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Comment by medhir | Hacker News Reader

Or they could… you know finally put macOS on the iPad

The problem is when they tried to make iPad apps available on macOS by default, developers revolted and made it an opt-in. Now Apple has to weigh losing a large amount of their app catalog and cannibalize MacBook sales. It's hardly an obvious win for anyone. Allowing dual boot with the caveat that macOS will inexplicably be missing the iPad apps the user was previously using won't really jive well either.

For the people that want to run real applications, not having TikTok isn’t going to matter.

  > developers revolted and made it an opt-in

if they really wanted to, they could just remove the option and let the apps run on any platform... it might make some devs upset but (n=1) this dev is ok with it

But that would mean *shudder* Apple using their control of the App Store for consumer good instead of corporate greed.

If you want a device that runs macOS, Apple makes plenty of them, at all kinds of price points.

Which one of them has a touch screen?

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