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Give it like, five more years.

Big Sur already takes a lot of design cues from iOS - they're prepping the merge. They're just making sure the frog doesn't realize the pot is starting to boil.

Agreed. They can already support mice, why can't I just use it as a computer when I want!

I would've thought this was a really silly notion until now, when they're not just running on similar chips but on the same chip.

Agreed. They can do it nicely, too, by extending the "Handoff" concept to further replicate application state between macOS and iPad OS apps.

It would probably be an opt-in thing for apps, but even without any fancy state replication it'd be just fine.

If Apple allowed macOS on the iPad, I wonder if they’d allow Rosetta?

I do not doubt that this may become a thing in the future

I actually do doubt it. They want to sell multiple devices, and they have this vague notion of "minimalism" that still dictates design. The idea of running two operating systems on the same device probably gives someone at Apple a stomach flu. They want to merge the two. But I don't. I want the best of both worlds which means differentiation and just - more -.