alt Hacker NewsWe keep putting more powerful chips into phones, and giving them bigger screens, but we never turn them into useful computers. Why is this?
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That seems to be entirely the purpose of this device. Instead of just a larger display, it's meant to provide a "second monitor" for multitasking or more context.
With terminal emulators, tailscale, local and remote agents, there's never been so much computing capability accessible from your pocket before.
The moment apple ship MacOS on their iPads, sales for their macbooks will all but collapse.
You can get something quite useable these days by plugging a pixel into a USB dock with a monitor and a keyboard + mouse
Artificial limitations open many new avenues for new and exciting revenue streams.
This is the biggest disappointment, imagine running a full blown "Ubuntu Touch" that gives you the freedom of Linux with full root access. This is the biggest failure of legislation in the 21st century so far that has enabled a strict Android/iOS duopoly.
I sincerely hope one day we can free these hardware devices from the shakles of their software and run anything that's possible.
Until such a time iOS devices are strictly off limits until at least a grapheneOS can run iOS at a minimum.
Apple's lack of vision and fear of innovation. Jobs is gone. We're back to 90s Apple. Dumb ideas become dumb products, and no one has the balls to say, No.