<story><title>Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/apple/2024/04/apple-must-open-ipados-to-sideloading-within-6-months-eu-says/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BillyTheKing</author><text>totally agree - the iPad Pro could be a great second coding&amp;#x2F;programming tool - I&amp;#x27;d love to justify buying myself one, but.. I just don&amp;#x27;t see a use-case if I can&amp;#x27;t work on it. I don&amp;#x27;t design stuff, don&amp;#x27;t really feel like I need a separate browsing device either</text></item><item><author>DCKing</author><text>The iPad App Store is perhaps an even more dysfunctional place than the iPhone in how much it holds hardware and use cases hostage to the manufacturer&amp;#x27;s vision. Just imagine how much more versatile the iPad Pro would be if only you could run Linux VMs on it in the moments you want to do anything remotely tinkery on an iPad.&lt;p&gt;Apple&amp;#x27;s hardware since the 2021 iPad Pro (with M1) has had the ability to do this. The iPads have the RAM (16gb on higher storage models), appropriate keyboard and trackpads, the works. Great hardware being held back by Apple&amp;#x27;s vision people weren&amp;#x27;t allowed to deviate from.&lt;p&gt;A straightforward reading of the DMA suggests that Apple is not allowed to restrict apps from using hardware features. Let&amp;#x27;s hope that means Parallels&amp;#x2F;VMware style VMs are possible without too much of a fight.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lutoma</author><text>I switched from an iPad to a Surface Go 3 running Fedora a while ago and it really transformed my tablet use. I mostly just watched Youtube videos and did some light browsing on my iPad, but never really any serious work. &lt;i&gt;Occcasionally&lt;/i&gt; I would ssh into other machines using apps like Blink, but even with the external keyboard the UX just feels ... off. Same for other apps that have IDE-like environments. They work, but they&amp;#x27;re never really great to use.&lt;p&gt;I was skeptical about getting a Linux tablet because of the worse battery life and less polished overall experience, but having a desktop Firefox with all add-ons, my text editor of choice, and the ability to open a terminal and run whatever I want really more than makes up for it (Plus GNOME is a pretty good tablet experience out of the box these days as long as you broadly stick to their &amp;#x27;official&amp;#x27; apps).</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/apple/2024/04/apple-must-open-ipados-to-sideloading-within-6-months-eu-says/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BillyTheKing</author><text>totally agree - the iPad Pro could be a great second coding&amp;#x2F;programming tool - I&amp;#x27;d love to justify buying myself one, but.. I just don&amp;#x27;t see a use-case if I can&amp;#x27;t work on it. I don&amp;#x27;t design stuff, don&amp;#x27;t really feel like I need a separate browsing device either</text></item><item><author>DCKing</author><text>The iPad App Store is perhaps an even more dysfunctional place than the iPhone in how much it holds hardware and use cases hostage to the manufacturer&amp;#x27;s vision. Just imagine how much more versatile the iPad Pro would be if only you could run Linux VMs on it in the moments you want to do anything remotely tinkery on an iPad.&lt;p&gt;Apple&amp;#x27;s hardware since the 2021 iPad Pro (with M1) has had the ability to do this. The iPads have the RAM (16gb on higher storage models), appropriate keyboard and trackpads, the works. Great hardware being held back by Apple&amp;#x27;s vision people weren&amp;#x27;t allowed to deviate from.&lt;p&gt;A straightforward reading of the DMA suggests that Apple is not allowed to restrict apps from using hardware features. Let&amp;#x27;s hope that means Parallels&amp;#x2F;VMware style VMs are possible without too much of a fight.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>d0mine</author><text>iPad (any model) with keyboard-cover can be used as a great portable ssh&amp;#x2F;mosh 
 terminal (eg with Termius app). I work in Emacs--most functionality is available via terminal.</text></comment>