iPad users will miss out on third-party app stores, browser engines, and more
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#2> iPadOS on the iPad is a completely different platform in the eyes of Apple and the European Commission.
Is this correct, or is Apple making the distinction here?
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#3Suddenly it makes a lot more sense why Apple made a big deal about iPadOS being its own separate OS, even though the differences are so minimal.
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#4> iPadOS on the iPad is a completely different platform in the eyes of Apple and the European Commission. Is this correct, or is Apple making the distinction here?
Is what correct? Is iPadOS a different platform than iOS?
That's not an easy question to answer. It's a different OS, it has a different name, it runs on different devices, it has different features, it runs different apps.
But iPads ran "iOS" for many years, and iPadOS was clearly just a rebranding of the iOS that ran on iPads. On the other hand, iOS (then iPhoneOS) was announced as a "compressed and streamlined" version of OSX.
I don't think it's unreasonable to say that iPadOS is a different platform than iOS, but I do think that Apple is being very self serving by saying so in this context.
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#5Suddenly it makes a lot more sense why Apple made a big deal about iPadOS being its own separate OS, even though the differences are so minimal.
That must be it. It always felt super peculiar that they did this, and I really didn’t see the value in it for Apple, even from a marketing perspective. I 100% buy that we’ve just gotten to peak behind the curtain.
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#6Does anyone know how these new rules affect JIT/AOT compilers in apps?
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#7Suddenly it makes a lot more sense why Apple made a big deal about iPadOS being its own separate OS, even though the differences are so minimal.
It must be at least a little different since it is unable to run Calculator.
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#8> iPadOS on the iPad is a completely different platform in the eyes of Apple and the European Commission. Is this correct, or is Apple making the distinction here?
Is what correct? Is iPadOS a different platform than iOS? That's not an easy question to answer. It's a different OS, it has a different name, it runs on different devices, it has different features, it runs different apps. But iPads ran "iOS" for many years, and iPadOS was clearly just a rebranding of the iOS that ran on iPads. On the other hand, iOS (then iPhoneOS) was announced as a "compressed and streamlined" ve…
I think the question was framed around verifying the part where it claims the European Commission is said to agree with Apple that the 2 operating systems are separate.
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#9Suddenly it makes a lot more sense why Apple made a big deal about iPadOS being its own separate OS, even though the differences are so minimal.
It must be at least a little different since it is unable to run Calculator.
FYI: If you swipe down you can just type mathematical expressions like finder on OSX. It may be finder, but I don't know.
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#10Suddenly it makes a lot more sense why Apple made a big deal about iPadOS being its own separate OS, even though the differences are so minimal.
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