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Originally Posted by OtinG
The Apple WWDC 2021 Keynote presentation will Take place June 7 at 10am PST.
Now that M1 iPad Pros have arrived, I surely hope they announce meaningful updates to the iPadOS to bring it fully into the 21st century. It is past time for a true laptop replacement in the form of an iPad, but iPadOS has to improve greatly to take advantage of the new chips and technology. It takes more than a new iPad Pro with lots of horsepower, it also take a much more capable and usable iPadOS.
As far as macOS goes, I’m finding it more and more difficult to get excited by their annual updates that just don't wow me any more. Maybe they will have something this year to make the M1 chips really shine.
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I doubt it. It's been rumored I think every year since the iPad Pro's were introduced that we'd see "pro" features like the ability to run Xcode on the iPad. I even stupidly bought a 10.5" Pro partly based on that. I feel like it runs the M1 because that's the only chip they have that makes sense as the A14 wouldn't seem very "pro" and they can recycle parts from all the M1 Macs. And an A14X would basically be an M1 anyways. The last several generations of iPad Pro were already faster than most laptops.
I think unless they are forced via. regulations or something to pry open iOS/iPadOS they are gonna leave it like this. I'm sure for some professional workflows like graphic designer, photographer, journalist, etc. an iPad Pro can completely replace a laptop or even be a better option. For my use case I can ironically get more done with a $100 Android tablet than a $2000 iPad Pro with 16GB of RAM.