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by chongli 2778 days ago
It's more than just code. A "real" computer lets you do so much by piecing together work from different applications. For example, you can use a text editor like vim to transform a CSV file with powerful tools like regular expressions and shell commands, then load the CSV into your spreadsheet to work on. Yes, you can use the files application on iOS to manage your files but all of the other applications tend to stick to keeping all their files in one place.

On iOS it's very hard to build your own custom workflow with a bunch of applications and other tools, the way you can on a desktop OS.
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scarface74 2778 days ago
It could probably be done with the Workflow app introduced in iOS 12 if you were so inclined that can stitch together different apps.
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chongli 2777 days ago
What workflow app? I'm on iOS 12.1 and I don't see a workflow app.
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scarface74 2777 days ago
Oh yeah. It’s called “Shortcuts” now. It was originally a third party app and was bought by Apple a little bit over a year ago and was given deeper hooks into the system.

https://workflow.is/

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