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by jppope 502 days ago
this is part of a very obvious change they could make to separate the device from the monitor/view capabilities, and have it connect to other apple products and communicate. The reality is that its not an easy thing to do and they would have to create something very new to be able to do it. Don't hold your breath. They actually decreased OS capabilities of the device when they went to mobile intentionally and they have no incentive to increase capabilities.

Apple has come a long way from people waiting outside the stores for products of the future to charging $200 more every release for an extra 2 mega pixel on the camera. They are over due for some disruption. Hopefully, someone sees the opportunity.
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walterbell 502 days ago
> not an easy thing .. create something very new

Some building blocks exist:

  - earlier iPadOS shipped with a hypervisor
  - M3 supports nested virtualization
  - Apple recently allowed UTM to (slowly) run Win/Linux VMs on iOS
  - VM streaming protocols are widely used on Windows and Linux
Google Pixel, Qualcomm Oryon or Nvidia Arm PCs with mainline Linux support would bring needed competition.
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