Of course, it’s hard to be a convertible mobile computer if there’s no way to control the device without a keyboard and trackpad. MacBooks are laptops, and that’s all they are allowed to be. While those PCs can be weird, they also offer a level of ergonomic flexibility that the Mac can’t. You can buy numerous Windows-based laptops that experiment with ergonomics in interesting ways that break the laptop paradigm of two permanently attached rectangles. While the iPad has always specialized in flexible ergonomics, the design of the MacBook line has been frozen in amber since the early 2010s. An iPadOS-based laptop might be worth trying, but it never will exist because it infringes on the Mac’s turf. Some fundamentals of iPadOS (like the audio subsystem, which can only play from a single app at a time and can’t record system or app audio) were built for the limited world of the iPhone and seemingly never revisited.Īnd, of course, even with full keyboard and trackpad support, the closest iPadOS has been allowed to come to a MacBook is with add-on accessories like the Magic Keyboard. Stage Manager is like Mac windowing, but more limited. But too often, the additions seem limited or partial in ways that serve to highlight how much more powerful the Mac is. When it works well, as it did with the 2020 addition of cursor support, it can be a triumph. Apple makes attempts to develop iPadOS into its own, with mixed results.

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