If Apple's afraid of eating into Mac sales by putting macOS on iPad, just put the Hypervisor and Virtualization frameworks on iPadOS so third parties like Parallels can virtualize Windows 11 or Linux instead. Windows, at least, is much better suited for a touchscreen than macOS is. Let the developer/userbase validate the concept if you won’t — is a virtual desktop good or bad for the iPad platform?
@stroughtonsmith Government legislation may need to force Apple’s hand on making iPad Pro support VMs if Apple is unwilling to allow it. This would bring more competition to the platform. I suspect a major reason Apple still hasn’t allowed VMs is that doing so could threaten to reduce Apple’s services profits.
@stroughtonsmith Also... surely allowing VMs on iPadOS is way for the few that need it to run more powerful tools and the 95% who are happy with a 'big iPhone' OS can carry on blissfully unaware and not subject to yet another rework of multi-tasking etc
@stroughtonsmith this would SO GOOD and allow me to switch to the iPad full time. Apple would still get my share of hardware cash as I’d willing splash out for a high end iPad Pro if I could truly use it for development.
@stroughtonsmith the one thing keeping me from being able to do all my work (as opposed to stuff like running a Plex server or Amiga emulation) is that desktop Word has necessary features for legal briefs and iPad / web Word don’t. Windows ARM in a VM would be fine. Like dropping down to the terminal to run a script
@stroughtonsmith ipads are fully capable of running VMs like UTM shows. But apple is never going to officially allow that, they wanna keep their appstore monopoly
@stroughtonsmith the real problem is Apple wants all the devices they sell except the Mac (and that’s only because they realistically can’t change that) to only have the App Store as a way to get apps. That’s the reason why they don’t want us to be able to use MacOS or any other OS on the iPad.
@stroughtonsmith I think the issue is that if that happens, Apple’s services revenue would (potentially) decline because virtualized apps are not using the App Store (30% cut). Modern Apple would never 😐
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