markv, 16 days ago

@davemark @joannastern My guess: the first isn't going to happen because it would essentially allow sideloading on iPad and risk undercutting the app store revenue model.

The second isn't going to happen because it would take tremendous resources and those are all dedicated to visionOS at this point.

My "hail mary" hope is that investments on visionOS might trickle down into iPadOS. After all, a Vision Pro and an iPad Pro are both pretty expensive pro-oriented devices 🤷‍♂️

octothorpe, 16 days ago

@davemark @joannastern i mean, we’ll all be able to run macos on big boy versions of the M4 in like, 4 months.

davemark, 16 days ago

@octothorpe @joannastern What makes you say that?

octothorpe, 16 days ago

@davemark @joannastern because that’s how it has worked. First we get the weak chips for the iPad (pro), then we get pro/max/ultra in the macos devices. You’ve been here before.

davemark, 16 days ago

@octothorpe Ah, you were referring to new Macs. I thought you were suggesting that Apple would release macOS for iPad at some point.