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Re:iPad Pro M1 by ideamotor on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @02:53PM (#26879448)
Apple should let users alternate between iOS and macOS on this device. They should also enable touch on the iMac and let users run iOS on that as well.
Re:iPad Pro M1 by dhagz on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @05:46PM (#26882213)
Give it like, five more years.

Big Sur already takes a lot of design cues from iOS - they're prepping the merge. They're just making sure the frog doesn't realize the pot is starting to boil.

Re:iPad Pro M1 by whimsicalism on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @03:01PM (#26879619)
Agreed. They can already support mice, why can't I just use it as a computer when I want!
Re:iPad Pro M1 by brundolf on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @04:57PM (#26881559)
I would've thought this was a really silly notion until now, when they're not just running on similar chips but on the same chip.
Re:iPad Pro M1 by akkawwakka on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @06:19AM (#26887557)
Agreed. They can do it nicely, too, by extending the "Handoff" concept to further replicate application state between macOS and iPad OS apps.

It would probably be an opt-in thing for apps, but even without any fancy state replication it'd be just fine.

Re:iPad Pro M1 by colejohnson66 on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @03:59PM (#26880658)
If Apple allowed macOS on the iPad, I wonder if they’d allow Rosetta?
Re:iPad Pro M1 by LaSombra on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @04:57PM (#26881563)
I do not doubt that this may become a thing in the future
Re:iPad Pro M1 by ideamotor on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @02:32AM (#26886067)
I actually do doubt it. They want to sell multiple devices, and they have this vague notion of "minimalism" that still dictates design. The idea of running two operating systems on the same device probably gives someone at Apple a stomach flu. They want to merge the two. But I don't. I want the best of both worlds which means differentiation and just - more -.