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Apple is already in [casual] gaming, they have Apple Arcade and hundreds of high quality games on app store. They also have "console" called Apple TV. Evey Apple store sells Playstation controllers.

Apple still considers Macbooks as trucks: they are for developers and professionals, not gamers or everyday users. They want non-developers to buy iPad and that is why there is no sub-$1000 MacBook.

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Apple still considers Macbooks as trucks: they are for developers and professionals, not gamers or everyday users. They want non-developers to buy iPad and that is why there is no sub-$1000 MacBook.

Well, it's a little more complicated. The M1 MacBook Air now sells at $999; $899 for education. And you can drop more than $1000 on an iPad Pro with an M1 processor.

And you can run Swift Playgrounds on an iPad and submit an app to the App Store: https://9to5mac.com/2022/01/05/this-to-do-list-app-is-the-fi....

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