Not to be mean but… are we supposed to be surprised by this?
It’s a jailed machine. The antithesis of a dev box.
Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake
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Re: Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake
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#43I’ve owned ipads for a long time and their productivity benefits compared to my Mac and iphone has never improved over the years. This year I’m selling my last ipad and won’t buy again until Apple throws a “real” OS at the thing. one of the worst things about ios is that files get copied for each app. Say I download a PDF in the Documents app and want to annotate it. As soon as I open it with NoteX, a copy of the PDF…
If apps are still handling files that way instead of being able to open documents from anywhere in your local files, iCloud Drive, it’s on the developer. Hasn’t been the case for years that this is the way files work, you should be able to save them to your Downloads folder (or elsewhere) and open them in whichever app you want.
Give PDF Viewer a look if you want better file handling: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pdf-viewer-annotation-expert/i...
Re: Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake
#44Using the iPad Pro as my main computer (2019)
https://hicks.design/journal/using-the-ipad-pro-as-my-main-c...
iPad Pro as Computer - one year on (2020)
https://hicks.design/journal/ipad-pro-as-computer-one-year-o...
Re: Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake
#45For me, the killer app for me has been sidecar… I work from home, and like to work outside in the summer. I’ve been using my MacBook Pro and my iPad as a second display via sidecar.
One unadvertised feature of this is that you can use the pencil as a mouse on your Mac in this configuration, which is handy for virtual whiteboard type stuff on your Mac where you’d normally be stuck with a mouse.
Re: Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake
#46Buying anything that does not run vanilla linux is a mistake.
Eventually every device on the planet will run it but companies that twart it should not be encouraged.
Re: Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake
#47It's not a bad idea if you go the SSH to a real machine route. You could even use it as an extra super portable monitor. But yeah no, just get a macbook Air.
Re: Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake
#48I don't see what people expect. The iPad is a portable touch-first device with a small screen and a locked-down operating system. The first two are by-design for the tablet form factor, so this will never change. And I don't expect Apple to open up the system, but it does not sound as if this was the main concern in this article. So why not simply get a MacBook Air, which is a completely capable, awesome coding devic…
Pretty much this
This sounds like a person caught in the hype
Re: Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake
#49I don't see what people expect. The iPad is a portable touch-first device with a small screen and a locked-down operating system. The first two are by-design for the tablet form factor, so this will never change. And I don't expect Apple to open up the system, but it does not sound as if this was the main concern in this article. So why not simply get a MacBook Air, which is a completely capable, awesome coding devic…
To have a locked down, consume first, small display device?
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#50This is going to become an interesting topic to watch as people go out and buy Vision Pro headsets on the basis that it's fine being $3500 because "it replaces my laptop". It was very disappointing that it's actually iOS based rather than MacOS. At least, if you throw a Macbook Air in your bag too in theory you will be able to bring it up as a full desktop, but it's super unclear how the integration will look.