dotcomcto

Now that we've made your keyboard app irrelevant, you're more than welcome to resubmit it to the App Store.
Love,
Apple

dewme said:
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Apple’s insistence that they will not merge the two platforms is based on an assumption that iPad and Mac each target a sufficient number of unique applications and use cases that the other platform does not adequately satisfy. Moving to a unified platform would mean somebody’s losing something important to their cause. 

And yet Apple has had Project Catalyst since 2019: https://developer.apple.com/mac-catalyst/

The idea is to allow developers to use the iPad application source code to make (possibly) more robust versions run on a Mac. So, why not the other way around? If the idea is to allow developers to reach the widest possible audience of users in the Apple ecosystem, it seems logical to target the entire ecosystem, no?

The "Apple Way" isn't to have multi OS devices. It's, "It just works".

22july2013 said:

dotcomcto said:

I really want to hear Apple announce that M1 apps from the Mac App Store will be able to run directly on the M1 iPad Pro.

Even if that happened, which is unlikely, it would still require recompiling. Because apps for different OS's (macOS and iPadOS) use different APIs/kits. The alternative is for Apple to make both OSs support the same APIs, and Apple has had full screen slides saying: NO.

Are you asking for macOS and iPadOS to merge? If not, then recompiling is required.

For a short while, there was the ability to sideload iOS apps on M1 Macs - which Apple subsequently shut down. That said, Apple does have Project Catalyst: https://developer.apple.com/mac-catalyst/

I do not see a reason why Apple wouldn't ultimately want that to work in both directions. It would be a win-win for Apple, as well as developers. 

I really want to hear Apple announce that M1 apps from the Mac App Store will be able to run directly on the M1 iPad Pro. I just don't get the purpose of a 16 GB RAM/1 or 2 TB M1 iPad Pro unless the device will be able to run Mac apps (vs 8 GB RAM/256 or 512 GB models). I suppose I get it for high end video editing, but other than that, I don't get its purpose otherwise.

Just the information that I was looking for, so thanks for posting this timely article. I'm disappointed that Apple didn't see fit to bump up the iPad Pro specs. That device should clearly be the high end device, and it's only marginally so with the iPad Air release. It's certainly not worth the extra $200, at least for my personal needs.