| >Fairly confident the CPU has never been the reason you can't install whatever you want on an iOS/iPadOS device. Also not the reason you can't install macOS on it either. Are you lost? Did you reply to the wrong comment? My comment says nothing about CPU or anything about hardware, at all. The thread above my comment is talking about a "MacPad" which means running MacOS on Apple tablets and phones. Of course Apple prevents this even though it's entirely possible to do it, because Apple is going to do Apple things. >In all seriousness though, I have an iPad Pro and a MacBook (as a lot of people here do I'm sure) Reality distortion field in effect? > and it would make a poor laptop. Uh... all you would need to do is add a keyboard and mouse and it's a laptop, and all of that is already possible to do and has been possible for a very long time. >(actually I'd rather just have the MacBook as the iPad sits largely idle, as I'm also sure a lot of people's do). You seem to be sure about a lot of things. |
If you have a look around on the interwebs there are longstanding criticisms of how overpowered the iPad is relative to what you're actually empowered to do with it, and by extension the question of who is it supposed to be for. Like you said, Apple doing Apple.
I'm sure a lot of them sit idle because a constant complaint people have (again all over the interwebs) with them is that they aren't good at much besides media consumption, and are rarely people's first choice for that due to convenience.
Whatever though? It hardly matters. Enjoy your iPad I guess(?)