(there was a lot of bugs in the kiosk, for instance, no bounds checking on most inputs)
So, to answer you question, I did 10 years locked up without conviction. No trial yet. Maybe one day?
Guided Access controls are in the Accessibility settings. Apple has marketed the feature as one of convenience.
And I think a hard reboot, at least this used to be true, will also exit the mode. (Hold power and home button or power and volume button combo.)
Reboot "exit" to the passcode entry screen is less bad than the unlocked phone in this escape.
1) I wonder if the exploit here works with passcode lock on? I suspect it does not, because there’s no mention of passcode entry in the steps.
2) My rebuttal was going to be ‘but most kiosk devices don’t allow access to the power button’ - but this exploit requires that too.
I’ve broken out of it by the extremely complex protocol of swiping up by accident, although not recently. Maybe it’s been fixed.
Guided Access is buggy crap. I’ve seen children break out of Guided Access. I also regularly need to completely reboot an iPad to get Guided Access to work at all.
A MacBook, as good as it is for Office work, simply is not suitable on the construction site. If macOS was, say, licensed to Panasonic for their Toughbook line and it was only available to commercial customers, that would be a better arrangement.
Or, another example: iOS is fantastic, but trying to reconfigure an iPad might not be as good as just building a customized PoS system with iOS embedded. As long as these customized devices are for commercial sale only (and thus don't damage Apple's customer reputation)... why not?
Heck, if I'm really dreaming... a stripped-down iOS specifically for IoT devices could be a huge, huge market. Even if Apple only sold chips 5 generations out of date (like the A12), it would be more than enough to provide a smooth, fast, easily updatable, easy to develop for, theoretically low cost platform for smart devices.
Coming from Wintel, the vertical integration of Apple is a dream by comparison. Never had a single hour of downtime, compared to all the reformats and driver reinstalls and registry hacks and display glitches and such that I've experienced with Windows machines, even top end Razers, Lenovos, Asus, and Alienware/Dell.
Android was similarly terrible until the Nexus/Pixel lines, which again have first party control. Even the Play Edition and Motorola phones had issues not worth dealing with.
There's plenty of generic chips out there, and no name manufacturers making commodity garbage. Apple doesn't need to play in that market.
Performance? The benchmarks say the Mac is in another class. There are plenty of use-cases that can leverage it. I can't; Windows is absolutely higher performance for my use-cases. Maybe its the animations. Maybe its Rosetta, as great as it is? Its definitely Counter-Strike 2 removing Mac support; its definitely Nvidia hardware acceleration in CAD applications. People use their computers in different ways; not everyone is viewing 8 streams of 4K RAW footage in their video editor.
You weren't around in the 1990s...
Why? You could still buy the real thing. This would not detract anything from your user experience.
Apple is a hardware company, the OS is what makes it possible to use the hardware. One without the other does not make sense given that model. It's like saying "I wish Nintendo would license switch hardware and OS out to other people".
> Heck, if I'm really dreaming... a stripped-down iOS specifically for IoT devices could be a huge, huge market.
That’s effectively what runs the HomePods and AppleTV.
Have you seen Zephyr? [0]
They don't even let the owners of their iphones run their own software without asking permission.
I don't think they're suggesting go full on wintel with every major computer manufacturer having a free for all making a same but slightly different styling and slightly different quality.
