
With the announcement of iPadOS 26, Apple has finally done something it had seemed to be resisting for well over a decade: turning the iPad into a computer.
Apple has long sent mixed messages about the device, sometimes arguing that it is a computer, and other times arguing that iPads and Macs are two very different devices with two very different roles …
The iPad was not a computer
On the one hand, as far back as 2017 Apple ran the What’s a computer? ad campaign, essentially…