iPad's long device lifetime and ancestral software are visible in iPad global sales (2012-2023), including 12 quarters of declining sales (2014-2018), https://www.statista.com/statistics/299632/tablet-shipments-.... It's unsurprising that Apple ecosystem homes own at least one iPad.
> If iPad owners get access to macOS thrown in for free, then Mac sales will undoubtedly take a major hit.
VMs on iPad would likely be limited to high RAM (16GB) devices with 1TB storage on ~$2K iPad Pro. What percentage of global iPad sales are 1TB iPad Pros? If entry level iPads cannot run VMs due to lack of RAM and silicon support for nested virtualization, they can't "compete" with Macbooks.
Let's remember that iOS was derived from macOS and some iOS features (e.g. APFS) have been added to macOS, along with the ability to run iOS apps on macOS. Apple could create yet another OS subset (cOS) for headless/CLI server apps running in VMs on macOS and iOS, without iOS restrictions. This would allow local development on high-end iPad Pros.
> If iPad owners get access to macOS thrown in for free, then Mac sales will undoubtedly take a major hit.
In 2022, iPad and iPad Mini were the #1 and #2 top-selling Apple tablets, followed by iPad Pro and iPad Air, https://x.com/fjeronimo/status/1531205164278890496
VMs on iPad would likely be limited to high RAM (16GB) devices with 1TB storage on ~$2K iPad Pro. What percentage of global iPad sales are 1TB iPad Pros? If entry level iPads cannot run VMs due to lack of RAM and silicon support for nested virtualization, they can't "compete" with Macbooks.
Let's remember that iOS was derived from macOS and some iOS features (e.g. APFS) have been added to macOS, along with the ability to run iOS apps on macOS. Apple could create yet another OS subset (cOS) for headless/CLI server apps running in VMs on macOS and iOS, without iOS restrictions. This would allow local development on high-end iPad Pros.
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