Wouldn’t that finally be something that exploited the iPad’s totally over-provisioned hardware?
Meanwhile, iPad users have gotten ever more frustrated by the limitations of the iPadOS.
MacOS assumes a mouse and full keyboard, the iPad doesn’t.
The iPad already makes a great laptop.Daniel Romero / Unsplash
Except the iPad, designed for touch, does an amazing job of working with a keyboard and trackpad.
Now, imagine the inverse.
And speaking ofthe Apple Pencil, Apple already lets us use the Mac in a semi-touch mode.
The Mac and the iPad, together at last?.Daniel Romero / Unsplash
Sidecar puts a Mac window onto your iPad.
Surely, if anyone can work out how to make the Mac finger-friendly, it’s Apple.
Virtual Mac
Virtualization is when you run one computer’s operating system inside another.
Try this with a Mac.Serena Tyrrell / Unsplash
It works when both operating systems run natively on the same hardware.
you might run Windows on an Intel Mac, for example.
And you could, of course, run a virtual Mac on the iPad’s M4 Mac chip.
Serena Tyrrell / Unsplash
But Apple could go one better.
It could, for example, allow drag-and-drop between iPad apps and the Mac VM.
You might have Mac apps in the iPad’s dock.
No, it wouldn’t be perfect, but itwouldbe super useful.
“iPad Pro buyers already value the product for its flexibility.
If there’s anything that hardcore iPad users are used to, though, it’s disappointment.
