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Here's to hoping for an M1 boot loader exploit so we can straight up run macOS on the iPad.

I'm hoping Apple enables dual booting officially. I don't see any reason other than "We want to price segment iPad Pros and Macbooks"

The 13" iPad Pro costs more than the 13" Macbook air anyway.

More than price segment, they want you to have both devices.

I have a feeling they won't do this because they want developers to make ipad native apps designed for the smaller screen sizes and touch. Allowing dual boot would have users move off ipados rather than apps move over to iPadOS.

I actually thing iPadOS is pretty great as it is and its simply a lack of apps as well as too restrictive app store ToS that's in the way

> I have a feeling they won't do this because they want developers to make ipad native apps designed for the smaller screen sizes and touch.

This is a part that I don't understand. It is a size and quality of panel that is fine for pro-level (maybe not Professional™ level) work. I would buy an iPad Pro in a hot minute if it was possible to hook my mouse and keyboard up and use the same Photoshop etc that I'm used to using on my Mac.

PS I'm not against touch apps, but not every app needs touch in my opinion. I'd like to have both.

I totally get this but I feel that the inability to directly run macos apps has opened the door for a lot of new apps in established industries which have ipad focused UIs which would have never got off the ground otherwise. My favorite example is Procreate. The UI blows the desktop software away with how minimal it is while still retaining all the functionality I need. Photoshop and other software have multiple layers of toolbars and sidebars which hog the screen while procreate leaves almost everything free for the canvas.

If you could just run real photoshop right away I think we may have never got Procreate.

Why? I could see wanting some macOS apps to work on iOS, that makes sense to me.

But with sidecar you can get a pretty good idea of macOS on iPad. And it’s not great. At least as-is it’s not great.

> Why?

Also:

- Fewer restrictions, e.g. running apps not from the App Store, transferring media files, and more.

- Some people might prefer macOS abstractions; resizable windows, desktop, trash, etc.

This. I loved the first Microsoft surface, it was exactly what I wanted. A wicked small portable that ran a full OS that could, among other things, run PERL scripts for me.

I still don’t think I can do that with iOS, and the 12” MacBook is gone. Sign me up for an 11.7” running full MacOS

The perfect setup would be an M1 iPad that runs something iOS-like when it is in tablet mode and then switches to macOS when in laptop mode, keeping the apps running. At least, one can dream…

Technically we could duct tape an iPad to the back of a Macbook Air?.. Sure, the CPUs are needlessly duplicated and so is the price but the UX and the form factor seem close? Obviously tongue in cheek, but also a fun thought experiment.

I want a Microsoft Surface with an M1 chip.

iPad Pro M1 with Linux would be my dream device.

On the way, some former M1 team founders are at Qualcomm (via Nuvia acquisition) building a new Arm SoC for PC OEMs.

If Apple squanders their 2021 window for usable-walled-garden-with-sandboxes, they will lose (again) to less-usable-but-more-open EBBR platforms with dynamic boot, security and performance policy.

Fun?

i was really hoping that'd be in the cards for this wwdc announcement. It'd easily become my main machine overnight.

This is the way

Does MacOS has built-in touchscreen support?

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/46917/does-the-mac...

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