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by thih9 1029 days ago
I don't get why this is still impossible in 2023, with M1 in both macbooks and ipads.

I'm sure at some point someone at apple has built a prototype and did extensive testing, I'd love to know why was that shut down. And whether it was a business related issue, or a tech/UX related issue.
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Gigachad 1029 days ago
My guess is that Apple wants companies to reinvent their programs to work well on a touchscreen, which has largely been happening. If you could just drop macos on the ipad, we wouldn't have things like Procreate. You'd just get told to install desktop photoshop and connect a mouse and keyboard.
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thih9 1028 days ago
This seems plausible to me as one of the reasons. Especially in the context of how windows devices favored mixing desktop and touch concepts.
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