And this is why I'll be buying a MacBook Air over an iPad Pro. I'm not even going to complain - it is what it is and this article simply illustrates some important differences between the two platforms. I'm not even going to say iOS is bad - I love my iPhone and my wife absolutely loves her iPad Pro.

Apple has targeted iPadOS to casual computer users who mainly consume content and require light content generation and editing capabilities, and as it turns out there's a HUGE market for that. But it's not for me. I'm a developer by profession and my hobbies are music and photography. All of these push the limits of what iPadOS is capable of delivering - but MacOS delivers with aplomb.

And now thanks to Catalyst if there's some must-have iPadOS app I want to run then I can run it. The MacBook Air may be the most versatile machine Apple has ever made for users like me.