Can I install Visual Studio Code, Python, and a Web server on an iPad? Can I install unsigned software on an iPad that didn't come from the Apple Store without the hassle of Sideloading? Can I dual boot an iPad to an alternate OS for software that doesn't run under padOS? Can I plug an iPad into the network using gigabit ethernet? Can I author optical media using an iPad?
If Apple heads down this road they might as well rename the company Nokia and switch to handsets only.
A better plan might be integrating the iPad into the screen of a MacBook then you have a 2-in-1 device. Just pop the screen off and consume, then pop it back on to do work.
Mark my words, VR and AR and gimmicky limited use case contrivances similar to 3D Television. The optical quest glasses are cool, but I am not going to wear them all day.
Right now VR is good for games, but AR will only really take off when it's integrated into normal-looking glasses. Nobody wants to do AR through a looking glass (iPhone/iPad).
Mark my words, VR and AR and gimmicky limited use case contrivances similar to 3D Television.
Silly comparison. 3D television offered users nothing beyond a dimension of existing content they were already consuming. VR adds a whole new set of possibilities for gaming. AR adds a whole new set of possibilities for industries. Both of them have very real world use cases, 3D TV did not, not the least because the technology behind it was utter rubbish.
Can I install Visual Studio Code, Python, and a Web server on an iPad? Can I install unsigned software on an iPad that didn't come from the Apple Store without the hassle of Sideloading? Can I dual boot an iPad to an alternate OS for software that doesn't run under padOS? Can I plug an iPad into the network using gigabit ethernet? Can I author optical media using an iPad?
If Apple heads down this road they might as well rename the company Nokia and switch to handsets only.
A better plan might be integrating the iPad into the screen of a MacBook then you have a 2-in-1 device. Just pop the screen off and consume, then pop it back on to do work.
Mark my words, VR and AR and gimmicky limited use case contrivances similar to 3D Television. The optical quest glasses are cool, but I am not going to wear them all day.
Apple is alleging no such thing.
But you can certainly plug your iPad with USB-C into a GigE network, and even browse SMC shares. See this. You might be surprised how far iPadOS has come (and this is only the beginning).
While I agree a laptop is usually more suited to creation than a tablet, all your examples seem to imply some kind of system-level access is needed. Maybe that's true for your job in particular but the vast majority of jobs aren't in system administration/development and don't have any admin privileges anyway. It's not like an accountant got any business messing with the accounting software. For a person driving full time for Uber to make a living that's his work, even if all he needs is an app on a phone.
The ipad is both. How serious of a creator are you? Do you have a home server with fast internet? Do you run WebApps? Guacamole? Heck you can stream anything with splashtop (games etc with kb/controller support), fast internet permitting. I am not trying to defend Apple here, they are against right to repair and are actively sabotaging that with internal securities between inputs and outputs that are just ludicrously anti-consumer and nuts! Apple can suck it. But in the same token, these devices (any phone/t
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Consumption vs. Creation, Life in a Walled Garden (Score:4, Insightful)
iPad = Consumption Device
Laptop = Creation Device
Can I install Visual Studio Code, Python, and a Web server on an iPad?
Can I install unsigned software on an iPad that didn't come from the Apple Store without the hassle of Sideloading?
Can I dual boot an iPad to an alternate OS for software that doesn't run under padOS?
Can I plug an iPad into the network using gigabit ethernet?
Can I author optical media using an iPad?
If Apple heads down this road they might as well rename the company Nokia and switch to handsets only.
A better plan might be integrating the iPad into the screen of a MacBook then you have a 2-in-1 device.
Just pop the screen off and consume, then pop it back on to do work.
Mark my words, VR and AR and gimmicky limited use case contrivances similar to 3D Television. The optical quest glasses are cool, but I am not going to wear them all day.
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Right now VR is good for games, but AR will only really take off when it's integrated into normal-looking glasses. Nobody wants to do AR through a looking glass (iPhone/iPad).
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Mark my words, VR and AR and gimmicky limited use case contrivances similar to 3D Television.
Silly comparison. 3D television offered users nothing beyond a dimension of existing content they were already consuming. VR adds a whole new set of possibilities for gaming. AR adds a whole new set of possibilities for industries. Both of them have very real world use cases, 3D TV did not, not the least because the technology behind it was utter rubbish.
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iPad = Consumption Device
Laptop = Creation Device
Can I install Visual Studio Code, Python, and a Web server on an iPad?
Can I install unsigned software on an iPad that didn't come from the Apple Store without the hassle of Sideloading?
Can I dual boot an iPad to an alternate OS for software that doesn't run under padOS?
Can I plug an iPad into the network using gigabit ethernet?
Can I author optical media using an iPad?
If Apple heads down this road they might as well rename the company Nokia and switch to handsets only.
A better plan might be integrating the iPad into the screen of a MacBook then you have a 2-in-1 device.
Just pop the screen off and consume, then pop it back on to do work.
Mark my words, VR and AR and gimmicky limited use case contrivances similar to 3D Television. The optical quest glasses are cool, but I am not going to wear them all day.
Apple is alleging no such thing.
But you can certainly plug your iPad with USB-C into a GigE network, and even browse SMC shares. See this. You might be surprised how far iPadOS has come (and this is only the beginning).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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While I agree a laptop is usually more suited to creation than a tablet, all your examples seem to imply some kind of system-level access is needed. Maybe that's true for your job in particular but the vast majority of jobs aren't in system administration/development and don't have any admin privileges anyway. It's not like an accountant got any business messing with the accounting software. For a person driving full time for Uber to make a living that's his work, even if all he needs is an app on a phone.
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I am not trying to defend Apple here, they are against right to repair and are actively sabotaging that with internal securities between inputs and outputs that are just ludicrously anti-consumer and nuts! Apple can suck it. But in the same token, these devices (any phone/t