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Originally Posted by OtinG
Aren’t the M1 and A series chips both ARM based? If so then it shouldn’t be as bad as M1 taking the place of Intel chips. But there might be some issues for sure. I suspect Apple will have some big updates for iPadOS 15 to add more M1 capability and features for the Pro models. I would think that Apple should want to keep the programming of apps for A series chipped iPads and M1 chipped iPads very similar.
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It’s the same instruction set on both. The difference is M1 consolidates what used to be separate components (CPU plus RAM, GPU cores, Neural Engine cores).
Which is why M1 Macs have been able to run many iOS apps for some months. There are not going to be any problems running existing iOS apps.
WWDC should give a better idea of how to take better advantage of M1, either from developer perspective or from iPadOS 15 platform perspective.
One thing I’d like to see for iPadOS 15 (but not tied to M1): user Profiles, like macOS.