In apple's ecosystem, iPadOS is one of the largest products in the slot. The configuration of the iPad is getting more and more Pro, but the iPad system is a bit out of rhythm.
How to relieve worries? The vast number of digital enthusiasts have a ready-made idea: use macOS. After all, iPad Pro uses the same M1 processor as mac, even if macOS is not pre-installed, adding Boot Camp support, giving users the opportunity to install manually, is it reasonable?
Apple's official attitude towards this is clear. Scott Broderick of iPad Product Marketing said iPad and Mac are two distinct platforms that are different and distinct, now and in the future.
Could apple have an iron heart to insulate iPad and macOS?
MacOS for iPad has a play?
Patently Apple found that although Apple said that it would not do macOS iPad, it was quietly developing behind its back and applied for a patent.
The main body of the patent is a tablet similar to iPad, which can be transformed into a MacBook with a keyboard base, and can also be transformed into a variety of forms, such as tent mode and laptop mode, which is quite a "tribute" to Microsoft Surface Book.
The essence of this iPad is that it's powered by macOS, not iPadOS. Get rid of the slot point of the system ecology, iPad's powerful hardware performance, finally have a place to play?
Not only that, Apple also equipped it with a magnetic keyboard hinge to adsorb the Apple Pencil, as well as a series of accessories such as cameras, projectors, microphones, etc., to meet various professional needs, which is called a Pro to the end.
Apple also filed a patent earlier called "highly modular computing and input devices", showing a full-touch screen Mac, a dual-screen MacBook in various forms, and a record player - on a rainy day, macBook and vinyl are more compatible.
Escorted by a number of patents, the iPad Pro equipped with macOS is ready for everything, only owes the East Wind. When it will come, whether it will come, I am afraid that only time can give us the answer. But before we do that, let's take a look at a macOS version of iPad story.
Unloved Mac version of "iPad Pro"
But the Mac version of iPad isn't nothing. It was born earlier than the iPad, but the name is not iPad, nor is it officially produced by Apple.
This "Mac iPad" is called Modbook, and as its name suggests, it is a magical version of the MacBook. Modbook debuted at Macworld in 2007 by Axiontron. Axiontron is an obscure company that didn't have a simple beginning, with founder Andreas Haas being an executive on Apple's MessagePad project, the predecessor of the iPad.
The first generation of Modbooks
The first generation of Modbook was rather rudimentary, almost a MacBook with a keyboard cut out and a touchscreen modified. Running macOS X desktop system, Modbook features an LCD screen with greater viewing angles and higher contrast, and a chemically enhanced cover to improve durability. The Modbook also comes with an "Apple Pencile" that supports 512 levels of pressure sensitivity, programmable side keys, and an eraser.
Modbook shone brightly at that Macworld, and Apple co-founder Wozniak praised it, even though the real protagonists of the conference were Jobs and the first-generation iPhone. Apple's internal attitude towards modbook is also very friendly, and the legal department has never bothered with this magic modified macbook.
Woz signed the Modbook
In June 2012, the second generation of Modbooks was born, called Modbook Pro, powered by macOS X 10.8, optional OS X 10.9 and 10.10, and even macOS and Windows 7 dual systems.
At this time, the iPad has been around for two years, and the Modbook Pro is designed to absorb the style of a new era tablet, equipped with a 13.3-inch touch screen, similar to the MacBook Pro's 13-inch configuration, and equipped with a dual-core i7 mobile processor, 16GB of memory, 1TB of mechanical hard disk or 960GB of SSD.
The configuration of macBook Pro, the figure of iPad Pro, maybe it is the iPad Pro in everyone's mind?
However, the Modbook Pro didn't become an iPad Pro after all — it was too expensive. The Modbook Pro sells for up to $2,000 and is more expensive than the MacBook Pro. The Modbook Pro is said to have ended up with fewer than 1,000 units. Modbook Pro's successor, Modbook Pro X, was released in 2014 as a large tablet adapted from the 15-inch MacBook Pro and also features a TouchBar. Its fate was even more tragic, and although it completed its crowdfunding goals, it was never officially launched.
Modbook Pro prototype (2009)
In addition, the idea of Modbook Pro is also too advanced, when it was released, the iPad Pro had not yet been launched, and it was only a few people's imagination to complete the work of the traditional PC with the body of a tablet.
The second year after the Modbook Pro X came out, Apple officially released the original iPad Pro, equipped with a 12.9-inch large screen, A9X processor, iOS 9.1 system, priced at $799. The "large iPhone" eventually became the iPad Pro recognized by the market.
epilogue
Apply multi-window, keyboard and mouse interaction, there is no doubt that if iPad can use macOS, it will be a killer - unfortunately can not be changed. iPads are touch-first, Macs are mouse- and keyboard-centric, and their apps are optimized for their own form.
After more than a decade of development, the iPad is still the "third type of device" that Jobs identified: it is neither a mobile phone nor a laptop, and it is better than a laptop or smartphone when it completes some tasks such as browsing the web, browsing pictures and watching videos, otherwise there is no reason to exist. Imagine giving today's iPad macOS, can it accomplish these tasks better than iPadOS?
Compared to the system, what the iPad Pro really lacks is the killer software on macOS. If the iPad can also have software like Xcode and Final Cut Pro, fully releasing the hardware performance of the iPad, the evaluation of the "chicken ribs" of iPadOS is estimated to be much less. Apple has two major compromises at this stage, one is to use the iPad as the Sidecar function of the Mac's second display, and the other is the Universal Control that allows tasks to flow freely between the iPad and the Mac.
Two devices to complete the work, to one device perfectly packaged, perhaps this is iPadOS should not bear the weight of it.
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