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Title: Apple Software Chief Rejects macOS on iPad

Link: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/06/19/084...

Apple software chief Craig Federighi has ruled out bringing macOS to the
iPad, amusingly using a kitchen utensil analogy to explain the company's
design philosophy. "We don't want to create a boat car or, you know, a
spork," Federighi said in an interview. "Someone said, 'If a spoon's great, a
fork's great, then let's combine them into a single utensil, right?' It turns
out it's not a good spoon and it's not a good fork. It's a bad idea. And so
we don't want to build sporks." The new version of iPadOS, which will ship to
consumers later this year, features dynamically resizable windows that users
can drag by their corners and a menu bar that is accessible through swipe
gestures or cursor movement. Some observers might consider the iPad Pro
itself a "convertible" product that blurs the line between tablet and laptop,
he said. However, the Mac and iPad serve distinct purposes, he asserted. "The
Mac lets the iPad be iPad," he said adding that Apple's objective "has not
been to have iPad completely displace those places where the Mac is the right
tool for the job." Rather than full convergence, Federighi said the iPad "can
be inspired by elements of the Mac" while remaining a separate platform. "I
think the Mac can be inspired by elements of iPad, and I think that that's
happened a great deal."

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