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What exactly is missing from an iPad that would allow this to happen?
by cassianoleal 6y ago
What exactly is missing from an iPad that would allow this to happen?
- saagarjha 6y agoARM EL2.
- orangepanda 6y agoA touchbar
- jorisw 6y agoA mouse pointer. macOS was designed for the mouse / trackpad.
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoApple’s iPad Magic keyboard?
- soylentcola 6y agoI had an iPad2 which I jailbroke and used with a bluetooth mouse back then (mostly just because I could). I can't imagine it's still impossible for them to add similar functionality if it's the only thing holding it back from running macOS.
- CDSlice 6y agoiPad OS does have mouse support actually. I'm really not sure why they haven't made it possible to develop on iPads yet, I know I would get a 13 inch iPad Pro in a heartbeat if I could develop on it and sideload apps onto it. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211008 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211008
- reaperducer 6y agoA mouse pointer. iPads work with standard mice, and have an on-screen mouse pointer. I used mine with an old mouse I had lying around a couple of weeks ago. Works fine.
- cassianoleal 6y agoWhy would I need a pointer to run a container?
- headmelted 6y agoNothing. Some people have said ARM EL2, but virtualization in hardware isn't required if we can get a terminal with a jailed environment (akin to chroot) with brew. At worst you could spin up a Linux kernel in userspace if you needed to.
- saagarjha 6y agoYou might find iSH interesting, though it’s a bit slow.
- headmelted 6y agoI love iSH, but it frustrates me for being unnecessarily slow. It forces emulation of x86. If only it could cut QEMU out of the equation it would be perfect.
- saagarjha 6y agoiSH actually uses a homegrown emulator, not QEMU.
- headmelted 6y agoIn any case, I’d love iSH if it could just give me an arm64 workspace without emulation.
- saagarjha 6y agoSadly, this is a bit difficult to do on iOS.