It seems to be going the other way actually. MacOS Big Sur looks like iPadOS with a menu bar tacked on.
It’s going both ways - iPadOS now has drop down menus at the top, etc.
What they did to Finder is just...unacceptable.
Hoping there's a way to switch to a more compact view, but as shown in the keynote it looks terrible. What is with the insistence on wasting space in modern operating systems? Were people getting too productive with new, large displays?
I highly recommend Path Finder as a replacement anyway
Already Apple is making it a headache to run non-signed apps on the Mac. I don't think they're going to slow down the "convergence" of iOS and MacOS at this point.
Also interesting that the dev kits use the same chip as the latest iPad Pros (A12Z). I’d love to see the two OSes merge to some extent because I love writing on the tablet but find iPadOS not the best for general dev work.
Oh, 1,000%. Even basic tasks like working on a file, then pasting said file to a cloud storage app and then to an email/slack channel take an order of magnitude longer than it would on a computer. Long way to go before the iPad becomes a true Pro machine, but for some fields, it's basically there. Still, such simple quality of life improves that are mainstay/muscle memory on computers essentially take time and animations and taps to execute.
yeah all the UI updates this year seem to be on the theme of stitching up the gaps between macOS and iPadOS.
I'm guessing that when the "two year" transition to all-ARM arch on the mac is complete, they'll merge them.