iPad Pro
To me, the shift to USB-C signifies a fundamental change in how Apple is approaching the iPad and computing going forward. Those stupid &quot;what&#x27;s a computer&quot; ads make a little more sense. With USB-C, developers will support whatever I&#x2F;O standards they need to in iOS, and the ecosystem of monitors, keyboards, and peripherals we all bought for our laptops&#x2F;desktops will now begin to work with iOS too. This feature alone grows iOS into a much more powerful OS.<p>By this logic, it&#x27;s pretty clear Apple is killing macOS x86 dependency (and macOS itself) in two ways. 1. Shifting compute intensive workloads to A level chips. This started with the small stuff around &quot;security&quot; and ApplePay but today the video encode&#x2F;decode functionality in the T2 is a huge leap. This will extend into graphics next year (thank god cause fuck Intel&#x27;s integrated graphics) with APIs like Metal and going forward almost anything I&#x2F;O, Display, and every function outside of the CPU. #2 strategy is the iPad - by offering a compelling device that has all the features and capability of laptops without 2 decades of baggage.<p>We&#x27;ve all been so worried of the convergence of iOS and macOS, but after today I don&#x27;t see a macOS future. Sure it will move to Apple&#x27;s ARM chips, it will last another decade, but the shovel is out of the shed, it&#x27;s called the T2.<p>(Jailbreakers, we need you)