Apple's iPad Pro deserves more than iOS provides

Apple's iPad needs its own operating system to become, as CEO Tim Cook has said, "the clearest expression of our vision of the future of personal computing," some analysts argued today.

Cook's characterization -- made in September at the roll-out of the iPad Pro -- was taken up by Jan Dawson, principal analyst at Jackdaw Research, who lobbied for a new operating system largely based on iOS as it stands today.

"If [Cook's comment is] truly the case ... then the iPad Pro can't just borrow iOS from the iPhone," said Dawson in a piece published on Tech.pinions last week. "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."

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