[radley]

I feel like this is more of a calculated step towards eliminating macOS, because iPadOS can do "everything" too.

I expect it will happen within a few years after Xcode for iPad is released. MacOS is simply too open for Apple's business goals.

[SirMaster]

Do you really think that Apple would alienate the big creative industries like Hollywood movie studios who use macOS?

Or do you really think that all their apps and toolsets will run on whatever you are saying is the future of macOS.

[WorldPeas]

Those are more likely to continue working as they mostly work within the lines defined by the apple developer spec. The most likely workflows to break are those of programmers, as they require frequent execution of untrusted binaries and access to the system directories in some cases

[radley]

I think macOS will go the way of the Mac Pro. It won't be cut off, it will simply atrophy over time.

As more MBP fundamentals are ported to iPad Pro, that will naturally convert more Mac users to iPads, especially the iPhone generation.

[cyberax]

> Do you really think that Apple would alienate the big creative industries like Hollywood movie studios who use macOS?

"We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company" skit perfectly applies to Apple these days ( https://snltranscripts.jt.org/76/76aphonecompany.phtml ).

A middle manager from Apple will easily toss all of Hollywood under the bus if it gets them a checkbox "shipped new toggle switch experience" and a promotion. And the upper management at Apple long since stopped caring about that.

[overfeed]

> Do you really think that Apple would alienate the big creative industries like Hollywood movie studios who use macOS?

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Final Cut Pro X? I thought not. It's not a story Apple fanboys would tell you...