[jakobegger]

If those users are so unimportant, why did Apple bother to introduce the Hypervisor framework on macOS? If there's a big, important market for virtualisation on macOS, surely it would be worthwhile to also address that market on iPadOS? Especially since Apple is trying hard to convince all kinds of professional users to adopt the iPad.

[yoz-y]

I think Apple has a different vision for needs of people who use Macs and iPads for work.

For example the new Sidecar feature (use iPad as a screen) supports the pencil but not touch. Apple believes that touch on macOS interface is not a good experience. I suppose that they feel that text entry and chaining CLI tools on iPad is not one either.

[saagarjha]

Apple has been trying to pull people away from writing kernel extensions for a while, so I don't see why the introduction of Hypervisor.framework (and with it, another user-space way to do something which previously required working in the kernel) is noteworthy as anything other than this.

[macintux]

I said the lost revenue if the feature were offered wasn’t important. I didn’t say anything about the value of the users.