On the iPad-as-Laptop-Replacement Trope

Matthew Panzarino, via Michael Tsai:

Apple needs to unleash itself from the shackles of a unified iOS. They don’t have to feel exactly the same now, because the user base is not an infantile one. They’ve been weaned on it — now give them solid food.

The iPad is nanometers away from replacing laptops for so many users. I could probably walk away from a computer myself save for specific work tasks.

That’s not the whole story, though; I think for so many Mac power users, the notion of something that approximates or integrates macOS (OS X, in the old days) in a tablet form would have been a welcome advance in 2010, and would be now. Mac users love macOS. We’d love to use it on a tablet, too.

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