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Re:New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support by MuffinFlavored on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @01:17PM (#22618939)
> Until you can run MacOS on it

Do we think we'll see full blown MacOS/equivalent on iPads in the next 2-3 years?

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Re:New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support by apozem on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @02:05PM (#22619514)
They don't want the legacy UI and code of macOS, they want iPadOS to be good enough that you don't need a Mac. Hence why the last couple years of iPadOS have been covering more and more use cases.

As a frontend web developer, I would love for them to cover my use case. A native terminal and desktop browser tools in iPadOS would get me to ditch my MacBook Pro in a heartbeat.

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Re:New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support by philsnow on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @02:13PM (#22619585)
Feels a lot like ChromeOS: declare bankruptcy on a lot of the userspace cruft that's accumulated over the decades
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Re:New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support by mvid on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @01:27PM (#22619047)
It seems more like they are pulling macOS and iOS together, so we will probably see some hybrid of both on both devices. Hopefully better than the Windows implementation though
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