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They never opened up iPad for general purpose computing. iPad and iPhones for that matter could easily power laptop and desktop devices if Apple wanted them to
by bottlepalm 3y ago
They never opened up iPad for general purpose computing. iPad and iPhones for that matter could easily power laptop and desktop devices if Apple wanted them to.
- wkat4242 3y agoWell if you ask Apple they did. It's basically what the iPad Pro is. Apple certainly views the iPad as a general computing device. Apple doesn't give you full access to your device, but they are also adding a lot of strings attached on Macs, with their notarisation, immutable OS partitions etc. Sure, you can still turn it off on Mac but it's basically an all-or-nothing, so you have to turn of all protections just to change one little thing. And you lose functionality, like the ability to run iOS apps: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/if-you-disable-sip-all-you-ios-apps-will-stop-working-on-your-m1.2269661/ https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/if-you-disable-sip-all-... Unfortunately the vendor deciding what you can and cannot do on your computing device is basically the "new model" which they managed to sneak onto us because there was very little opposition to it when iOS was introduced. It also enabled the app store rent seeking of course which was the main point.
- bottlepalm 3y agoCan I install VS Code, Apache, PHP, SQL, use a terminal, VMs, etc.. on an iPad Pro? No? It’s not general purpose computer. Vendors deciding what we run never took off for general purpose computing. Apple getting away with worse business practices than Microsoft in the 90s is ironic.