IPAD is a full computer now

But Apple was heading in this direction for a while. In 2020, the magic keyboard brought an additional outlet and a full tracking plate to the iPad. Then in 2022, the company presented the support of the external offer, and finally, in 2024 update to iPad ProsThe webcam was transferred in photo mode. But this year’s update really seems to reach the turning point. Apple, the hypothesis, was also truly sold in two smart ways.

First, most iPad users may never realize that the Windowing feature is present. Like many deeper iPad features, Windowing is optional and virtually hidden. Open an application on your iPad, and still virtue to a full screen. It seems likely that the average person will never notice a small change icon in the lower right corner of the applications. This is an important design decision, because it maintains the basic identity of the iPad as a simpler interface.

Second, Apple enthusiastically not indicated these new elements as a Mac similar to the keyword, instead described it as “familiar”. It even diverged iPados and MacOS, regardless of each other within the presentation, in order not to draw attention to the similarity of these two producers. Apple will never want to move two of its products against each other, and it has always guaranteed that there is a reason for someone to own the iPad and Mac. But with iPados 26, let’s be real: this requires some dangerous cognitive dissonance now.

Windows TILED in iPados 26.

As a matter of courtesy Apple

I do not suggest that the iPad will replace MacBook Pro. People who really need this additional performance will always flow to those more powerful Mac devices. But what about the most popular laptop from Apple, MacBook Air?

The iPad Pro and MacBook Air have always been confused in prices and specifications – significantly, there is a risk of strengthening their Apple products. I don’t doubt that Apple will remain both for the longest possible period, but I feel more inclined than ever to compare the two directly. This is more healthy because the iPados update will be available on iPad and the main iPad mini when it is officially presented later in this fall.

Therefore, does all this mean that the appropriate union between iPados and MacOS is in business? Or what about MacBook touch screen? In the past, Apple categorically mentioned that it has no plans to integrate its operating systems. This was an advertisement that got chants from the audience again WWDC in 2018. However, despite the extent that these concepts brought seven years ago, it seems that anything is possible at this stage.

All Apple announced at WWDC 2025

From the new liquid glass interface to the features that resemble the upcoming Mac to iPad, here are all news from the WWDC keyword on Monday.