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I appreciate the steel-man. A strong counter argument for me is that you actually can run any custom code on an iPad, as long as it's in a web-browser. This is
by ben-schaaf 2y ago
I appreciate the steel-man. A strong counter argument for me is that you actually can run any custom code on an iPad, as long as it's in a web-browser. This is very unlike an appliance where doing so is not possible. Clearly the intention is for arbitrary custom code to run on it, which makes it a personal computer and not an appliance (and should be regulated as such).
- freedomben 2y agoThat's a fair point, although (steel-manning) the "custom code" in the browser is severely restricted/sandboxed, unlike "native" code would be. So from that perspective, you could maybe expand it to be like a toaster that has thousands of buttons that can make for hyper-specific stuff, but can't go outside of the limits the manufacturer built in.