Still not a mac —

Despite speculation, we don't judge this means the iPad and Mac volition merge.

Samuel Axon - Oct 27, 2022 8:45 p.m. UTC

Enlarge / The 2021 12.9-inch iPad Pro.

Samuel Axon

Citing a idiosyncratic acquainted with the matter, The Information reports Apple plans to merchandise a 16-inch exemplary of the iPad Pro. Apple hopes to motorboat the merchandise successful the 4th fourth of adjacent year—likely astir the aforesaid clip successful 2023 that the M2 iPad Pro launched successful 2022.

In our estimation, a 16-inch iPad Pro would astir apt beryllium targeted specifically to originative professionals, and would astir apt not beryllium a mass-market merchandise successful the aforesaid mode arsenic different iPad models are. Think of it similar the Mac Pro oregon Pro Display XDR—a specialized merchandise for a constrictive but important audience.

The people buyers mightiness usage the caller 16-inch tablet with the Apple Pencil for a larger moving canvas successful apps similar Procreate, Affinity Designer, Adobe Illustrator, and truthful on.

The study did not notation immoderate peculiar oregon further features oregon pricing, which would apt beryllium rather steep.

This doesn't mean a Mac/iPad merge is coming

That said, The Information speculated whether this caller iPad with a laptop-sized surface means that Apple has plans to merge iPadOS and macOS.

In our view, though, that is highly unlikely, and the article's accent connected that misunderstands what the superior intent of this instrumentality would be. The article's header says this would "further blur the enactment with laptops," but if anything, the hand-drawn creation absorption of specified a tablet mightiness instrumentality it adjacent further distant from the emblematic laptop uses. For example, the iPad's facet ratio mightiness marque it unwieldy to usage successful a laptop format astatine that surface measurement, assuming it has the aforesaid facet ratio arsenic different iPad Pro models.

Apple spokespeople person been accordant successful debunking the thought that the institution plans to merge the Mac and iPad platforms, adjacent arsenic the Mac gains immoderate iPad-related features and the iPad gains heavier multitasking capabilities and the like. Yes, some platforms person Stage Manager, but that doesn't mean they volition merge.

They're made to service precise antithetic customers oregon astatine slightest precise antithetic uses—but that doesn't mean the 2 platforms and their users can't payment from immoderate cross-pollination of features.