. Nothing has changed so why are you confused?
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The iPad Just Got a Lot More Like a Mac Thanks to These 20+ New Features
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If ipad OS was a bit cheaper, and with the keyboard, pencil, cover, cost less than an macbook air, I am buying, but it is more expensive than a laptop, does less than a laptop, the ipad needs SD card expansion... Yet Apple refuses.. Why? You fill the ipad with video in about 90 seconds, then it takes 2 weeks to transfer... Apple is really confused..
I’m sure there are lots of people who only have an iPad. But those that want more powerful iPad software or want to be able to run macOS on an iPad most likely own both an iPad and a Mac. And Apple is just fine with that.
I am not, Mac OS 26 makes sense as a name, 99% of conversation going forward will be around saying "Mac 26.. " I have to use wikipedia to look up what year my OS came out, using High Sierra right now [it was 2017..] it makes more sense to use the date, as we are stupid humans...
I’m going to miss Split View. I hope the new windowing system provides an easy way to recreate it.
The keynote showed them resizing two side by side windows just like you would in the old Split Screen.
The previous multitasking efforts in iPadOS looked and felt like trying to awkwardly graft the feature on top of what was there to work with. With iPadOS 26 it really looks and feels baked in at the core and part of the foundation. Nice work Apple. I hope the coders get some nice bonuses.
Nope. iPadOS is a direct derivative from iOS. iOS may have been built on the foundation of macOS back in the day but is now pretty much its own thing. In the end, iPadOS will displace macOS and unify the system together. Soon all Apple devices will be running on iOS.
Just a few final features needed and that's literally a desktop and associated accessible folder. Ability to drag download and view and launch files/folders from the Home Screen.
And have the ability to hide the launch pad and we are there. MacOS Light
And have the ability to hide the launch pad and we are there. MacOS Light
We need to thank podcasters like Federico Viticci and Jason Snell. They kept beating the drum about improvements iPad software needed. Apple listened.
Sticking mac onto iPad hardware is a half-baked solution. There is no reason to have a touch first device in a dev environment. You need a keyboard. If you need a keyboard to do most of your work, get a Mac.
Many developers appreciate having Terminal. It's a way to get to the UNIX underpinnings of the operating system, and do things without the need to rely on a GUI. Getting rid of Terminal (or any other command-line interpreter) would mean cutting developers off from that valuable programming access. It doesn't seem likely, unless there is a better alternative.
I totally agree, the moment I stuck a bluetooth $1 ebay keyboard onto my ipad mini 2 back in 2013, I wondered what is this? An ipad or a netbook macbook? It sort of at the time did 90% of the same as the macbook, but the mac did video editing... It always felt a bit odd sticking a keyboard on the ipad, yes it makes typing better, but then why not just have a netbook macbook mini? It really goes really goofy.. I am not sure Apple knows exactly what or when or which or..
You know that iPad was in development longer than the iPhone, right?
No functional difference, which is the important distinction.
There are just people that want all the ports and slots from all of their old devices. I am not surprised they are not asking for serial and parallel ports along with CD drives.
Because you have a single device which meets 100% of your needs.
I predict iPadOS28 will be able to run macOS apps natively.
Or, less likely but still plausible to me, iPad and Mac will merge, with Macs getting touchscreens, and iPadOS and macOS 28 being essentially identical, including the ability to run each others apps; but only the new touchscreen-enabled Macs will be able to run iPad apps natively.
Or, less likely but still plausible to me, iPad and Mac will merge, with Macs getting touchscreens, and iPadOS and macOS 28 being essentially identical, including the ability to run each others apps; but only the new touchscreen-enabled Macs will be able to run iPad apps natively.
You may be right that it is confusing. But all recent releases have had a name and a number. So the concept of dual or parallel name/number branding is not new
Who uses the term "netbook" anymore? This is the most usage I've seen of that term in nearly 20 years in this thread. I had the iPad mini 2, 4, and 5. All were the same size and used the same compromised third party keyboard accessories. There is a reason Apple has never made one of these and will probably never make one. It's awkward and cramped. I think they have that bit pretty well figured out. The mini is more likely to be used single-handed and in portrait mode than any other iPad. It has distinct use cases. As such I used a keyboard cover probably 1% of the time and eventually ditched it for a simple cover and the regular Apple Magic Keyboard, which I still use with my iPads today, also not that frequently.
If true, how are developers going to run the tools that they need to develop software? A good example: run VM software, run Linux containers, Xcode