Outside of software development, the real problem with iPadOS isn't just that it's not as capable as macOS (though that is a problem). It's that it's badly impl

Outside of software development, the real problem with iPadOS isn't just that it's not as capable as macOS (though that is a problem). It's that it's badly implemented. All of the features they added to justify the "iPadOS" rebrand[0] have significant bugs or UI issues that Apple hasn't really stopped to fix. Things like: * The file picker arbitrarily[1] locking you out of picking whole folders on third-party file providers (e.g. Dropbox) * Mouse support occasionally bugging out and just not working, or snapping to widgets nowhere near your mouse cursor, or not letting you click the maximize widget on PiP videos * SMB shares on the Files app occasionally taking down the daemon responsible for managing them and, in turn, freezing every app that tries to open a file picker until you restart your iPad Missing features, software lockouts, and stereotypical Apple fussiness over not giving you things you want but won't enjoy using are one thing. I'd totally love to see touch-friendly versions of all the other things Macs can do. But that's a lower priority than just making iPadOS a functioning piece of software again. The iPad feels like an Apple vanity project that just so happened to get pushed into production... because it is. Jobs had some engineers make him a tablet specifically so he could spite a friend of his at Microsoft that was bullish on Windows XP tablets. All of Apple's idiosyncracies regarding mouse and touch input, and them refusing to replace iPadOS with an operating system that actually works is downstream of Jobs' insistence that iPad software not require a stylus to operate. The problem is that iPad doesn't actually pay the bills at Apple, so none of the bugs in iPadOS actually get fixed, and it mostly gets hand-me-down features from iOS. [0] Yes, I meant rebrand. iOS and iPadOS are the same thing internally - hell the SDKs still call it iPhoneOS. If you jailbreak an iPhone you can enable Stage Manager and it Just Works. [1] Ok, this might not be 100% Apple's fault, since I have seen file providers that do let you pick folders, but the whole point of this being locked down is so that Apple can put a gun to developers heads' and force them to do things The Apple Way.