It wouldn't make sense for them to do otherwise. The Mac has its market and a large proportion of that market demands those abilities. Why turn the Mac into iPa

It wouldn't make sense for them to do otherwise. The Mac has its market and a large proportion of that market demands those abilities. Why turn the Mac into iPadOS when they have iPadOS already? What they are accomplishing by going to their own silicon is eliminating the need to maintain the Mac as a completely different hardware and driver line. Now the Mac is just a bigger higher specced clamshell iPad with MacOS, and MacOS is the same kernel and mostly the same drivers as iPadOS and iOS but different security policies and a somewhat different user space. It's sort of like a different Linux distribution with a different window manager and different defaults. I think this will make the Mac better because now it can benefit from all the product dev and R&D being done for iDevices, and vice versa. All those neat features in the high end iPad can now be considered for the Mac. It would not shock me if they someday allowed the Mac to run iPadOS either if the user so chooses, or vice versa, via some reinstall process.