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How many times must we have this same conversation? There are three answers. 1. “I would totally switch to an iPad if it could run MacOS, making it a Mac inst
by wilsonnb3 4y ago
How many times must we have this same conversation?
There are three answers.
1. “I would totally switch to an iPad if it could run MacOS, making it a Mac instead of an iPad and therefore having little relevance to this conversation”
2. “My workflow includes things that iOS will likely never allow (installing whatever program you want, a real shell, etc) and therefore I cannot switch to an iPad and probably consider them to be an inferior device with no real purpose”
3. “I just do lightweight stuff like web browsing and email or things that have well respected native apps like photo editing, so yeah an iPad is fine”
- Dylan16807 4y agoI don't think "instead of" is right for number 1, because a lot of those people want "mac with removable keyboard" and that is not a product you can get right now.
- Jtsummers 4y ago4. It did replace my laptop because I use remote computing resources and there was no meaningful difference between the iPad and any other mobile computer modulo screen size.
- diehunde 4y agoHow do you interact with those resources though? I still haven't found any decent terminal or editor to work from the iPad.
- tsuujin 4y agoI use Blink shell to SSH (well, Mosh) into a remote Linux shell and work from there. It works surprisingly well and I can get emacs/vim/whatever running without issue.
- Jtsummers 4y agoBasically this, though Blink supports using VS Code now but I haven't explored that much yet. Also Working Copy for using git to bring code to the iPad and I've been mostly happy with Textastic as an editor if I edit things locally. And Blink + mosh + tmux + Tailscale has been an effective combination. https://docs.blink.sh/advanced/code https://docs.blink.sh/advanced/code