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Cesar Battistini Maziero said:

Apple Shouldn't release any products not capable of apple intelligence anymore.

The base iPad could come with a M1.

nubus said:

blastdoor said:

The quote that resonated with me from the WSJ article is that Apple can do pretty much anything they set their minds to. I think that really is the bottom line. Apple has competent management, smart employees, and practically limitless financial resources. When you have those things, you can do just about anything (within the laws of physics)

Having an idea and an abundance of cash didn't work at Xerox PARC. It doesn't help much at IBM or Intel. The main new feature of iPhone 15 Pro was an extra button. USB-C was a requirement made by politicians. The main new feature of the next iOS will be... OpenAI powered by Microsoft.

Jobs made Apple the most valuable company in 2011. Cook has moved Apple down to #3. It has been a decade of iterative upgrades from Apple with AirPods and M-series being the stars. 

blastdoor said:

The quote that resonated with me from the WSJ article is that Apple can do pretty much anything they set their minds to. I think that really is the bottom line. Apple has competent management, smart employees, and practically limitless financial resources. When you have those things, you can do just about anything (within the laws of physics)

AppleZulu said:

This is a thorough and intelligent review, and I appreciate the note within that putting MacOS on iPads is a bad idea.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: MacOS already runs everything from a MacBook to a multi-screen Mac Pro workstation. The compromises required to accommodate both a touchscreen iPad and a not-at-all-suitable-for-touch Mac Pro in one operating system would result in bloatware that renders both ends of that spectrum inferior to what they are now, and absolutely ruins everything between. The clamor for MacOS on an iPad is nothing but myopia.

Can iPadOS be made more robust? Yes, and it undoubtedly will be. Making it a distinct sibling to iOS is surely about more than accommodating screen sizes and aspect ratios. The caption for the article above should be a big clue: because Apple creates hardware and software in tandem, they can give careful consideration to their development pipeline. Any new piece of hardware shouldn't be taxed at all by the OS version initially shipped on it. If a new model isn't "the hardware of the future running software of the past," you shouldn't buy it. This year's hardware should be built to accommodate the demands of operating systems and software several years down the road.

With a little foresight, the fact that iPadOS is distinct from iOS and the fact iPads are made with the significantly more powerful M-series processors should tell you a lot about what's coming. What it shouldn't do is make you shortsightedly demand that Apple turn macOS into Windows and crapify the entire lineage of iPads, MacBooks and Macs just to satisfy a fan-fiction narrative and come out with a miserable Surface-like hybrid that nobody will actually want.

red oak said:

DEI is a cancer in an organization.   Shut that crap down