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I'd expect that any such machine would be released as an extended iPad line, with OS X running a compat layer for iOS apps. Apps could theoretically ship as fa

I'd expect that any such machine would be released as an extended iPad line, with OS X running a compat layer for iOS apps. Apps could theoretically ship as fat binaries (/again/) to work on both, but that much seems like quite a jump --- people can buy laptops now, with great battery life. It's the simplicity of iOS that drives its appeal.

United857 15y ago
In fact, the iOS Simulator used by developers today is pretty much just that, with the iOS app itself + the Cocoa Touch frameworks running within a OS X process. The only difference is that simulator app builds are specially compiled for X86 instead of ARM (thus, it's not a "emulator" in the strictest sense of the word). With ARM, it'd be conceivably possible for the same iOS binary to run on both the device and the desktop simulator.