Friday, 23 April 2021

MacOS on the iPad Pro would be nice but iPadOS still has its charms

With the iPad Pro now using the same core M1 hardware as MacBooks and iMacs, the shortcomings of iPadOS are standing out in sharp relief. Monica Chin states it bluntly: Put macOS on the iPad, you cowards.

We're moving toward a weird point in the evolution of these two devices where the MacBook can do everything the iPad can do (but it doesn't have the touchscreen hardware to take advantage of all of it), while the iPad can still only do iPad things (even though features of macOS would take good advantage of its touchscreen capability).

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