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Why would you use an ipad for linux when you pay triple what you should for the tablet to get Apple's OS on it? Must be just a challenge since you don't own you

Why would you use an ipad for linux when you pay triple what you should for the tablet to get Apple's OS on it? Must be just a challenge since you don't own your tablet (AKA root).

m463 6y ago
the website says "With hardware becoming more and more powerful every year, obsolete iPads (according to Apple) should be allowed to continue to serve a purpose."
- vaccinator 6y ago
  > obsolete iPads (according to Apple) should be allowed to continue to serve a purpose props to apple for pushing linux (just kidding)
saagarjha 6y ago
Apple's tablets are essentially the only ones worth buying; nobody really makes good ones these days.
- vaccinator 6y ago
  lol... you must be a stock holder
- tluyben2 6y ago
  The latest Samsung Tab is pretty good; did you try it?
  - saagarjha 6y ago
    Not the latest one, no. Does it still support DeX and such?
  - vetinari 6y ago
    Even the previous one is still pretty good (satisfied Galaxy Tab S6 owner here).
dredmorbius 6y ago
Among other factors: standardisation of form factors providing a useful hardware accessory market. Tablets of and by themselves are pretty, but not especially useful. aa folio keyboard combination (case with integrated keyboard) is a game-changer ... but must be specifically fit to every individual tablet size, which Android device manufacturers have insisted on not standardising. Desktop systems need only agree on connector ports, tablet design requires agreement on all dimensions of the tablet. And nobody's doing that in Android land. https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/lqgtwy_rhsfbdh5cdxb1rq https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/lqgtwy_rhsfbdh5cdxb1rq (There are othher grievous problems with Android, I'm focusing on the physical here.) Apple's iPads, at least, offer a set of fixed sizes and are (for now) ensuring matching keyboards through third-party vendors. Many of those keyboards are crippled for Linux use (missing critical keys, such as esc, or entire rows, as with function or numeric keys), but there are at least a few options. Apple are also providing extensive onboard storage up to 1 TB or more), where Android offerings are still often only a few GB. The latter is insufficient for my primary use: as a portable text library. (128 GB is about the minimum useful storage for this). Audio, image, or video work is even more constrained. The reader function is where tablets shine over laptops, at least in form. The latter have compute power and flexibility, but displays are unsuited to reading, especially at 9:16 ratios: too short to read portrait, too small to display 2-up readably, and incapable of rotating in most cases. A tablet in portrait mode is a reasonably good reading device. Except that the OS and app infrastructure are utterly unsuited. This is a long-standing complaint, and I'm seeing little progress. Google have no interest in breaking free of advertising-based captive markets, Apple ... I don't know why, but are similarly brain damaged. It's the war on general-purpose computing. From at least two fronts.

Why would you use an ipad for linux when you pay triple what you should for the tablet to get Apple's OS on it? Must be just a challenge since you don't own your tablet (AKA root).

m463 6y ago

the website says "With hardware becoming more and more powerful every year, obsolete iPads (according to Apple) should be allowed to continue to serve a purpose."

vaccinator 6y ago
> obsolete iPads (according to Apple) should be allowed to continue to serve a purpose props to apple for pushing linux (just kidding)

saagarjha 6y ago

Apple's tablets are essentially the only ones worth buying; nobody really makes good ones these days.

vaccinator 6y ago
lol... you must be a stock holder
tluyben2 6y ago
The latest Samsung Tab is pretty good; did you try it?
- saagarjha 6y ago
  Not the latest one, no. Does it still support DeX and such?
- vetinari 6y ago
  Even the previous one is still pretty good (satisfied Galaxy Tab S6 owner here).

dredmorbius 6y ago

Among other factors: standardisation of form factors providing a useful hardware accessory market. Tablets of and by themselves are pretty, but not especially useful. aa folio keyboard combination (case with integrated keyboard) is a game-changer ... but must be specifically fit to every individual tablet size, which Android device manufacturers have insisted on not standardising. Desktop systems need only agree on connector ports, tablet design requires agreement on all dimensions of the tablet. And nobody's doing that in Android land. https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/lqgtwy_rhsfbdh5cdxb1rq https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/lqgtwy_rhsfbdh5cdxb1rq (There are othher grievous problems with Android, I'm focusing on the physical here.) Apple's iPads, at least, offer a set of fixed sizes and are (for now) ensuring matching keyboards through third-party vendors. Many of those keyboards are crippled for Linux use (missing critical keys, such as esc, or entire rows, as with function or numeric keys), but there are at least a few options. Apple are also providing extensive onboard storage up to 1 TB or more), where Android offerings are still often only a few GB. The latter is insufficient for my primary use: as a portable text library. (128 GB is about the minimum useful storage for this). Audio, image, or video work is even more constrained. The reader function is where tablets shine over laptops, at least in form. The latter have compute power and flexibility, but displays are unsuited to reading, especially at 9:16 ratios: too short to read portrait, too small to display 2-up readably, and incapable of rotating in most cases. A tablet in portrait mode is a reasonably good reading device. Except that the OS and app infrastructure are utterly unsuited. This is a long-standing complaint, and I'm seeing little progress. Google have no interest in breaking free of advertising-based captive markets, Apple ... I don't know why, but are similarly brain damaged. It's the war on general-purpose computing. From at least two fronts.