$Apple (AAPL.US)$ Apple firmly believes that consumers will ...

Apple firmly believes that consumers will shift away from laptops in favour of tablet devices, offering more portability and a simpler user experience.

Apple Silicon will bring a more iPhone / iPad user experience to the Mac, so is this a start of the shift towards Apple’s ideal of tablets as computers?

The Microsoft Surface holds dominance over the growing niche spaces for devices halfway between laptops and tablets, but the Surface has a lot of shortcomings.

Even if Apple did create a more Mac OS user experience on the iPad, I don’t believe Apple could dominate the space between laptops and tablets.