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fastasleep said:

Vertium said:

Click bait will do that to you.  Even the review itself is sketchy... "you're going to love this... unless you don't".  I'm sticking with Catalina for a while longer.  It's stable, MacOS doesn't try to outsmart me with how I need to arrange my control bar icons, I get to manage my palette, all my after-market products work great.  I have no need for the "improved" MacOS, and making it more like my iPhone is NOT a selling feature.  It's a pipe dream that they'll ever actually unify the OS architecture, proved by the fact they can't even get iPhones and iPads (essentially the same thing in different form factors) to have a unified OS.  I'm an Apple fan, but I'm not dropping $3k a year to keep up with the latest iPhone (seriously, every year?  at $1400 a pop?) and MBP. 

They aren't trying to "unify" the OSes. They've outright said they're not doing that. They purposely forked iOS and iPadOS. Nobody said you have to buy a new iPhone/MacBook Pro every year. What a bunch of FUD.

Ofer said:

At the end of the day, we live in a capitalist society where the sole aim of business endeavors is to make money, no matter the expense to our lives, the environment, etc. Relying on corporate ethics within such an environment to do the right thing for social good is delusional. Yes, Apple is better than a lot of other corporations in some things. But let’s not forget that their primary goal is to gain capital. Everything else is secondary to that.

CheeseFreeze said:

charlesatlas said:

I can actually believe it. These iPad Pros have as much RAM and storage as my 2015 MBP, along with a faster processor, so there's no reason they can't run Mac OS.

The fact that you could doesn’t mean you should. It will confuse the heck out of the customer in respect to what the iPad is and should be. It will be a compromise operating system competing with macOS and iPadOS. 

The fact an M2 can run macOS isn’t relevant. That’s just technology. This is about product.

danvm said:

raoulduke42 said:

AppleZulu said:

The perennial rumor of a Mac/iPad hybrid keeps coming up because the MS Surface is such a sleek, efficient, dominating category killer. 

Seriously. MacOS has to run intensive software on the Mac Pro, with multiple giant screens that ergonomically will not function injury-free as touch screens. Making that OS also work in a touch environment on an iPad is a recipe for widows-like bloatware that tries to do all things, but none very well. 

It’s entirely possible someone in the bowels of the big round building is experimenting, but those experiments are unlikely to ever see the light of day. 

But I want my toaster-fridge! /s 

But seriously, you're 1000% correct. No one ever uses an MS Surface without the keyboard/attachment because no one ever bothered to write tablet focused software for the thing. So it's just a ergo-nightmare laptop. Plus you get Windows! Hard pass.

Maybe I'm wrong and Apple will drop some weirdo mutant MacPad OS, but I doubt it.

I had a Surface Pro 4 and use it without keyboard for some tasks, like browsing, social media and watching streaming services. In those tasks the experience was identical to my iPad.  Stil, the iPad is a better tablet and iPad OS is better with a touch interface.  Things change when you add a keyboard / trackpad, and the Surface Pro jumps ahead with a better experience.  As a laptop, Windows is far better than iPad OS.  Both devices have their compromises.  Which one is better depends in the tasks you do.