"Apple says the majority of Mac users also own an iPad, which likely means macOS is never coming to the iPad"

I, for one, don't want macOS on my iPad.

I love the simplicity of the magic piece of glass that is iPad.

I do wish we had an iPadOS that worked more cleanly with my Mac. Hard to put into words, but I wish the shared models were more similar.

Finder on the Mac and Files on iPad for example. Very different experience.

But macOS on my iPad. Nah.

https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/15/majority-of-mac-users-also-own-ipad/
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@davemark I'd prolly settle for Apple to let compilers and other software creation tools into the app store, and to allow apps to bundle and launch sub-processes, plus maybe allow apps to vend their sub-processes to other apps (so e.g. there could be a Clang package, and a separate IDE app that calls on this package to actually compile stuff, and a Git app that can check files out into the IDE's documents folder, and I'd be able to build my own apps and test them on the iPad.

@davemark yeah, we need a ‘new’ OS, designed around touch, with the power and flexibility of a general purpose OS, like MacOS.

@davemark Or alternately, give me an MacBook Air that supports the Pencil and has a convertible screen so I can use it as a laptop or a tablet, whatever I need right now. And ideally will be 100% compatible with running iPad apps even if the devs didn't tick the Mac checkbox. Because *nobody* checks that option.

@davemark which is another way of saying ‘just remove the artificial walls around ipados.’

@davemark I find I am already greatly missing the Smart Keyboard Folio.

It allowed you to use your iPad like a tablet and have a decent touch keyboard with it at all times.

@davemark I think the dual boot idea is stupid but I am ok with the virtualization idea floated by Steve Troughton Smith

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I still shudder from the time I touched the screen of my MacBook.

Maybe thats why Apple makes 4 figure monitors that are damaged if you touch them.