The same near-top-line cpu in both tablets and desktops. Its a recognition that the space between a tablet and a full blown workstation isnt in the processor anymore. Its pretty much the size of the screen, and the presence or absence of a keyboard and mouse.
I don't care what they do with the iPad operating system as long as they fix the god-awful multi-tasking interface. It's the least discoverable and jankiest way to try to do two things at once on a computer. Truly execrable.
The obvious thing is to let you link two iPads and use them as a single device, with different apps on different screens. It wouldn't matter if the second iPad just became a slave device showing video and sending back touch events. There are surely those who would buy a second or even third iPad to use it that way. (Not me, but we all like to mock those who buy every possible Apple product, and this would be a good way to milk them further.)
Either iOS evolves into a desktop OS, possibly a crippled one. Or macOS evolves into a mobile OS, basically: Same OS under the hood, but different interfaces.
Or the two merge at some point and become compatible but different "flavours" of the same underlying code.
Everyone was afraid that Apple was going to turn Macs into iPads.
This makes me think Apple are going to turn iPads into Macs.
You mean an ARM SoC with non-upgradeable soldered memory and storage? That’s the tablet setup that they are now stuffing into their laptops and desktops.
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Everyone was afraid that Apple was going to turn Macs into iPads.
This makes me think Apple are going to turn iPads into Macs.
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I don't care what they do with the iPad operating system as long as they fix the god-awful multi-tasking interface. It's the least discoverable and jankiest way to try to do two things at once on a computer. Truly execrable.
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There's still the difference between iOS and macOS and I wonder which way that'll end up.
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IMHO there is no point in putting the M1 in an iPad if the end goal is not to run macOS at some point.
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Well, that's the question.
Either iOS evolves into a desktop OS, possibly a crippled one.
Or macOS evolves into a mobile OS, basically: Same OS under the hood, but different interfaces.
Or the two merge at some point and become compatible but different "flavours" of the same underlying code.
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Everyone was afraid that Apple was going to turn Macs into iPads. This makes me think Apple are going to turn iPads into Macs.
You mean an ARM SoC with non-upgradeable soldered memory and storage? That’s the tablet setup that they are now stuffing into their laptops and desktops.