• thehatfox@lemmy.worldOP
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    7 months ago

    iPadOS feels like a real bottleneck for the iPad Pro line now. All that horsepower but limited room to gallop.

    I’m not an advocate of putting macOS on iPads, but iPadOS really needs to expand more, especially for things like file management and multitasking. Multiple audio channels when?

    I’ve seen some people speculating based on the new Magic Keyboard having an Esc key that something dev friendly is coming so who knows.

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      7 months ago

      I think the option to dual boot or run some type of virtualized sandbox should be present at this point for power users.

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        7 months ago

        macOS is really not optimised for touch though. macOS on a 13 inch iPad with a keyboard and trackpad attached would probably be usable, albeit with limited IO. But trying to use macOS with just fingers isn’t going to be much fun, especially for more complicated software.

        Personally I’d rather see Apple further develop iPadOS as a touch first productivity OS, and leave macOS for the Mac.

        Maybe if Apple opens up the App Store rules (willingly or not) more eventually virtualisation will be possible on an iPad, allowing people to DIY a macOS-on-iPad setup if they really wanted to.