[idle_zealot]

The infuriating thing is that a huge number of those limitations exist as a few bytes that Apple does not let you flip, somewhere in the OS's code or configuration.

It would be unreasonable to buy, say, a flip phone in 2007 and complain that it can't replace a graphics workstation. It didn't have the hardware for that workload. Today, it's the artificial nature of the limitations that make the device akin to a cage.

[threeseed]

Yes because flipping those bits would make the iPad a Mac.

And the whole point of an iPad is that you have a simple and consistent experience.

[stickmunch]

I don't recall which WWDC it was.. They had a slide with the largest text they ever used.

The question was "will ipadOS and macOS merge?

"NO"

[stickmunch]

Found it.

it was iOS and macOS but still...

https://youtu.be/DOYikXbC6Fs

[Dylan16807]

For a phone, you really do want a different interface. (unless you're tethering it) That's much more justifiable.

[armada651]

Because that would either mean locking down MacOS or opening up iOS. Apple would love to lock down MacOS, but it'd be incredibly bad press to admit to that publicly.

[jvan]

>a simple and consistent experience

Has that not been Apple's entire marketing thrust since 1984?

[idle_zealot]

It's fine that Apple wants to ship with those bits unflipped. What's unreasonable is that Apple stops you from flipping them.