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wietheryesterday at 7:22 PM1 replyview on HN

Currently, someone interested in an iPad and needing the power of a MB, will have to buy both.

If they stopped restricting the iPad, those people would only have to buy an iPad.

And as someone without a single interest in an iPad, I would worry that removing the iPad limitations would increase its market-share and lead to Apple reducing even more their interest in the MB, which would be terrible news to me.


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commakozziyesterday at 7:29 PM

I used to understand/agree with this point, but over the past few years i've transitioned to my ipad pro for mobile usage and it has become my daily driver for mobile computing. When i need macos for anything, i typically will use Jump to connect and do something real quick, but that's rare. I'm starting to not understand why i wouldn't just want an ipad pro running a touch friendly (and i mean it would have to be VERY touch friendly) version of macos. again, i would have normally agreed with you, but that line is starting to blur for me...