Apple held its yearly conference recently and fans were left wondering as the event only witnessed the release of iPad Mini 4 and iPad Pro, wherein there were no mentions about the latest iPad Air 3. (Photo : Reuters)
After a closer look at the new iPad Pro, an analyst believes that Apple should create a new operating system that will optimize both touch and physical keyboard features. The Apple iOS operating system was created for touchscreen devices and the new iPad Pro capitalizes on that feature while at the same time supports physical keyboard functionality.
Apple CEO Tim Cook described the iPad Pro as "the clearest expression of our vision of the future of personal computing."
The idea of creating a new operating system just for the iPad was conceived by Jackdaw Research principal analyst Jan Dawson. In a statement posted on Techpinions, Dawson said, "It needs to have a dedicated operating system designed first and foremost for this device and not primarily for the installed base of 500 million or so iPhones in the world."
Dawson thinks that the iPad Pro lacks first-rate support the optional physical keyboard. The analyst added that the iPad Pro has a lot of aspect to improve like home screen design and multi-app windowing.
The iOS platform has been optimized several times in order to provide a new and separate platform which Apple's other devices can use. The most recent is the watchOS for the Apple Watch and tvOS for the Apple TV. Both operating systems, despite modeled from iOS, have vastly different form factors and optimized user interface.
In this aspect, Dawson said that Apple could optimize a new operating system just for the iPad which he called padOS. By relying on the iOS platform in creating features for the iPad, some of these features tailored for the tablet are wasted when applied to a smartphone and vice versa, according to Computer World.
