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Re:iMac Pro Appears to Include A10 Fusion Chip for Always-On... by Dylan16807 on Sunday November 19, 2017 @03:53PM (#15735887)
A chromebook has windows and a file browser and a terminal. It doesn't fit that "toy computer" description at all.
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Re:iMac Pro Appears to Include A10 Fusion Chip for Always-On... by coldtea on Sunday November 19, 2017 @05:14PM (#15736243)
A macOS-iOS hubrid doesn't exist yet, so we don't know about what it will have.

That said, iOs has a file browser itself now (and of course it had windows from the start, if by "windows" you mean the ability to show UI apps. If you mean "overlapping windows", it has side-tiled ones, that are even better than overlapping). As for terminal, there are several for iOS as well.

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Re:iMac Pro Appears to Include A10 Fusion Chip for Always-On... by Dylan16807 on Sunday November 19, 2017 @06:00PM (#15736448)
> That said, iOS has a file browser itself now

Oh right, they did just add a file browser. Does that make it easy to access files from multiple apps? ...actually, upon looking into it more, it only shows files saved in a very specific way from apps with explicit support. It's 90% an icloud app, not a local file system app. That's not good enough.

> (and of course it had windows from the start, if by "windows" you mean the ability to show UI apps. If you mean "overlapping windows", it has side-tiled ones, that are even better than overlapping).

I mean multiple apps on screen, which is probably good enough in iOS at the moment.

> As for terminal, there are several for iOS as well.

Local terminals? The issue is not ssh clients, it's getting a shell open. The best I can find is https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/284556/can-i-run-a... with an answer of "none exist". And there's definitely not one with access to your files.

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