just make iPad more useful and support MacOS - it's not gonna canibalize Mac, they sale each year 2x more iPads than Macs and 12x more iPhones than Macs.

Am I the only one who does not want this? An iPad is an iPad. It's so simple that my old parents have no trouble figuring out how to use it.

By adding macOS to it, I can't get it for my parents anymore because it's way too complicated for them. That's bad for business for Apple since the iPad is designed to be a bigger iPhone.

But wait.. what if you can choose iPad/macOS mode? Ehh... so what should iPad hardware/software engineers optimize for? They're totally different use cases. The market for people wanting to run a hybrid iPad is likely much smaller than you think. Tech communities on the internet is loud but I'm going to guess that 95% of iPad users do not care/want macOS on it.

  make macbook Pro standard with 32GB RAM / 1TB drive (macbook air with 500GB) and cheaper upgrades. It's not like those chips are expensive. Better to sell 2x more devices with smaller margin than holding to your margin like virginity.

Macbook Pros already provide excellent value. Where else can you find the fastest and most efficient chips, outstanding high solution display, excellent metal build quality, keyboard, speakers, touchpad, and a polished OS in one? They make the margins on RAM/SSD upgrades. I have no problem with that. The base models provide outstanding value.

  make powerful Apple TV or cheaper Mac Mini for all users. Create a distributed computing platform that user can opt-in. Now you are competing with CloudFlare. Those devices normally do nothing during night but could generate/compute stuff, execute some lambda in sandbox, work as a proxy. Give 30-50% for device upgrades for such users that opted-in for 2 years.

Ok if you do that, you'd have to increase warranty cost, calculate complex formulas for electricity, bandwidth for profitability since each customer will have different parameters. I fail to see how this is more efficient than just doing things in the cloud. I don't think customers want this stuff. I think mac Minis are cheap enough. I got my M4 Mini for $500. It's a steal.