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.ps and .eps formats are no longer significant since service bureaus prefer PDF since almost two decades. Legacy graphic libraries and clip-art may be well converted with other utilities and applications. Not the end of the world. Meanwhile Preview is a handy utility for many tasks, it should be maintained.

22july2013 said:

I'd be happy to see it, but here's what Apple said on a nearly identical question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOYikXbC6Fs

22july2013 said:

I'd be happy to see it, but here's what Apple said on a nearly identical question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOYikXbC6Fs

This is not the same. That was about the convergence of iOS and macOS. The issue is full macOS on a tablet Mac. Some Touch-suitable UI elements have been already ported from iOS to macOS. This is not convergence. As long as the architectures remain different, we can’t talk about convergence. And the tablet Mac may feature more ports, more I/O, more drivers and so on…

A Touch UI based macOS is not a dream, but a possibility. So Apple’a port of macOS to the iPad would be a great and respectable endeavor that every Mac enthousiast would embrace. I can well imagine a Finder lying behind this on-screen keyboard, showing a folder name touch-selected, ready to be replaced by what I type on my iPad keyboard. Actually a touch-selection can well replace a mouse-selection in terms of accuracy. The problem was the multi-tasking performance compromise introduced by multiple overlapping windows, but macOS has already resolved this issue by full-screen windows and the swipe gesture to navigate between them. That feature is just waiting for an iPad powerful enough to handle Mac-like true multitasking, the power of M2 makes this problem obsolete. Wouldn’t a tablet Mac kill the iPad? Well, not necessarily. The iPad  may continue to survive with the A series, and the tablet Mac may thrive on the M series, iPadOS and macOS being their respective OS. 

Apple is being pushed to higher and higher end by Chinese companies. This is a deliberate tactic and Apple may need to develop a substantial maneuver to regain the entry level market and even the mid-range. One day it will find itself at the peak of performance and state-of-the-art production as the sole owner of the niche market corner into which it painted itself. 

A product or paradigm that needs "education" is born dead. Why would I need education for a thing that I will use only occasionally? The whole point of Macintosh was to be a computer that wouldn't need "education". If you want to educate me, Mr. Tim Apple, here is my iPhone camera pointed to the street I am walking thru: Drop useful informaton labels on my display and update them in real time as I walk, to augment my simple and unimportant reality. If you intend to sell me an expensive head-mounted computer for such a simple thing, sorry, I don't buy it.