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If anything, in the future I see iOS (or iPadOS) getting more and more 'MacOS-ified' and not the other way round. As the HW inside iPads get more and more power
by Audiophilip 7y ago
If anything, in the future I see iOS (or iPadOS) getting more and more 'MacOS-ified' and not the other way round. As the HW inside iPads get more and more powerful, I could imagine Apple eventually porting MacOS to iPads (and therefore to ARM); not to replace the Intel-based Macs with ARM-powered ones, but to empower iPad users with a much more productive OS. Sure, iPad users wouldn't be able to run x86 binaries, but with Apple incentivizing developers to build x86+ARM fat binaries, the software library available for 'MacOS iPad' users would keep growing over time.
- yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago> I could imagine Apple eventually porting MacOS to iPads (and therefore to ARM) There's not much to port. The underlying Darwin operating system is shared by all Apple products (AFAIK, excepting Airports for some weird reason). They would have to do a recompile and maybe make sure that nobody accidentally put architecture specific bugs into the finder or something stupid, but the grand difference between Apple's different operating systems is which graphical interface they put on and some amount of user space tooling. And honestly, I would be absolutely shocked if Apple doesn't have internal builds of the desktop-oriented "Mac OS" for ARM, probably as part of the usual CI pipeline.