Steve Troughton-SmithThe real tragedy of iPad is the vast gulf between how much potential it had as a platform, and Apple's disinterest in letting it live up to that. It is easy to imagine an alternate universe where iPad grew up to outright replace desktop computing, in all shapes and sizes, running powerful, complex software good enough to supplant everything we used a Mac for. A modern do-over of the entire personal computing industry. Nobody looks at iPhone and thinks 'oh this could be so much more’, but iPad?
It’s also hard to talk about iPadOS today and not reference visionOS, because the two platforms are inextricably linked. They run effectively the same software, on top of the same OS — much more so than ‘iPhone OS' was ever 'Mac OS X’. These platforms are going to grow together, are going to share the best and the worst aspects of each other. They're the same. With Apple talking about visionOS as the future of computing, it's difficult not to be reminded about similar empty promises for iPad
Eric Morgan@stroughtonsmith empty? All I use and own is a 12.9” iPad Pro.