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termux is pretty popular. Though android is locking down, making this kind of app difficult in future.
It’s pretty popular amongst a tiny fraction of the Linux developer community. They are not the type of people who are buying iPads or will be spending big within the Apple ecosystem.
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in a few seconds I can think of many many ways an ipad is crippled. - look at your data directly and back it up - backup and restore the entire device including apps - use ethernet through the lightning port instead of wifi - use general usb devices through the lightning port - wifi scanner (apple disallowed it in ios early-on) - tcpdump network traffic - change the wifi-off shortcut to actually turn it off (matching…
iPad Pro supports ethernet and general USB devices. And allowing apps to sniff network traffic defeats the entire security model of the device which many of us like. I want more privacy and security in my devices not less.
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By create you mean develop, right? The iPad is already one of the best creation tools out there for artists, musicians, photographers etc. I’d suggest the iPad is hampered more by the limits of iPadOS’ multitasking UI and it’s roots as a scaled-up phone OS - and the scarcity of truly pro-level software - rather than the App Store and not being able to sideload. In fact the only real reasons to sideload or jailbreak a…
No one really jailbreaks for cracked apps. There are many small reasons to jailbreak. Most apps are paid via in app purchases that can’t be cracked. Very few apps are paid and popular enough to be cracked and not crash upon attempting to use. It is something that may have been true a decade ago. The cliche needs to stop ever since in app purchases took over most spending.
Sadly, this will accelerate the ecosystem away from tools like procreate and affinity into “each brush is $1”.
You might be right, but I’m personally sad to see this playing out in a way that makes it worse.
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The new iPads literally have the same SOC as what are some of, if not the best consumer laptops on the planet currently. But what can you do with them? Not a heck of a lot, thanks to the walled garden that is iPad OS. If you ask me, that's a crying shame. I don't see how it hurts anyone to allow side-loading of apps on iOS devices. Even if you make it as hard as having a toggle behind a scary warning 2 layers deep in…
By create you mean develop, right? The iPad is already one of the best creation tools out there for artists, musicians, photographers etc. I’d suggest the iPad is hampered more by the limits of iPadOS’ multitasking UI and it’s roots as a scaled-up phone OS - and the scarcity of truly pro-level software - rather than the App Store and not being able to sideload. In fact the only real reasons to sideload or jailbreak a…
But these apps are still largely islands. Powerful pro workflows require multiple applications to be used together in interesting ways. With iPad that's impossible. You have an anemic file system, and strict limitations on what an app can do.
What I want is a proper *Nix layer, like I have on macOS. For instance, if I want to synchronize my files across multiple systems, I need my iPad app to have a built-in solution for that. I want to be able to run a daemon in the background to synchronize my creative work with an S3 bucket using a custom protocol of my choosing. That kind of customizability is just not possible on iPad, and it's a huge limitation.
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You don’t think Apple has a team of people trying to figure out what you can do with them? iPadOS isn’t designed to cripple the HW, its designed to extract the most from it. Its missing some traditional use cases
in a few seconds I can think of many many ways an ipad is crippled. - look at your data directly and back it up - backup and restore the entire device including apps - use ethernet through the lightning port instead of wifi - use general usb devices through the lightning port - wifi scanner (apple disallowed it in ios early-on) - tcpdump network traffic - change the wifi-off shortcut to actually turn it off (matching…
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in a few seconds I can think of many many ways an ipad is crippled. - look at your data directly and back it up - backup and restore the entire device including apps - use ethernet through the lightning port instead of wifi - use general usb devices through the lightning port - wifi scanner (apple disallowed it in ios early-on) - tcpdump network traffic - change the wifi-off shortcut to actually turn it off (matching…
iPad Pro supports ethernet and general USB devices. And allowing apps to sniff network traffic defeats the entire security model of the device which many of us like. I want more privacy and security in my devices not less.
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in a few seconds I can think of many many ways an ipad is crippled. - look at your data directly and back it up - backup and restore the entire device including apps - use ethernet through the lightning port instead of wifi - use general usb devices through the lightning port - wifi scanner (apple disallowed it in ios early-on) - tcpdump network traffic - change the wifi-off shortcut to actually turn it off (matching…
All of this is available if jailbroken. There aren’t many people caring too much about most of these. I personally enjoy parts of the first two. They aren’t deal breakers if I can’t jailbreak/root though.
The best result for customers is that there are alternate ways of putting apps on their own phones that do not require apple's permission. Then the customers that trust apple to protect them will just stay with the app store. The customers that try the alternate ways may find problems, but they will also find enormous positive changes in their ability to do new things on their phone. Personally, I would like the abil…
Most phone users aren’t interested in developing software on their phone. They aren’t interested in developing a better systemd. They have no idea what malware actually is. All that is going to happen if Epic gets their own store is Epic will be collecting the 30% rather than Apple, and the user will get apps that are poorly designed, chew battery, and don’t conform to the UX standards that Apple has set (eg: accessi…
Epic already has a store of its own, and it charges developers 12%.
Moreover, Apple already has thousands of apps that are poorly designed, chew battery, and don't conform to Apple UX standards. Part of the reason for the pushback against the Apple tax is that Apple is objectively failing to perform many of the tasks it claims as justifications for the tax.
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Which will happen pretty instantly since the stores will buy exclusives.
Will it, though? My expectation is that most apps will still want to be on the main App Store if they can, since installing a third-party app store still represents friction to the install experience. Perhaps in a more mature market where having several app stores on your phone is commonplace (assuming that even happens), we'll have an annoying situation of exclusives, but I don't expect that "instantly" or even remo…
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/epic-covering-refund-costs-...
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/08/why-one-pc-developer-...
https://www.vg247.com/2019/07/09/epic-games-wants-pc-games-m...
Given epic's current behavior on PC, I think it would be a given that they would also do this on another App Store.
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100% true. Legislating away the option to run a closed, manicured, walled-garden model is the true harm to consumer choice and freedom. I want my parents and non-techie friends and family to have the easy, stress-free, locked-down model that they enjoy and that works for them.
Your parents and non-techie friends and family won’t have to use alternative stores, no one will be forcing them to. And if Apple is so concerned about user security & privacy when it comes to alternative app stores, they should adjust their policies so that the apps most users want will see no reason not to be on the App Store.