At this point it's the same OS with different UI shells, so they can do better than dual boot: instantly switch to the full macOS UI when a Magic Keyboard is connected, and even preserve the state of any running apps.
Buying one of each platform is a bug, not a feature. The goal is to maximize customer LTV. This hypothetical product could be strictly superior to _and_ more expensive than separate purchases of a MacBook and iPad.
I wouldn't expect to see this on the Air or even Pro models as standard; it makes sense as an expensive upgrade akin to the M1 Max.
Highly capable touch-screen sensor-rich portables are carving out their own niche and that's been a great opportunity for shaking up some of the core ideas in system architecture and OS designs. This applies across all vendors for products in that class.
Not only would porting macOS to iPad disturb Apple's business proposition of "why not buy both?" but it would let up on the pressure that makes iPadOS itself evolve and solve problems in its own way.
I'd say just be patient and tablets will become what you want. The road to get there is a bit longer than "just port over the old stuff!" but that long road will probably keep surfacing exciting new innovations and paradigm-changes along the way.
I would rather iPadOS continue its journey to achieve parity with a "fullOS". iPadOS has a lot of new concepts about how we should be computing, and it would be a shame to throw it away for what we already have.
If dual boot ever becomes a thing, all momentum on improving iPadOS would probably just stop as "if you need PC-level features just use macOS".
I don’t think they’ll put macOS on an iPad either, but they’ve been positioning the iPad as a computer for a long time. Even in marketing language at times.
I'm seeing this pattern play out in a few places in the late spring. A mostly online event with a fairly small-scale, maybe invite-only, in-person component.
A lot of companies have found that, while online participation is mostly watching video, far more can participate to at least that degree than ever could when a lot of these expensive, popular events were in-person only--with maybe a streaming keynote.
So the company who just can't innovate without forcing 165,000 employees back to office in April can't figure out how to run an in person event in June
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They did it with the iPod to iPhone, for a famous example.
Merging 2 usages into a single experience = you flop like Win8/Win11/Gnome/Unity8
On other hand Android/ChromeOS and macOS/iOS/iPadOS is a big winner
I wouldn't expect to see this on the Air or even Pro models as standard; it makes sense as an expensive upgrade akin to the M1 Max.
Not only would porting macOS to iPad disturb Apple's business proposition of "why not buy both?" but it would let up on the pressure that makes iPadOS itself evolve and solve problems in its own way.
I'd say just be patient and tablets will become what you want. The road to get there is a bit longer than "just port over the old stuff!" but that long road will probably keep surfacing exciting new innovations and paradigm-changes along the way.
If dual boot ever becomes a thing, all momentum on improving iPadOS would probably just stop as "if you need PC-level features just use macOS".
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Or maybe they’re just having a thing at their home and if you’re international and want to come and can afford it then do so.