I was mostly happy with Apple’s various announcements this year. But to say I was disappointed with the iPadOS 18 update introduced at June’s Worldwide Developer Conference is an understatement.
Sure, iPadOS has a lot of cool new features, but there were few substantial changes to multitasking or the Stage Manager feature of the operating system.
And that’s a major disappointment for a lot of folks like me who would like to use the M4 iPad Pro as their main computer for both play AND work. But the incredible powerful tablet is hobbled by iPadOS, and Apple apparently has no interest in changing that.
Personally, I’d love to see the iPad Pro renamed the Apple Pad and run a touch version of macOS. The non-pro tablets could still be dubbed iPads and run iPadOS. If not that, Apple should make some major enhancements to iPadOS to make in a “pro” operating system for an iPad Pro.
