[imiric]

Bryan Lunduke recently made some good points about sideloading[1,2].

It's difficult to rationalize Apple's stance on this as anything but anti-competitive. They invented a new term they can use in their scare tactics that would obscure their goal of being the only company to profit from software sales on their platform.

Apple loves to market the iPad as the "modern computer", yet the ecosystem is so controlled and locked down that it can barely function as anything other than a media consumption device.

Good on the EU for pushing back on this.

[1]: https://www.lunduke.com/2021/06/apple-sideloading-is-the-dev...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mXExBK0SnQ

[musicale]

> Apple loves to market the iPad as the "modern computer", yet the ecosystem is so controlled and locked down that it can barely function as anything other than a media consumption device.

The iPad is an incredible device for creating digital art (Procreate + Apple Pencil) and electronic music (Korg Gadget and literally hundreds of great synth, DAW, and effect apps.)

[imiric]

That's pretty much the only productive work you can do with it. And even that is crippled. Can you export the files you create to an external hard drive and import it on a PC? Can you hook up an external monitor that doesn't just mirror the iPad display? A real Photoshop port has been promised for years and is still not available. I would like to do some real programming that doesn't require SSH or VNC. Why can't I run virtual machines?

So, yes, you can do some creative work in this limited environment. But it's nowhere near the flexibility a real computer would offer. And that's a shame given how powerful the actual hardware is.