With all of the focus being on Apple Vision Pro in recent months, not to mention the arrival of the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro handsets, it's been easy to almost forget that Apple has an entire tablet lineup on sale. The lack of any new iPads throughout the entire 2023 calendar year — a first for Apple — hasn't helped matters, either. The company is now reportedly ready to refocus its energy on its various tablets with new hardware on the horizon. But part of the work Apple is doing will reportedly involve software retooling that will bring new desktop-class features into the mix.
It isn't unheard of for Apple to try and sell the iPad as a laptop-replacement device and it once centered its entire marketing campaign around the fact that tablets are real computers. They're great for doing more than watching YouTube and reading a book to be sure, but Apple knows that there is still work to be done. Part of that work reportedly includes bringing new desktop features to the iPad to try and give it a more grown-up feel, ditching the baby Mac app approach that has been an issue for iPad power users over the last decade and change.
