19th Try a Charm for iPadOS?
This time our old friend Mark Gurman is making the prediction - iPadOS 19, although NOT macOS, according to Gurman:
"According to Mark Gurman in the Power On newsletter, Apple’s iPadOS 19 will “focus on productivity, multitasking and app window management — with an eye on the device operating more like a Mac.” It won’t quite be macOS for iPad, but Gurman notes that “the changes will likely go far enough” to please those users who are looking to get more out of the tablet’s software."
I bought my M1 iPad Pro, Pen 2, and Magic Keyboard just for this, yet year after year, disappointment after disappointment. However, just like every other rumor, this gets my heartbeat up and I keep thinking "maybe this time" especially if it would let a M4 iPad Air match most of the features of the m4 MacBook Air.
That's a good point, but iPadOS also needs to run real software across the board - Word, Excel, Powerpointless, Adobe Acrobat Pro, full desktop Safari, etc. No matter how much Apple and Microsoft want you to believe the iPadOS versions are as good, that is a flat out lie. In fact, the macOS version of Office 365 applications lack featurees (or they are so different they ae unuseful).
AND THAT may be the ultimate roadblock.
However, if there is any truth the continuing rumor of an 18" folding MacBook, maybe this is the step to the integrated tocu enabled macOS...
Or, I should be focusing on the unproven rumors of a 12" Surface Pro, as long as it is not much bigger than an 11" iPad Pro!