iPadOS 19 Rumored to Show Mac-Like Menu Bar When Connected to Magic Keyboard

“How curious it is,” Pooh said aloud, to nobody in particular, “that the iPad tries so very hard to be like the MacBook, but never quite manages to feel as settled and cozy.”

You see, the MacBook is like a warm armchair by the fire. You sit down, and everything is where it ought to be. Menus are at the top, folders behave like proper friends, and when you click, things listen. It's a sensible sort of magic.

The iPad, on the other paw, is always trying to do tricks—jumping and spinning and saying, “Look! I can be a computer too!” which is very sweet, but sometimes a bit too eager, like Tigger with too much juice.

“Wouldn’t it be rather nice if the iPad just let itself be a MacBook", Pooh pondered.

And then he had a second smackerel of honey, because thinking is hungry work.

Oh god, we don’t need on screen dropdown versions of cut/copy/paste, we need a reliable version of Files

Can we get multiple users please? Thank you

iPadOS foundation is very capable, but anything resembling full featured computer is intentionally disabled. How about allowing us to run full apps, virtual memory with swap, background tasks, JIT, compilers, command line, … All that would be possible if Apple would unlock the capabilities.

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Just an Apple keyboard? What about any other mice and keyboards? There's no technical reason my Logitech G915 mechanical keyboard and G703 mouse can't make use of a menu bar when a Magic Keyboard can.

After decades firmly entrenched in the Apple camp, I have moved to a 10th Gen Thinkpad Yoga running Unbuntu which is amazingly good w/ the touch screen When going back to my MBP, I often laugh at how natural it has become to use a good keyboard, trackpad, and touch screen on a highly portable device running Linux FGS. Mac OS on a MBP in comparison just has a lot of misses now in comparison. I could wish for Apple to provide what likely would be a superior option with its hardware, but facts we know... "touch screens on PCs are the Devil's handiwork" and "always protect shareholder value via App Store profits". Likely some others I missed. So iPad OS will become more Mac-like to appease the many, many current criticisms. iPads will never be MacOS-like enough to support app loading like we can on Macs (value argument), and we will never get a touchscreen UI on a MB portable (Devil's argument). Entrenched they are those C-Level execs. Apple makes great hardware -- the best still. Yet "Think Different" left the building A LONG TIME AGO. Sad.