The iPad Pro and magic keyboard costs more than the MacBook Air. So apple would be doing pretty well if they could get MacBook users to buy an iPad.

and also weigh more than the MacBook Air

If macbooks were gone tomorrow, the ipad would not replace it. Very different use cases. Sure, if you took an ipad, put OSX on it, and glued it to the hinges of a macbook as the screen - then maybe it'd be very similiar. Not great performance or battery life, but similiar. But in no way am I getting work done on an ipad touchscreen with a little flimsy foldable keyboard and kickstand.

This is outdated info. The latest iPad Pro has the M1 chip, exactly the same as the MacBook. And it comes in 8/16gb ram.

The magic keyboard accessory apple sells for the iPad also turns it in to the same form factor as a laptop.

You very realistically could replace a MacBook with an iPad Pro and magic keyboard if apple let people run macOS on it.

Quite literally if an iPad Pro ran MacOS there is absolutely no reason why this couldn’t be the case.

Wouldn't be much of a laptop, good luck using it on your lap

It works about the same as my actual laptop. That is, uncomfortable but technically possible.

As an iOS (and Android) user and developer since about the iPad2, iPads interest me less the more iOS shifts toward being a general-purpose OS. I wouldn't buy one with macOS or equivalent on it, even if it'd been modified to work well on touch screens. At that point I'd probably get the cheapest large Android tablet I could find as a PDF reader, and just... not do the other stuff I do with iPads at all, I guess.