Keep in mind that Microsoft spent 2 generations before converging on the current strategy: &#x27;non-Pro&#x27; Surfaces 1 and 2 were ARM-powered Windows RT devices that could only run Windows Store apps (similar to iPad). When noone seemed to want that, Microsoft went out and made &#x27;non-Pro&#x27; Surface 3 just a cheaper, slimmer, lower-powered device, running the same version of Windows as its bigger sibling; also <i>non-Pro</i> was released after the <i>Pro</i> and just after the newest Intel Atom chip: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ark.intel.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;85475&#x2F;Intel-Atom-x7-Z8700-Processor-2M-Cache-up-to-2_40-GHz" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ark.intel.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;85475&#x2F;Intel-Atom-x7-Z8700-Proc...</a><p>I actually expected the iPad Pro to support OS X apps; maybe via being powered by a new Apple Ax <i>frankenchip</i> that runs iOS ARM as well as x86 code (another payoff from the investment to custom chip design) and&#x2F;or by requiring to recompile with the latest XCode for the App Store (a payoff from the long investment in LLVM).<p>Maybe next year.