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0 pointstomaskafka17d ago0 comments

I sign this essay. Apple has apparently multiple opposing goals for the iPadOS:

1. Make it powerful enough so that it can be sold as equivalent to macOS

2. Keep it locked like iOS, to be sold as secure alternative to computer for your parents and kids (which rules out all the workflow customization pros need)

3. Don’t make it powerful enough for people to stop buying Macs (Tim Cook’s biggest fear is of you not buying another slab of glass - no multiprofile for you, ever)

The intersection of these is an empty set.

I use my 2018 Pro as a great browser and YouTube machine, with zero intent to upgrade until the above situation changes. It’s useless for anything else, and even if I got M4 powerhouse, I wouldn’t be able to take it as a single machine for holiday for emergency Weathergraph hotfix or server debugging.

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cyberpunk17d ago

It’s got a bunch of decent ssh clients; I use mine quite often for this. With a hdmi capture thingy it’s also the display for a bunch of my rpis when they don’t boot etc..

Totally doable for travel debugging.

tomaskafkaOP17d ago

Yes, but what I meant was to have an IDE, where I could run and debug the stack, and deploy when happy.

Technically totally doable, just give me a VS Code + local Linux container (Apple Silicon is great at virtualization) to which it can tunnel.

In practice, impossible with Apple's limitations.

seabrookmx15d ago

VS Code online supports tunnels, or you can run your own "code-server" (OSS VS Code bundled in a docker container).

I daily drive VS Code remote SSH and had a (honestly inexplicable) thing for Chromebooks for a while. Before the included Linux environment let me install "real" VS Code, these options worked well for me.

cyberpunk17d ago

Ah fair enough, mostly i’m living in tmux/vim for those scenarios. Real dev work I’d want an IDE too, but seeing the Jetbrains splash on my holidays would ruin my holidays.

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nicbou17d ago

The iPad is really good for digital art.

tomaskafkaOP17d ago

Neither I, nor Craig has any issue with that :).

gambiting17d ago

>>Tim Cook’s biggest fear is of you not buying another slab of glass - no multiprofile for you, ever

In which case they already failed because I still see no reason to replace my M1 iPad Pro, it just powers through anything I throw at it including games.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

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cyberpunk17d ago

It’s got a bunch of decent ssh clients; I use mine quite often for this. With a hdmi capture thingy it’s also the display for a bunch of my rpis when they don’t boot etc..

Totally doable for travel debugging.

tomaskafkaOP17d ago

Yes, but what I meant was to have an IDE, where I could run and debug the stack, and deploy when happy.

Technically totally doable, just give me a VS Code + local Linux container (Apple Silicon is great at virtualization) to which it can tunnel.

In practice, impossible with Apple's limitations.

seabrookmx15d ago

VS Code online supports tunnels, or you can run your own "code-server" (OSS VS Code bundled in a docker container).

cyberpunk17d ago

Ah fair enough, mostly i’m living in tmux/vim for those scenarios. Real dev work I’d want an IDE too, but seeing the Jetbrains splash on my holidays would ruin my holidays.

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nicbou17d ago

The iPad is really good for digital art.

tomaskafkaOP17d ago

Neither I, nor Craig has any issue with that :).

gambiting17d ago

>>Tim Cook’s biggest fear is of you not buying another slab of glass - no multiprofile for you, ever

In which case they already failed because I still see no reason to replace my M1 iPad Pro, it just powers through anything I throw at it including games.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse