[saagarjha]

SSH only works when you have a network connection.

[leibwiht]

You also need another computer, which kind of defeats the purpose. That's like saying you don't need wine when you have VNC.

[anticensor]

You have something called loopback.

[saagarjha]

…which requires your device to listen to SSH connections, right? This isn't something your iPad is doing.

[anticensor]

You would jailbreak your iThing and install ssh server.

[saagarjha]

If you're jailbroken, you can just spawn a shell. No need to do a SSH loopback dance.