thedba

charlesn said:

melgross said:

Disgusting idea. It really seems that these who want macOS on an iPad, any iPad, haven’t given any thought to what that would be like.

Given that the M1 can run either OS, consider this: boot the iPad into macOS and you essentially get a 12.9” MacBook. Touch screen is disabled. Boot it into iPadOS and it runs like a regular iPad with touch screen operational. Instead of trying to merge the operating systems and functionality, keep them discrete and boot into one or the other. No worries about how this or that app is going to run in a different OS. 

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

Apple gets to make all the decisions for how a customer can use their iOS devices. Why should RAM be any different? Apple firmly believes that people are just not smart enough to make decisions like "this app is really important to my work so it should be able to use all the RAM." or "I need to manage my personal network so I am going to let this app see the MAC addresses so it can track and identify the devices I have connected to it." You absolutely can't make a decision like "I don't like all of Apple's restrictions so I will install this third party App Store."

qwerty52 said:

brauntj said:

thedba said:

5GB RAM-gate?

I bought the iPad, I should be able to use as much RAM as I want.

That’s why the iPad cannot be used for “real work”. 

Any other upcoming arguments I missed?

This is why we need a third party OS. Apple shouldn’t have a monopoly on their hardware platform like this. 

Very stupid argument.
Do you really think Apple is doing this without any reason, but just to make the user’s life miserable?
And in your imagination, how the third party OS is supposed to look like?

Rayz2016 said:

Carrying a hub used to bother me. Then I started working out. Now I hardly notice it.