Apple's Masterstroke: Virtualize MacOS on the Powerful iPad Pro
It might be the only way we ever get a touch-screen Mac
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iPad Pro Wow, this is a great idea! Virtual MacOS on the iPad!
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Pointless article... Not even a leak, juste wishfull thinking by a guy, like the countless threads here on MacRumors. Apple is smart enough to know that MacOS on iPad would kill any incentive for developers to develop for iPadOS, so they won't do it... (and this is not even considering the question of cannibalisation of the MBA...)
People need to accept that improving iPadOS is a slow process that takes many years and that some desktop apps will never come or never come fully to iPadOS...
People need to accept that improving iPadOS is a slow process that takes many years and that some desktop apps will never come or never come fully to iPadOS...
Looks like trying to be something that isn’t close to itApple's Masterstroke: Virtualize MacOS on the Powerful iPad Pro
It might be the only way we ever get a touch-screen Macwww.msn.com
Yes, please!
FFS touch screen desktop operating systems suck and almost everyone with a PC laptop with touchscreen hates it and forgets the feature is there.
Close but no cigar, it's the apps I want not the OS. What really makes sense would be native containerization of MacOS. This would be more efficient than a full VM and allow still Mac apps to run alongside iPadOS apps on the iPad. Containerization adds just the missing parts of MacOS and does not require booting MacOS. Essential a mirror of how iPad apps run under MacOS now.
MacOS is the wrong operating system for the iPad, but containerization would allow Mac apps to run within iPadOS with the Magic Keyboard or other keyboard and mouse. Containerized MacOS apps would preserve the security advantages of iOS. Requiring a physical keyboard and pointer avoids the interface problems of trying to work apps designed for a keyboard and pointer through a touch interface. Enabling the virtualization interface on iOS could also open the door to containerized ARM Windows apps running on the iPad without requiring a full Windows VM boot. The same containerization could allow MacOS apps to run natively on the Vision Pro.
The long game may be apps that run equally well with Vision, touch, or keyboard interfaces but MacOS app containers would be very useful in making the most powerful apps run on all the Apple platforms in the long transition. I'd love to see this as a surprise at WWDC.
MacOS is the wrong operating system for the iPad, but containerization would allow Mac apps to run within iPadOS with the Magic Keyboard or other keyboard and mouse. Containerized MacOS apps would preserve the security advantages of iOS. Requiring a physical keyboard and pointer avoids the interface problems of trying to work apps designed for a keyboard and pointer through a touch interface. Enabling the virtualization interface on iOS could also open the door to containerized ARM Windows apps running on the iPad without requiring a full Windows VM boot. The same containerization could allow MacOS apps to run natively on the Vision Pro.
The long game may be apps that run equally well with Vision, touch, or keyboard interfaces but MacOS app containers would be very useful in making the most powerful apps run on all the Apple platforms in the long transition. I'd love to see this as a surprise at WWDC.
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