Now with keyboards as powerful as those on MacBook Pros, iPads are among the best in terms of mobile technology for professionals. But they are perhaps missing a key advantage: being able to do without the App Store and behave like real computers, which is currently not possible with the limitations imposed byiPadOS.
This was without counting on recent information shared by the often well-informed Majin Bu account on Twitter. According to the specialist, Apple is indeed testing a lighter version of macOS on the newiPad Pro M2. A statement that clearly clashes withrecent statements from the Apple firm, ensuring that it does not seriously consider such a hypothesis…
Best, all the same
Despite everything, Majin Bu correctly assumes that it will be necessary to drastically optimize the content of macOS to make the software compatible without a hitch with iPads. Let's not forget that tablets aretactile, which requires reviewing all the code to make it controllable according to the user's digital movements. The Retina screen is what consumes the most on this type of consumer device.
It also seems unlikely that Cupertino will decide to open the iPad tounknown sources(understand: platforms unavailable on the App Store). In any case, this is what our source of the day suggests, recalling the words of Tim Cook and his closest executives aboutthe sensitive issue of sideloading.
Only for new models!
Majin Bu adds to this thatthe iPad Pro M1 would not be there. However, they are already real racing beasts, with a processor more efficient than Intel's chips in certain cases. If this is true, it would not be the first time that the publisher has behaved in this way. We particularly remember the case of Stage Manager, the new window management functionality that arrived with iPadOS 16 and which does not run without an Apple silicon chip under the hood…
