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USB-C/Bluetooth Mouse and Keyboard support, including on extra screens when plugged in, would have been a killer feature.

I guess Apple thought it would cannibalise Mac sales too much?

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Wouldn't Apple be okay with everyone switching over to their own iOS based ARM products? They wouldn't have to deal with Intel for processors regular CPU's anymore and they wouldn't have to support an extra software architecture on the development side of things.

I think the Apple of old that was willing to make bold decisions, even at the expense of part of its own product range, is gone. Soon Apple will start selling printers again!

Its exactly as Steve Jobs predicted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBma82g3Uag

Pretty sure you can already directly connect a keyboard and second screen.

Does the second screen act as a second monitor or as a mirror?

Currently acts as a mirror. :-(

Android has the same limitation.

i.e. I can connect multiple displays with Android via hdmi and a usb adapter but Displaylink technical support suggested for an extended desktop I'd need to pester Google.

Probably worried too many apps would assume you have a mouse, so touch support would suffer from mixed-paradigm induced jank. See: the Surface. I wish they'd enable them only for remote desktop apps, though. Then I could sell my Macbook, get a Mac Mini, and remote in when I want to do desktop stuff.

What do you use for accessing macOS devices remotely? I've never had luck with VNC, very slow and choppy. The best solution I've found is chrome remote desktop, parallels remote, etc. Wondering if you found something that doesn't rely on an internet connection and can stay local to the LAN.

The built-in screen sharing for MacOS (just called "Screen Sharing" and distinct from the "Remote Desktop Connection" program) is pretty good. I think it's just VNC though, so if you've not found that acceptable then yeah, probably not gonna work for you. An X client on iOS would be pretty cool and someone might go to the trouble of making it if mouse support were added. Let me stick a BSD in a closet somewhere and client in from my iPad Pro with native-feeling X.

Apparently iPadOS added mouse support. It's currently an accessibility feature, but it's there.

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