Ok, I’ve never used that, but thanks for telling me about it. 👍🏻. I guess for me, I like using separate windows in my Stages in Stage manager, and then I can use them side-by-side, and such. 👍🏻. But hopefully they add a tabbed option in the iPad version! 👍🏻
The iPad Pro will sell far more than anything you will ever come up with in your life. So Apple will be sleeping far better than you ever will.
Actually, I have never argued that iPadOS can’t be improved. What I have argued for is improving iPadOS rather than replacing iPadOS with macOS. I also don’t care for the arrogance of some who insist that “real professionals” can’t use an iPad or iPadOS, as if the professionals who do such as myself are not professionals…
To clarify, I A. only angry reacted because there’s no disagree button, and B. I mainly disagree with the last part of your comment. I am fine with improving iPadOS for more people. The key to me is improving iPadOS, not replacing it with macOS. What I don’t want is for iPads shipping with macOS installed on them rather than iPadOS. This would be detrimental to those of us who prefer iPadOS. And it would be a horrible experience for using macOS on a tablet, nothing is scaled properly for touch interaction. I’m not opposed to iPadOS supporting VMs though. But the day Apple starts supporting native installation of macOS on non-Macs (which doesn’t even make sense with the naming convention since it’s literally in the name), I feel that would be a signal that Apple had given up on improving iPadOS, which obviously would harm those of us who prefer iPadOS over macOS.
i've been on this topic for at least 10 pages now. There's like one person that asked to replace macos with ipados.
And there have been tons of people who have argued here that iPadOS isn’t a “real OS”, that “real professionals” can’t use iPadOS (apparently professionals such as myself who use an iPad for their workflow are “fake professionals”?), that Apple’s somehow cheating people, that the iPad is a dying product, etc. All of those ideas I oppose and disagree with.
nobody said ipad is a dying product. nobody said apple's cheating people. nobody said real professionals can't use ipados. you are literally making stuff out of thin air.
I think we mostly agree. You find iPadOS suitable for your use case and that is great for you. Someone else might prefer a more macOS like experience and I suggest that should be an option. iPadOS should be the default "out of the box" OS and macOS should be an option. And if Apple does not want to support macOS on an iPad then at least provide the option to install an OS froma third party. This should be the case for the iPhone as well.
Have you been reading the same form thread I have? Just look back through the pages of comments here. You have several people complaining about iPadOS, claiming that the M chips are overkill for the iPad because the iPads don’t run macOS, etc. I did get confused because the “the iPad is a dying product” comment was in a different thread, but the other things I cited have definitely been argued in this thread…
Better at being useless as a touch-only device you mean. Nothing in macOS is properly scaled for touch interaction. So you would have to use the iPad with a keyboard and trackpad 24/7. Better to just improve iPadOS.
And Windows has much bigger buttons than macOS. Apple would have to scale macOS to basically be similar to iPadOS to make it well touch-optimized like iPadOS already is. Look how much screen space Windows wastes on simple things like the windowing buttons. The traffic light buttons would have to be replaced with far larger and clunkier buttons to make them touch optimized. And no, I don’t think improving iPadOS equals resulting in macOS. MacOS has loads of legacy thinking and code that Apple won’t be able to drop anytime soon because too many niche people expect it too stick around. iPadOS is free from these limits. Apple can innovate with iPadOS. With macOS, it will likely always retain a Terminal app, because it’s always had one. But 99.9% of modern computer users never use a Terminal. They don’t know what a Terminal is. So why include it in a modern OS? MacOS will likely always retain legacy and antiquated things like this, while iPadOS will likely always be far more modern in its thinking.
That’s not even remotely true. My iPad can do a lot of things that my iPhone can’t. The “iPad is just a big phone” argument is outdated…
It’s not just the bigger screen. I cannot plug my iPhone into an external desktop monitor and use it like a desktop. I can do that with iPadOS. I can’t use several of the apps I regularly use on my iPad on my iPhone because they don’t exist on iOS, but do on iPadOS. It doesn’t magnetize to a keyboard and trackpad. I cannot use an Apple Pencil on my iPhone. So no, the iPad is not just a big iPhone.
